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Le Mâle Lover Jean Paul Gaultier 2024

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7.6 / 10 133 Ratings

A new and limited perfume by Jean Paul Gaultier for men, released in 2024. The scent is sweet-fresh. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Sweet

Fresh

Creamy

Synthetic

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

White pepper

Finger lime

Heart Notes

Ambergris

Base Notes

Vanilla

Woods

Ratings

Scent

7.6133 Ratings

Longevity

8.0128 Ratings

Sillage

7.6126 Ratings

Bottle

8.3134 Ratings

Value for money

7.4117 Ratings

Submitted by Itscoral, last update on 03/24/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the "Les Males" collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Guilty Elixir de Parfum pour Homme

1 Million Parfum

Joop! Homme Wild

Scandal pour Homme Le Parfum

Invictus Victory Elixir

Le Mâle Eau Fraîche Popeye Edition

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/01/2024

5
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Gymnager
49 Reviews

Gymnager

1

Slept on

Ahh, another year and another release after release from Gaultier. I really do not care about the other people’s comments especially for Gaultier. Gaultier m…riders are the only people that possess even more uneducated noses than Sauvage edt glazers. Sure, Gaultier has some amazing fragrances like Le Male Le Parfum, Scandal Le Parfum and Le Beau Le Parfum but also has some fragrances that are just overhyped. Ultramale is a over-sweet, extremely offensive and synthetic mess, Le Male Elixir is again over-sweet and extremely offensive mess but actually smells good, Le Male OG is an outdated barbershop fragrance and scandal absolu is a armani you ripoff. So, I was excited for Le Male Lover because those m…rider gaultier fans probably couldn’t like this fragrance because it was not a synthetic and over sweet mess but actually a good one and… I WAS RIGHT! Le Male Lover starts just right amount of white pepper that gives a fresh-spicy feeling, then becomes a cold and sweet fragrance with ambergris and leaves it’s place for classic Gaultier vanilla. So simple yet so good. Performance is also quite good, lasting slightly more than 8 hour mark with a strong projection. Fragrance will be ok for any season and any occasion, even though I think it might smell a bit too sweet for high-extreme weather. The only con I can say about the fragrance is it’s just right on the middle in terms of characteristic. Does this fragrance wants to be a summer or a winter one? I don’t know. Is it versatile? Versatile enough to wear it on both summer and winter. Also, in terms of “syntheticness” ambergris here is clearly made through processing ambroxan but you wouldn’t expect a designer brand to use real ambergris so I guess that’s okay. The price is REALLY expensive, I am not going to pay more than 100 euros for a 125 bottle. (The price I saw was 112 frank in Switzerland which worths about 117 euro.) if you can find it for cheap, I would recommend a purchase. But since it is a limited edition, it is not even available in my country. Maybe I will get a sample from a tester bottle when I visit another country. This fragrance was the one that should have gotten the hype, not coconut, aquatic green synthetic sweet fragrance that screams “Cool Water Intense ahhhhh” fragrance called Le Beau Green Paradise.

03/11/2024

9
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Sleth
5 Reviews

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Sleth

Very helpful Review 9

Le Male Rabanne Lover - Unfortunately cool, but not very innovative

A new year, a new Le Male Flanker.
Not bad news for me as a JPG (Bisch) fanboy, as my fan heart jumps a little higher with joy. I just love JPG, let me!

At the moment, the fragrance is still relatively hard to get, as it is not available via the German JPG website or German on/offline perfumeries. And although I've seen a few video and text reviews from mostly English-speaking critics in the meantime, all of which were rather mixed, I thought to myself "Oh come on, what the hell, I'll just order it in Italy and test it myself".

No sooner said than done and, to anticipate a little: it's good that I did it. Because no other review has ever described the fragrance the way I smell the new Le Male Lover. And we'll get to that now.

