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Jean Paul Gaultier · Est. 2022

Scandal Pour Homme Le Parfum

Scandal Pour Homme Le Parfum takes the caramel-honey framework that made the original a commercial touchstone and amplifies it without losing the warmth that earned it its following.

ConcentrationParfum
Formasculine
Released2022
Perfumerunknown
Statusenriched
Scandal Pour Homme Le Parfum — Jean Paul Gaultier
2022 · Parfum
ton·car·san·van
Rating
4.4
1.7k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

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.

  • Tonka
    65
  • Caramel
    65
  • Sandalwood
    50
  • Vanilla
    50
  • Vetiver
    45

By the editors · 2 min readScandal Pour Homme Le Parfum takes the caramel-honey framework that made the original a commercial touchstone and amplifies it without losing the warmth that earned it its following. Mandarin provides a brief citrus note before tonka and heliotrope establish themselves: sweet, powdery, and warm, with caramel contributing a confectionery richness that reads as indulgent rather than cloying. Clary sage and vetiver underneath add the earthy, slightly herbal counterbalance that keeps the sweetness honest — without them, it would collapse under its own sugar. Sandalwood in the base extends the dry-down gracefully. Dense and approachable, pitched squarely at those who like their fragrances to announce warmth rather than restraint.

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

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap