Fragrance Notes
Gaultier Divine Elixir
Most people who buy this end up with the 50ml, and Gaultier Divine Elixir Parfum 50ml is the sensible middle of a range where the smallest bottle feels cautious and the largest feels like a lifetime supply.
What you are buying is a two material fragrance at elixir strength, which is a far less common proposition than it sounds. Tuberose does the work at the front. It is the richest and most substantial of the white flowers, thick and creamy with a faint rubbery quality and a cool green sharpness underneath, and concentrated like this it carries across a room without effort. Tonka bean is underneath it and it changes everything. Warm, powdery and gently sweet with a bitterness running beneath, it rounds the flower off, removes its hard edges and keeps it on the skin for a very long time. Quentin Bisch composed it, and in a fragrance with nowhere to hide the restraint is the achievement.
Short compositions behave in a particular way and it is worth knowing before you commit. There is no third stage, no surprise in the base, and no gradual reveal. The tuberose leads for the first couple of hours, the tonka takes over, and the fragrance finishes soft and warm. People who like to follow a scent through changes will find it simple. People who want a single strong idea will find it exactly right. It suits women, cold weather and the evening, and one spray is genuinely enough. At 50ml that will last a long season or two.
The label is a fashion house from Paris. Its founder showed his first collection for women in 1976 and opened a boutique of his own in 1984, and perfume followed in 1993 in the corset shaped flacon that remains the house signature. Puig has held a majority stake since 2011 and took the fragrance business fully in house in 2016.
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