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Jean Paul Gaultier · Est. 2018

Scandal By Night

The honey announces itself immediately—not drizzled but viscous, darkened with a faint animalic edge that makes the sweetness provocative rather than innocent.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2018
Statusenriched
Scandal By Night — Jean Paul Gaultier
2018 · Fragrance
hon·van·ton·tub
Rating
4.2
2.7k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 9 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.

  • Honey
    90
  • Vanilla
    85
  • Tonka
    80
  • Tuberose
    75
  • Amber
    50

By the editors · 2 min readThe honey announces itself immediately—not drizzled but viscous, darkened with a faint animalic edge that makes the sweetness provocative rather than innocent. Tuberose rises through it, fleshy and narcotic, while orange blossom adds a brief citric brightness that quickly surrenders to the composition's heavier appetites.

As it settles, tonka bean and vanilla build a creamy, almost edible warmth, grounded by sandalwood and patchouli that keep the sweetness from collapsing into dessert territory. The white musk floats through the base, smoothing edges without stripping character. There's a calculated sultriness here, a fragrance that wears darker and closer to the skin than its predecessor.

This is for evenings when subtlety feels unnecessary—unapologetically sweet, unambiguously sensual, and entirely comfortable with both.

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

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap