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Jean Paul Gaultier · Est. 2015

Ultra Male

Ultra Male opens with a jolt of sweetness—candied pear and mint collide over lavender, creating something between a barbershop and a patisserie.

ConcentrationFragrance
Formasculine
Released2015
Statusenriched
Ultra Male — Jean Paul Gaultier
2015 · Fragrance
van·cin·car·amb
Rating
4.4
12.5k 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.

  • Vanilla
    70
  • Cinnamon
    60
  • Caramel
    60
  • Amber
    50
  • Lavender
    50

By the editors · 2 min readUltra Male opens with a jolt of sweetness—candied pear and mint collide over lavender, creating something between a barbershop and a patisserie. The citrus notes feel almost decorative against this sugared blast. It's immediate and unapologetic, designed to announce itself across a room.

As it settles, cinnamon adds heat without quite grounding the composition, while clary sage provides an herbal counterpoint that never fully tames the sweetness. The base eventually reveals amber and woods, but they remain soft and diffuse, more texture than structure. The patchouli registers as dark chocolate rather than earth.

This is a fragrance of extremes—amplified sweetness, amplified projection, amplified persistence. It wears best in cold weather on someone comfortable with attention, particularly in nightlife settings where subtlety isn't the goal. The name proves accurate: restraint is not part of the brief.

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

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap