Jean Paul Gaultier · 2019 · Sonia Constant and Quentin Bisch

Le Beau

Mid-range$$, 2 of 5

The houseFor men

VersionEau de Toilette

Bright bergamot over creamy coconut wood and warm, almond-sweet tonka bean.

Jean Paul Gaultier says

You’ll smell bergamot, Coconut Wood and Tonka Bean.

More from Jean Paul Gaultier’s description

It also mentions Tonka beans.

The house’s page

The drawn Le Beau bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Le Beau’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, coconut, tonka (coumarin), geraniol (rose), cinnamal (cinnamon) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Le Beau, top notes: Bergamot

Heartas it settles

Le Beau, heart: Coconut, Geraniol (rose), Cinnamal (cinnamon)

Dry-downwhat stays

Le Beau, dry-down: Tonka (coumarin)

What’s inside it

What Jean Paul Gaultier names

What the label names

8 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

8 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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Le Beau NarcisseJean Paul Gaultier · shares bergamot and tonka$152 for 125 ml · about the same as Le Beau’s $138
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.