Reviews of La Cologne Fleur du Mâle by Jean Paul Gaultier
This is my latest Le Male flanker to test out...
Fragrance notes: African orange flower, bergamot, basil, caraway seeds
It starts out smelling very musky, almost like ambergris in the top notes (thanks to the combo of orange flower's sweet-floral essence mixed with the sweaty, body-odorish caraway): Think YSL's Kouros when it comes to its famous animalic quality, and that's what I got in LCFdM.
The usual sweetness that Le Male is known for isn't there, but it moves in a decidedly fresh, pungent direction instead (driven by lemony fresh bergamot and basil). Basil is subdued but is at the heart of LCFdM as its main spice statement.
A very very sexy, sublime expression of Le Male. The nominal La Fleur du Male has a heavy, lingering tartness based on petitgrain and fern accords mixing with orange blossom; this flanker of a flanker tones the intensity of the tartness down and capitalizes on centering the scent on caraway and basil leaf. Both are more powdery than the original Le Male.
Kudos to JPG for this animalic take on one of my top favorite Le Male flankers, La Fleur du Male. Both are more floral than many men may care for, but I think many others can appreciate its distinct rethink of the Le Male mystique.
Fragrance notes: African orange flower, bergamot, basil, caraway seeds
It starts out smelling very musky, almost like ambergris in the top notes (thanks to the combo of orange flower's sweet-floral essence mixed with the sweaty, body-odorish caraway): Think YSL's Kouros when it comes to its famous animalic quality, and that's what I got in LCFdM.
The usual sweetness that Le Male is known for isn't there, but it moves in a decidedly fresh, pungent direction instead (driven by lemony fresh bergamot and basil). Basil is subdued but is at the heart of LCFdM as its main spice statement.
A very very sexy, sublime expression of Le Male. The nominal La Fleur du Male has a heavy, lingering tartness based on petitgrain and fern accords mixing with orange blossom; this flanker of a flanker tones the intensity of the tartness down and capitalizes on centering the scent on caraway and basil leaf. Both are more powdery than the original Le Male.
Kudos to JPG for this animalic take on one of my top favorite Le Male flankers, La Fleur du Male. Both are more floral than many men may care for, but I think many others can appreciate its distinct rethink of the Le Male mystique.
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Fleur Du Male La Cologne is a Very White and thick mossy fragrance. Sometimes it even smells of strong white soap that's animalic to me. It last a long time on the skin.
While not a bad scent, this is WAY too feminine for me. If you had honestly told me this was a woman's scent I wouldn't have batted an eye. Personally I don't find Le Male that sexually ambiguous, but many do. If you consider that "meterosexual" than I would hazard a guess this would fall under "full blown drag queen". For a woman or an androgenous male, this would be a thumbs up in my mind. For a dude, thumbs down. Averaging the two = neutral rating.
This one smells like one of my mothers perfumes. Way too feminine! Try before buying is all that I can say.
Good top notes, a barbershop quartet singing from the classic songbook of Sauvage, Monsieur de Givenchy and Guerlain E D C Imperiale, but unfotunately it made the Imperiale seem long lasting and had diminished to a sweet sweaty smell before you could say, "One hour".
A greener version of the original Fleur du Male. Though the sweetness is subdued, it is not eliminated. The floral notes on this are still pretty good.
Disgusting. The same strong heart of Le Male mixed with a synthetic and sickening "floral" opening. They said "neroli", I say Ugghhh!!!
Much better than FdM (this doesn't smell of Kouros!).Light woody floral musk, very wearable. Good shaving soap, barber shop scent. The way andrewthecologneguy has described this, reflecting the bottles, hits the nail on the head.
Far better than the obtrusive eau de toilette version in my opinion! The top note is dry and citrusy, and then a very elegant flowery heart note comes out. Just perfect if a man wants a luxurious scent also showing his femine sides, but never making a dandy of him.
I MUCH prefer this to its "original" version. This is much fresher, less cloying and far more interesting IMO. Very nice scent this and lasts rather well for an EDC too.
Soap, but a real, no-muted down, no-flowery, heavy-smelling washing soap. That's what comes first and if one is not patient enough, then with some water the scent might ed up in the basin. But I do recommend to wait about 10 minutes. And then slowly comes a very nice, close to the skin scent which makes you sniff your arm very often. It's reminiscent of the original Fleur du Male, but in a much lighter, cleaner, much more wearable form. For me the nicest surprise for a very long time.
This is a very well done flanker to the original FdM. I think the guys at JPG are near geniuses, because you can see and feel what they were thinking about. I'll explain: the first FdM came in a completely opaque bottle and the juice is just that: thick and difficult to see thru. The LCFdM version is clearer and somewhat icy or frosty...just like the bottle. It is fresher, less 'naughty-boy' and more 'sexy-confident-guy'. It has a slight animalic edge to it too that I really like, it's just the right dose without being overpowering. If you enjoyed FdM you should totally love this too. It's worth buying even if you already have FdM. RECOMMENDED.