Gaultier² (2005)
The original Le Male's DNA is here—lavender, vanilla, mint—but pushed into deliberate exaggeration, as if the bottle's amplified torso means the juice inside must match.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Vanilla60
- Soft Spicy50
- Powdery50
- Caramel
The note pyramid
- Ambergris
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe original Le Male's DNA is here—lavender, vanilla, mint—but pushed into deliberate exaggeration, as if the bottle's amplified torso means the juice inside must match. It opens brighter and more aromatic than its predecessor, with sharper mint cutting through the familiar fougère structure, then quickly sweetens into a caramelized vanilla that borders on gourmand territory.
What develops is less the barbershop sensuality of Le Male and more of a candy-shop interpretation: sweeter, louder, less interested in subtlety. The woods feel thin, letting the mint-vanilla accord dominate from start to finish. It reads young, unabashedly synthetic in the way early-2000s masculines often were, designed for projection over nuance.
For those who found Le Male too restrained or who simply want something sweeter and more immediate, this delivers. It's fragrance as billboard—bold, unapologetic, built for attention rather than intimacy.
Scent twins
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