olivier gillotin
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
Island Palm Beach
Amalfi Citrus
Higher Black
Fath pour l'Homme
Cristobal
A fig leaf opens the composition with green, slightly bitter sharpness, tempered by bergamot's softness.
Polo Red Intense
Polo Red Intense opens with a jolt of saffron and citrus, bright but tinged metallic, like striking a match in cold air.
Fougère d’Argent
A silvered fougère in the classical mold, filtered through contemporary restraint.
Tobacco Vanille
Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille opens with a plush, almost edible sweetness—imagine pipe tobacco dusted with vanilla powder and dried fruit, rich without being syrupy.
Tobacco Oud
The opening announces itself with whiskey-barrel richness—dried tobacco leaf steeped in resinous oud, neither raw nor polished but somewhere darkly in between.
Vert des Bois
Vert des Bois opens with an unexpected pairing: tart plum skin and cool anise, neither sweet nor cloying, but oddly mineral and green.
Higher
Higher opens with an airy brightness—pear and citrus lifted by basil's herbal coolness, like standing in an orchard at dawn.
Lavender Extreme
Lavender Extreme opens with a bright citrus flash—lemon and violet lifting the lavender up before it settles into something richer and stranger.
Noir
The first spray is all violet and pink pepper—a dusty, slightly metallic floral sharpness that feels like crushed petals and cool air.
Fougère Platine
Fantasy Naked
Ed Hardy Love & Luck for Men
Orange, cardamom, and bergamot open together in a bright, lightly spiced accord — the citrus forward and accessible, the cardamom providing warm depth from the first moment.
Black Diamonds
Black Diamonds opens with a bright, effervescent trio—juicy pear sweetness tempered by pink pepper's mild warmth and bergamot's citrus clarity.
Polo Red
**Polo Red** opens with a bright burst of grapefruit that quickly gives way to its savory core.
5th Avenue Gold
Ed Hardy Born Wild For Men
Eternity Eau Fresh For Women
300 Km/h Quantum
Notorious
Notorious opens with a sharp jolt of pink pepper that feels almost metallic against sweet blackcurrant, like fruit dusted with gunpowder.
Midnight Heat Beyoncé
Midnight Heat opens with a soft, bruised plum that feels more twilight than tropical—ripe but restrained, almost smoked at the edges.
Midnight Heat
Midnight Heat opens with a plush, almost wine-dark plum that feels richer and less sweet than typical celebrity fragrances suggest.
5th Avenue After Five
The opening bursts with dark plum and crisp bergamot, a duet that feels both tart and sweet, like the first sip of something forbidden after work hours.
Heat Beyoncé
Heat opens with a haze of ripe peach and magnolia petals, neroli lending a faint citrus spark that keeps the sweetness from overwhelming.
Heat
The opening is fruit-forward and bright—peach and neroli mingle with a creamy magnolia that keeps the sweetness from tipping into syrup.
Far Away Rebel & Diva
Far Away Rebel & Diva opens with pink pepper and lychee — a pairing that reads as bright and slightly exotic, the pepper adding enough prickle to keep the sweetness from going flat.