As soon as I sprayed it on, I thought: "Huh? You know that scent? I wore it a lot in winter, didn't I?" Confused, I tried to connect what I smelled with a fragrance from my collection. And then it clicked: "Invictus Victory Elixir | Paco Rabanne" ! The opening and middle are reminiscent of a slightly fresher version of Rabanne's Victory Elixir. The same vanilla/coconut note that reminds me of many a vanilla scented candle. For me, infinitely cool, just a little fresher than the "original"

In the middle up to DryDown, a little "1 Million Parfum | Paco Rabanne" is added to my nose, fruity bubblegum sweetness with a light peppery freshness that smells slightly minty. A great combination.

Imagine Mentos. A new variety of Mentos: Vanilla Coconut Mentos. And they consist of 3/6 vanilla coconut, 2/6 are the old classic Fruit Mentos and 1/6 are the classic Mint Mentos. And voila: Le Male Lover Mentos is created.

I like it, because I like both 1M Parfum and Victory Elixir very much and consider them to be the best of the respective (still freely available) series.

Not surprising, really, because Rabanne and JPG share some of the same perfumers with Raynaud and Bisch. So I simply claim that 1M was created with Le Male as a model, Bisch then refined 1M Elixir into Le Male Elixir and now finally found "inspiration" in Victory Elixir and mixed it with his 1M perfume into the new Le Male Lover. You think this story is true? Then again, it could be...

While Rabanne's fragrances are all "coarser", the JPG fragrances seem a little finer and more balanced to me. The only unfortunate thing is that Rabanne now seems to be setting the trend (or the perfumers are trying it out) and JPG takes the ideas and refines them. Admittedly, his great-grandfather's DNA is suitable for the masses, but: not very innovative.

On the other hand, Le Male Lover replaces 2 Rabanne perfumes (Victory Elixir and 1M perfume) for me in one fell swoop. To be honest, I would rather wear Le Male Lover than one of the two, because it is simply more interesting and refined, not so youthful and in-your-face.

I see Le Male Lover in spring/autumn and possibly in winter, rather than in summer. For summer then at most in the evening/night, during the day the fragrance might be too heavy/sweet. Longevity is more than ok for me with 6+ hours for the price of 85,- (incl. shipping) for 125ml, on clothes it lasts much longer. It also has good projection in the first few hours (around 2-3 hours). Unfortunately, the two Rabannes have the edge here, but they are also significantly sweeter and less fresh. So somewhere understandable.

Did JPG do itself a favor with the packaging and presentation? Because it is more reminiscent of a blue, fresh aquatic; and in my opinion you get 0.0% of that here, as the fragrance is vanilla/coconut/fruity sweet and only offers minimal freshness from the mint. I think a different branding a la Le Beau (tropical green) would have suited it better. Although the Ur-LeMale is already green (and Aviator) and would probably have raised false expectations again...

Let's summarize: Le Male Lover is an awesome spring/fall fragrance for me and is indeed the link between Elixir (winter) and Le Beau Paradise Garden (summer). Not a bit innovative, but for me the better version of the two Rabanne originals. Unfortunately, Le Male Lover has little Le Male DNA (except for minimal peppery mint subtly in the background of the vanilla/coconut/fruity bubblegum sweetness) and is more reminiscent of a very good Rabanne fragrance. If you want Le Male, you will be disappointed; if you want a good, mass-market fragrance: Cheers Le Male Lover.

One thing is as certain to me as the Amen in the church: I need at least 1-2 more bunker bottles of this limited edition. I would be pretty sad if it were to be empty and no longer available at some point, and I didn't say that about InTheNavy, Aviator and OnBoard. However, Le Male Lover is not an eau fraiche either. Anyone expecting that will be equally disappointed. But if you want a "best of" Rabanne for spring/autumn from JPG, you've come to the right place. Puig won't care anyway, they own both :D

05/08/2024

9
Pricing 9
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Flair
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Flair

11

Break a lance...

