Fleur du male. Jean paul Gaultier

Perfumist: Francis Kurkdjian.

Includes petitgrain, azahar, fern note and comaurin.

An honor of the poet Charles Baudelaire: the fragrance’s name is pronounced like Baudelaire’s famous collection of poems Les Fleurs du Mal, “The Flowers of Evil,” whereas the fragrance’s name means “Flower of the Male”). A new entrance of the modern fougere for men, but I should correct and add for the metrosexual really!.

It find it feminine, (even nasty), there's not problem raised yet as I wear sometimes feminine scents (more androgenous on my nose though). I like tuberose, jasmin, cyclamen...

Not keen on orange blossom flower.

Not even in real life as in the Mediterranean in Spring-Summer the atmosphere stinks on orange blossom becasue for example in South Spain there miles of land full of the orange trees, and I find it too sticky.The problem for me,is the neroli note. If you really like this note, go and try it, as is a very prominent note. You won't notice the azahar but you will smell a more strong level of the neroli note. Azahar is the same flower as neroli (aka. petitgrain, orange blossom...).Only diferrence is the fruit: is the lemon blosson of the lemon tree, smell the same, so then, the composition goes vomiting sticky as they double add the bloody note.Then comes the urine note.(fern note mixed with horrid coumarin). For me the dry down smells like the odour of someone that just pissed on the street during a hot day, It's just vile and remarkable,as you try to wash out and the smell goes stronger, and then comes the horrible powdery base, like talc powder, that's it.

Argh!. Vile.

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