Gaultier Divine Le Parfum Jean Paul Gaultier 2024
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The filler tropical beach episode of every anime ever
Very sweet. Creamy, like coconut milk. Salty and a little aquatic, but very... uniformly so, as if the salt is completely dissolved in the milky liquid. Resinous – in a slick buttery way rather than gooey. Floral. Very yellow.
Leaves a thick lasting trail, but needs a fair bit of time to engulf the larger space in your immediate vicinity if you sit still. The type of scent that's too heavy for its own good.
Feels like eating desserts at a seashore café. The idea of sitting on a terrace outside sounds genius until the wind rises and suddenly your exorbitantly priced piece of sponge cake with wilting berries tastes like sand and sea water.
Falls into a category of super sweet and heavy summery perfumes that are meant to invoke a "tropical vacation" feeling in the wearer. Welp, at least it doesn't smell like sunscreen...
Takes about ~3 hours to dry down to the base. During those 3 hours makes me feel weirdly uncomfortable. Like I'm an unspecified anime girl in a filler beach episode. Washed ashore at a picturesque tropical island that has a single abandoned hut in it full of nothing but hundreds of cutesy skimpy bikinis to choose from.
It's hard to put the feeling into words, but while it smells pretty good, there's something... ingenuine about it. As if the composition is saying "look at me, everything about me exists for your titillation". I personally don't find that feeling in any way enjoyable.
The drydown is mostly gourmand. Powdery in an "old crumbly merengue" way. It lingers for a few more hours, but at that point it's a skinscent that I can easily ignore by keeping my arms away from my face.
Objectively – it's decent. But personally? I'm very much not its target audience.
Leaves a thick lasting trail, but needs a fair bit of time to engulf the larger space in your immediate vicinity if you sit still. The type of scent that's too heavy for its own good.
Feels like eating desserts at a seashore café. The idea of sitting on a terrace outside sounds genius until the wind rises and suddenly your exorbitantly priced piece of sponge cake with wilting berries tastes like sand and sea water.
Falls into a category of super sweet and heavy summery perfumes that are meant to invoke a "tropical vacation" feeling in the wearer. Welp, at least it doesn't smell like sunscreen...
Takes about ~3 hours to dry down to the base. During those 3 hours makes me feel weirdly uncomfortable. Like I'm an unspecified anime girl in a filler beach episode. Washed ashore at a picturesque tropical island that has a single abandoned hut in it full of nothing but hundreds of cutesy skimpy bikinis to choose from.
It's hard to put the feeling into words, but while it smells pretty good, there's something... ingenuine about it. As if the composition is saying "look at me, everything about me exists for your titillation". I personally don't find that feeling in any way enjoyable.
The drydown is mostly gourmand. Powdery in an "old crumbly merengue" way. It lingers for a few more hours, but at that point it's a skinscent that I can easily ignore by keeping my arms away from my face.
Objectively – it's decent. But personally? I'm very much not its target audience.