Jean Paul Gaultier · 1993

Classique

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Toilette

Spicy ginger over orange blossom, settling into warm vanilla.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell ginger, Orange Blossom and vanilla.

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Classique’s scent picture, a draft: ginger, orange blossom, vanilla, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Classique, top notes: Ginger

Heartas it settles

Classique, heart: Orange blossom

Dry-downwhat stays

Classique, dry-down: Vanilla, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

What the label names

15 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 & lavender8 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins2 spices

9 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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Interlude WomanAmouage · shares ginger, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and vanilla
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.