Top Notes 
Geranium
Heart Notes 
Tonka bean
Base Notes 
Sandalwood
03/28/2025
DAVID043329
37 Reviews
DAVID043329
Very helpful Review
5
One Step Closer to the Throne
It's no secret that the original Scandal pour Homme wasn't that good of a perfume. It was synthetic, sweet, bland, and it just didn't really feel like a high quality fragrance. But Scandal pour Homme Le Parfum takes the original Scandal pour Homme and improves every aspect of it by a bit.
The opening will still have some of the synthetic feel of the original, but toned down a bit. And with Scandal pour Homme, the tonka bean sweetness would immediately push through, blending with the synthetic accord. But it's not the same with Le Parfum. Here, I get a much more prominent and potent geranium, which gives the fragrance a spicy and citrusy profile. But the little tonka bean that there is here smoothens things out. And as the fragrance settles, you get that woody, musky and slightly spicy vibe from the sandalwood. It does feel somewhat better blended than the original Scandal pour Homme, but I also seem to go nose blind to it much faster than with the original. While I would say that it does smell a bit nicer than the eau de toilette, I'm still far from impressed.
The longevity here does impress, though. The fragrance held on for about 10 hours on my skin, which is again, a bit better than with the original. Projection is also praiseworthy for the first two hours, leaving a nice trail behind and filling the rooms I entered. But after the first two hours, it was very tricky to tell just how much more was it still projecting. Since I went nose blind to it rather quickly, I needed a couple of friends to tell me from time to time if they could still smell it. But it seems that they also faced the nose blind issue, and after the first two hours, they could barely feel it anymore. But given how good projection was initially, I doubt that the fragrance became a skin scent so quickly after, so my nose blindness is to blame, and I'm sure that it was still fairly noticeable for those who weren't constantly around me and smelling it.
In terms of occasions where you could wear Scandal pour Homme Le Parfum, the same ones that applied to the original also apply here. Leisurely, daily wear, work, parties, clubbing... you could even rock it at more formal gatherings if you'd like (I wouldn't, though). It's a pretty versatile fragrance, and given its overall improvement over the original, I'd say that it's much easier to wear to a broader selection of scenarios.
But still, I'm not really a huge fan of this DNA. It doesn't smell bad at all, but it's not exactly my style, which is why I'll probably never consider buying a full bottle. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't consider it. On the contrary, if you liked the original Scandal pour Homme, but you wish it wasn't as synthetic, then this is quite literally that. There's really no reason to get the original anymore; Scandal pour Homme Le Parfum is better in every way and it's definitely worth trying if you just want a good, versatile perfume.
Overall Rating: 7.6/10
The opening will still have some of the synthetic feel of the original, but toned down a bit. And with Scandal pour Homme, the tonka bean sweetness would immediately push through, blending with the synthetic accord. But it's not the same with Le Parfum. Here, I get a much more prominent and potent geranium, which gives the fragrance a spicy and citrusy profile. But the little tonka bean that there is here smoothens things out. And as the fragrance settles, you get that woody, musky and slightly spicy vibe from the sandalwood. It does feel somewhat better blended than the original Scandal pour Homme, but I also seem to go nose blind to it much faster than with the original. While I would say that it does smell a bit nicer than the eau de toilette, I'm still far from impressed.
The longevity here does impress, though. The fragrance held on for about 10 hours on my skin, which is again, a bit better than with the original. Projection is also praiseworthy for the first two hours, leaving a nice trail behind and filling the rooms I entered. But after the first two hours, it was very tricky to tell just how much more was it still projecting. Since I went nose blind to it rather quickly, I needed a couple of friends to tell me from time to time if they could still smell it. But it seems that they also faced the nose blind issue, and after the first two hours, they could barely feel it anymore. But given how good projection was initially, I doubt that the fragrance became a skin scent so quickly after, so my nose blindness is to blame, and I'm sure that it was still fairly noticeable for those who weren't constantly around me and smelling it.
In terms of occasions where you could wear Scandal pour Homme Le Parfum, the same ones that applied to the original also apply here. Leisurely, daily wear, work, parties, clubbing... you could even rock it at more formal gatherings if you'd like (I wouldn't, though). It's a pretty versatile fragrance, and given its overall improvement over the original, I'd say that it's much easier to wear to a broader selection of scenarios.
But still, I'm not really a huge fan of this DNA. It doesn't smell bad at all, but it's not exactly my style, which is why I'll probably never consider buying a full bottle. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't consider it. On the contrary, if you liked the original Scandal pour Homme, but you wish it wasn't as synthetic, then this is quite literally that. There's really no reason to get the original anymore; Scandal pour Homme Le Parfum is better in every way and it's definitely worth trying if you just want a good, versatile perfume.
Overall Rating: 7.6/10
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