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Jean Paul Gaultier · Est. 2022

Le Male Pride Edition

Le Male Pride Edition opens with a jolt of citrus brightness—yuzu's sharp, almost piney freshness colliding with the sweeter tang of blood orange.

ConcentrationFragrance
Formasculine
Released2022
Statusflagged
2022 · Fragrance
mus·ora·lem·iri
Rating
2.5
0.7k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 4 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.

  • Musk
    40
  • Orange
    35
  • Lemon
    15
  • Iris Powder
    10

By the editors · 2 min readLe Male Pride Edition opens with a jolt of citrus brightness—yuzu's sharp, almost piney freshness colliding with the sweeter tang of blood orange. It's less juicy than you'd expect, more zesty and metallic, like cutting into fruit under cold fluorescent light. The initial burst doesn't linger long before neroli and orange blossom soften the edges, bringing a more pillowy, petaled warmth to the composition.

As it settles, the musk becomes increasingly present, though it's clean and skin-close rather than animalic. The floral notes don't entirely disappear but merge into something abstract and diffuse. What remains is a softly radiant aura that hovers between fresh and warm, never fully committing to either.

This is Le Male stripped of its usual lavender-vanilla swagger, replaced by a sunnier, more transparent character. It wears casually and fades relatively quickly, making it more approachable for warm weather or anyone put off by the original's intensity.

Filed: Jean Paul GaultierSillage · vol. I