Fragrance Notes
Chestnut
SandalwoodScandal Pour Homme Absolu
Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal Pour Homme Absolu Parfum Concentré is built on chestnut, and the nut is the whole idea: sweet, roasted, slightly starchy, closer to something cooked than to anything floral. Mirabelle plum sits beside it with a small golden sweetness, and sandalwood gives the mixture its spine. It smells cooked rather than fresh, and that is clearly the intention.
Chestnut, sandalwood and mirabelle plum are the whole of it, and those same three materials are what the accords amount to. Chestnut carries the weight and the sweetness, the plum keeps that sweetness fruity rather than flat sugar, and the sandalwood runs creamy and dry underneath, holding everything in place so the gourmand side reads rich instead of cloying. With only three materials there is nothing to hide behind, and the concentration pushes all of them forward at once, so each of the three registers on the skin. The plum is the first thing to thin out, leaving chestnut and wood to carry the rest of the wear.
Nathalie Gracia-Cetto, Quentin Bisch and Christophe Raynaud created it for the 2024 launch. Jean Paul Gaultier is the Paris house of the French couturier, who founded his label in 1982, and Puig has held the fragrance licence since 1 January 2016.
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