Jean Paul Gaultier · 2024 · Natalie Cetto, Quentin Bisch and Christophe Raynaud

Scandal Pour Homme Absolu

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor men

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A sweet, nutty chestnut with mirabelle plum, resting on smooth sandalwood.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell chestnut, sandalwood and mirabelle plum.

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The drawn Scandal Pour Homme Absolu bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Scandal Pour Homme Absolu’s scent picture, a draft: chestnut, sandalwood, plum, coumarin (new-mown hay), citral (lemon), geraniol (rose) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Scandal Pour Homme Absolu, when you spray it: Citral (lemon)

As it settlesheart notes

Scandal Pour Homme Absolu, as it settles: Plum, Geraniol (rose)

What staysdry-down notes

Scandal Pour Homme Absolu, what stays: Chestnut, Sandalwood, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

What the label names

9 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 & lavender3 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins1 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

This Is Her!Zadig & Voltaire · shares chestnut and sandalwood$158 for 100 ml · about the same as Scandal Pour Homme Absolu’s $162
BlackmailKerosene · shares sandalwood and plum$164 for 100 ml · about the same as Scandal Pour Homme Absolu’s $162
MentorMind Games · shares sandalwood and plum
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.