Jean Paul Gaultier · 2017 · Daphné Bugey, Fabrice Pellegrin and Christophe Raynaud

Scandal

VersionEau de Parfum

Blood orange and grapefruit over creamy gardenia and a thick pour of honey, on an earthy patchouli base.

Jean Paul Gaultier says

You’ll smell gardenia, honey and patchouli.

More from Jean Paul Gaultier’s description

It also mentions Blood orange and Grapefruit.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Scandal’s scent picture, a draft: gardenia, honey, patchouli, sweet orange, grapefruit, coumarin (tonka) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Scandal, top notes: Gardenia, Sweet orange, Grapefruit

Heartas it settles

Scandal, heart: Honey

Dry-downwhat stays

Scandal, dry-down: Patchouli, Coumarin (tonka)

What’s inside it

What Jean Paul Gaultier names

GardeniaHoneyPatchouliBlood orangeGrapefruit

What the label names

7 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 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals2

Benzyl salicylateGeraniol

Sweet1

Coumarin (tonka)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
10 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell10

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Benzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoateViolet 2Red 33Yellow 5

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

AurumAjmal · shares gardenia, honey, patchouli and sweet orange
Detour NoirAl Haramain · shares gardenia, patchouli, sweet orange and grapefruit
Club de Nuit WomanArmaf · shares patchouli, sweet orange and grapefruit
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.