Scandal Absolu Jean Paul Gaultier 2024
2
Fuzzy peach skin! It's a shame that I'm allergic to it.
A very sweet gourmand fragrance with a hefty dose of honeyed peach in it. Heady white florals. Fig on the sidelines. Something lovably herbal too (davana?), but it's unfortunately rather weak and brief.
But peach is the obvious star of the show that steals your attention the moment you relax and stop trying to sniff out each separate detail.
My partner got a sneezing fit as soon as I sprayed it. I was laughing at him at first, but then started sneezing myself right after. Not great. The whole room soon became peachy and sweet, while the air in my immediate vicinity became bitter. For the first hour I could taste this fragrance on my tongue if I made a mistake of breathing it in through my mouth. The scent may be different, but bitter chemical taste was the same one would feel if they sprayed a lot of air freshener in a tiny enclosed space.
It settled closer to me in about ~1,5 hours, and finally became easy to breathe in. At that point – still a very sweet composition with an emphasis on peach. There was something powdery deep within it, which made me feel almost as if I was petting the fuzzy peach skin. Pretty neat if you like that feeling, but me personally? I hate that texture, it always makes me itchy.
In ~1,5 hours peach fizzled out and left just the sweet vanilla base on my skin. Another ~2,5 hours later vanilla faded away too. Eh. It's whatever.
I tested it the next day after the original Scandal while the memory was still fresh, so if I had to base my score on that comparison – this one would easily win. It was both more balanced and much more interesting.
But in general, compared to all other fragrances of this kind that exist? If someone asked me for recommendations of peachy/gourmand perfumes, this one wouldn't even get a honorary mention.
But peach is the obvious star of the show that steals your attention the moment you relax and stop trying to sniff out each separate detail.
My partner got a sneezing fit as soon as I sprayed it. I was laughing at him at first, but then started sneezing myself right after. Not great. The whole room soon became peachy and sweet, while the air in my immediate vicinity became bitter. For the first hour I could taste this fragrance on my tongue if I made a mistake of breathing it in through my mouth. The scent may be different, but bitter chemical taste was the same one would feel if they sprayed a lot of air freshener in a tiny enclosed space.
It settled closer to me in about ~1,5 hours, and finally became easy to breathe in. At that point – still a very sweet composition with an emphasis on peach. There was something powdery deep within it, which made me feel almost as if I was petting the fuzzy peach skin. Pretty neat if you like that feeling, but me personally? I hate that texture, it always makes me itchy.
In ~1,5 hours peach fizzled out and left just the sweet vanilla base on my skin. Another ~2,5 hours later vanilla faded away too. Eh. It's whatever.
I tested it the next day after the original Scandal while the memory was still fresh, so if I had to base my score on that comparison – this one would easily win. It was both more balanced and much more interesting.
But in general, compared to all other fragrances of this kind that exist? If someone asked me for recommendations of peachy/gourmand perfumes, this one wouldn't even get a honorary mention.