I'll take up the cudgels. Le Mâle Lover currently has a score of 7.1 and is not very popular - but 'Lover' is a really good fragrance!

I unmistakably perceive the modern Le Male DNA, which I know and love from Le Mâle Le Parfum, for example! Masculine sweetness, no bubble gum, but mature, seasoned sweetness. Dominance flanked by motivation and seduction. Self-confident, attractive, not off-putting, but pleasing.

Le Mâle Lover is an all-rounder that always works from my point of view - in the depths of winter, however, Le Mâle Le Parfum should really take over. In manageable doses, Le Mâle Lover works in the office and, of course, also in the evening hours if the concentration is high. I can even imagine wearing it in the scorching heat of summer - will be testing it live this year!

So why the low rating so far? Yes, the first intention is 'shower gel fragrance' - but only the first. The second is directly a seductive Le Male. But it is simple and that is not always enough for an experienced perfume nose. The fact that it is simple is what makes it so versatile. Every weakness is also a strength...

Don't be fooled, hide the rating, test the fragrance once and again and I am sure that many will like Le Mâle Lover. Let's see if we can make the 8.X later this year!

03/17/2024

7
Pricing 9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Sirbennyone
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Sirbennyone

6

You didn't reinvent the wheel, but....

Hello everyone,

a few weeks ago I found out that there is a new flanker (again^^) of the Le Mâle Eau de Toilette line and well, I am less impressed, because how many more years will this last? And somehow my expectations were not so... i also saw the fragrance pyramid and thought (based on that) it was going in the Le Mâle Terrible direction...l

Resolution - no!

He didn't reinvent the wheel and has no innovations or anything that will be remembered... nothing.

And now for the BUT...

He's good, not damn good, not thoroughly good, he's good! It is pleasing, nice, has (of course) a current Le Mâle Eau de Toilette vibe + a certain light vacation note/ feel-good note of Le Beau Mâle = only really nice/ nice and better than Le Beau Mâle !

It has something fresh, something clean and a slightly sweet but not annoying touch and I personally find it one of the better releases of the house in recent years.

When + where?

Almost always and for every occasion, a good 30°C and more might not be a good idea, but otherwise it really always works.
And my experiences at work (both genders, tested for 2 weeks as usual) were very positive!
So I can't report anything bad!

Is it absolutely necessary no?

NO, but you definitely don't do anything wrong with it either.
(So I like it already...)

If I really wasn't convinced, I wouldn't recommend it to you! (At least for a test)

And now have a nice day/evening, or whatever you read this review, LG the Benny
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03/29/2024

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Dennis1104
599 Reviews

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Dennis1104

6

There is no coconut in it, but my nose wants to smell something..hmm

Le Male Lover doesn't do anything earth-shattering, but it doesn't have to. It smells solid and quite good. I can't really recognize the typical Le Male DNA, but a twist on Le Beau. At least that's how I feel about the bottling.

The fragrance starts slightly refreshed, but with a certain sweetness. My girlfriend's first comment: "It's got coconut in it!"
...and yes, that was my thought too. I definitely perceive a coconut touch, even though there is no coconut in the pyramid. Then I also immediately sense the vanilla in the background.
White pepper is also listed and what can I say?
When I first tested it, I couldn't even begin to detect pepper. In the meantime, I actually imagine that I perceive a very soft pepper.
But not the kind of pepper that is familiar from many other fragrances.

In my opinion, the fresh impression never fades completely, but it becomes much weaker after a few minutes. I then mainly perceive a slightly refreshed coconut note with vanilla and amber.
Funnily enough, towards the end I have the impression that it gains some freshness again and takes it back from the opening.

The fragrance is also very clean. For me, it's a little cleaner that has a little Prada L'Homme touch somewhere in it.

All in all, a very nice fragrance that doesn't really pick me up. Nevertheless, as I said, it is quite good and will find many fans, especially outside our little perfume bubble.

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