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Jean Paul Gaultier · Est. 1999

Fragile

Fragile opens with an unusual combination: ginger and star anise alongside Bulgarian rose and bergamot, the spice and citrus creating an almost culinary brightness before the florals reveal themselves.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released1999
Statusenriched
Fragile — Jean Paul Gaultier
1999 · Fragrance
tub·jas·ros·van
Rating
4.1
1.6k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.

Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.

  • Tuberose
    65
  • Jasmine
    60
  • Rose
    55
  • Vanilla
    55
  • Amber
    55

By the editors · 2 min readFragile opens with an unusual combination: ginger and star anise alongside Bulgarian rose and bergamot, the spice and citrus creating an almost culinary brightness before the florals reveal themselves. The heart is a grand white-floral statement: tuberose creamy and dense, jasmine narcotic, ylang-ylang banana-floral, iris adding chalk and root, rose threading through everything. Cinnamon, amber, and vanilla in the base give a warm spiced sweetness that anchors the florals in oriental territory. A Gaultier fragrance that matches its surrealist bottle — packed with character, unapologetically maximalist, early-2000s floral at its most elaborate.

Filed: Jean Paul GaultierSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap