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Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal
Jean Paul Gaultier

Scandal

Citrus
Floral
White Floral
Fruity
Woody
Patchouli
Earthy
EDP · 2017 · womens

Jean Paul Gaultier's provocative house aesthetic carries through Scandal, a 2017 fragrance that trades shock value for genuine sensuality. The brand's reputation for bold, unconventional femininity sets the stage for what unfolds here.

Scandal opens with a bright citrus burst of blood orange and mandarin, immediately sweet and slightly gourmand in tone. The heart pivots to creamy white florals, centering on gardenia and jasmine with peach and orange blossom adding softness and juiciness. Honey weaves through the florals, making them feel almost edible. The base anchors everything with beeswax, caramel, and licorice for a candy-like sweetness, while patchouli provides earthiness and prevents the composition from becoming cloying. It's fundamentally a white floral fragrance with gourmand tendencies, leaning hedonistic rather than delicate.

Scandal suits those who want to wear florals without apology, especially if you gravitate toward warm, honeyed compositions with a caramel-tinged finish. It performs best in cooler months or evenings when its sweetness feels indulgent rather than heavy. This is a fragrance for The Romantic, The Hedonist, and The Heirloom who appreciate sensual depth over restraint.

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Main Accordsreported by community
Citrus
59%
Floral
59%
White Floral
100%
Fruity
70%
Woody
26%
Patchouli
60%
Earthy
26%
Sweet
100%
Gourmand
90%
Fragrance Notesbrand verified
Top · 0–30 min
Blood Orange
Blood Orange
Darker and more complex than regular sweet orange, blood orange has a berry-like, slightly tart quality alongside its citrus brightness. The pigment responsible for its deep crimson colour also gives it a richer, more brooding character. It bridges citrus and fruity families in a way that feels distinctly Mediterranean.
Mandarin Orange
Mandarin Orange
Heart · 30 min – 3 hrs
Gardenia
Gardenia
Intoxicatingly creamy and white-floral with a waxy, almost narcotic sweetness. Gardenia shares the heady indolic quality of jasmine and tuberose but with a fresher, greener edge from its glossy leaves. A challenging note to use well, too much overwhelms, but a well-handled gardenia accord is memorably beautiful.
Honey
Honey
Sweet, waxy, and faintly animalic, honey in perfumery has an almost skin-like quality, intimate and slightly raw. It's related to beeswax in the natural world, and both add a warmth that reads as close and personal. Honey bridges floral and oriental families, adding natural sweetness with a slightly dark edge.
Jasmine
Jasmine
Intoxicating, heady, and slightly animalic, jasmine is one of the few flowers that smells as rich in a bottle as it does climbing a garden wall at dusk. It has an almost fleshy, indolic quality that stops it reading as purely 'clean.' Jasmine is a workhorse in both feminine and masculine perfumery, adding depth and soul.
Orange Blossom
Orange Blossom
Sweeter and more honeyed than neroli (both come from the same tree), orange blossom is a floral note with a warm, almost edible quality. It floats between citrus and floral families, adding richness without weight. A signature note of classic Mediterranean and Middle Eastern perfumery.
Peach
Peach
Ripe, juicy, and velvety, peach has a warm, slightly creamy sweetness that feels lush rather than childish in the right context. It adds a fruity sensuality to floral and oriental fragrances, and its slightly fuzzy quality can even play into tactile, skin-like accords. A note that feels like high summer.
Base · 3–12 hrs
Beeswax
Beeswax
Warm, slightly honeyed, and faintly waxy, beeswax captures the hive's scent rather than pure honey: less sweet, more complex, with a natural, slightly animalic quality. It adds a living warmth to floral and oriental compositions, suggesting proximity to nature. Closely related to honey in perfumery but quieter and more textural.
Caramel
Caramel
Warm, buttery, and sweet with a slight bitterness from the cooking process, caramel is one of perfumery's most approachable gourmand notes. It adds a comforting, edible quality without going full dessert, and it softens and rounds other notes beautifully. A pillar of the Angel-inspired oriental-gourmand genre.
Licorice
Licorice
Sweet, anise-like, and slightly medicinal, licorice adds a distinctive herbal sweetness that is completely its own. It's simultaneously comforting and slightly challenging, with a dark, slightly bitter edge beneath its sweetness. Found in orientals, gourmands, and some unexpected aromatic compositions where it adds an unusual twist.
Patchouli
Patchouli
Dense, earthy, and darkly sweet, patchouli is the scent of damp soil and dried herbs with an almost chocolatey richness. It polarizes people because in high concentrations it's overwhelming, but as a supporting note it adds depth and longevity that almost nothing else can match. The backbone of countless oriental and chypre fragrances.
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The RomanticBest match86% match
Your fragrance is a love letter you never stop writing.

Warm roses, vanilla, amber, creamy musks. Soft, evolving, intimate.

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The Hedonist86% match
More is more. You've always known this.

Opulent, rich, long-lasting. Vanilla, amber, dense florals, gourmand warmth.

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The Heirloom84% match
You carry something beautiful that most people have forgotten.

Powdery, soft, classically sweet. Iris, aldehydes, gentle florals, quiet vintage warmth.

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Scent Profile
Citrus59%Floral59%White Floral100%Fruity70%Woody26%
Fragrance Family
Floral Oriental
EDP
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Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal— Prices, Coupons & Buying Guide

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Jean Paul Gaultier's provocative house aesthetic carries through Scandal, a 2017 fragrance that trades shock value for genuine sensuality. The brand's reputation for bold, unconventional femininity sets the stage for what unfolds here. Scandal opens with a bright citrus burst of blood orange and mandarin, immediately sweet and slightly gourmand in tone. The heart pivots to creamy white florals, centering on gardenia and jasmine with peach and orange blossom adding softness and juiciness. Honey weaves through the florals, making them feel almost edible. The base anchors everything with beeswax, caramel, and licorice for a candy-like sweetness, while patchouli provides earthiness and prevents the composition from becoming cloying. It's fundamentally a white floral fragrance with gourmand tendencies, leaning hedonistic rather than delicate. Scandal suits those who want to wear florals without apology, especially if you gravitate toward warm, honeyed compositions with a caramel-tinged finish. It performs best in cooler months or evenings when its sweetness feels indulgent rather than heavy. This is a fragrance for The Romantic, The Hedonist, and The Heirloom who appreciate sensual depth over restraint.
What are the notes in Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal? +
Top: Blood Orange, Mandarin Orange. Heart: Gardenia, Honey, Jasmine, Orange Blossom, Peach. Base: Beeswax, Caramel, Licorice, Patchouli.
What fragrance family is Scandal? +
Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal belongs to the Floral Oriental fragrance family. It is an EDP.
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