Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male

Welcome to Perfume and Aftershave reviews, where we have researched interesting facts about Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male Aftershave. We also test the aftershave to give you our honest opinion on how it worked and is it actually worth the money you are about to invest. This Jean Paul Gaultier aftershave is part of a huge collection of perfumes from the Gaultier fragrance Labs which I’m sure will wet your appetite for more. 

We have split this article into different catagories beginning with the; 

• History
• Perfumer
• Notes
• Description of Notes
• What was our Findings
• Public Reviews
• Reasons to consider when purchasing your product
• Description of different types of Perfumes
• Where to store your fragrance
• Media Section
• Conclusion

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History

Jean Paul Gaultier

Born 24 April 1952, Jean Paul Gaultier is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. He is described as an “enfant terrible” of the fashion industry, and is known for his unconventional designs with motifs including corsets, marinières, and tin cans.

Gaultier founded his eponymous fashion label in 1982, and expanded with a line of fragrances in 1993. He was the creative director for French luxury house Hermès from 2003 to 2010, and retired following his 50th-anniversary haute couture show during Paris Fashion Week in January 2020.

Aside from his work in the fashion industry, Gaultier co-presented the first seven series of the television series Eurotrash with Antoine de Caunes from 1993–1997.

Gaultier grew up in a suburb of Paris. His mother was a clerk and his father an accountant. It was his maternal grandmother, Marie Garage, who introduced him to the world of fashion.

He never received formal training as a designer. Instead, he began to send sketches to famous couture stylists at an early age. Pierre Cardin was impressed by his talent and hired him as an assistant in 1970.

Then he worked with Jacques Esterel in 1971 and Jean Patou later that year again worked for Cardin managing the Pierre Cardin boutique in Manila for a year until 1974. Despite Gaultier’s youth, Cardin sent him to Manilla to manage the local office.

Imelda Marcos was one of his clients. He found himself on a “no leave” list and had to pretend to have a family emergency in order to leave. He never returned.

Later Years

The fragrance house included women’s, men’s, and unisex fragrances; a number of flanker fragrances have been released for each line. Jean Paul Gaultier fragrances have been licensed by Puig since 1 January 2016, and were previously licensed by Shiseido subsidiary Beauté Prestige International from 1991 through 31 December 2015.

The BPI license was originally negotiated through 30 June 2016; however, Puig acquired the license for $79.2 million and paid $22.6 million for the early termination of the license. With this purchase, Puig now holds control of both the fashion and fragrance divisions of the Jean Paul Gaultier brand.

The 1993 women’s oriental floral Classique and the 1995 men’s oriental fougere Le Male have been described by the brand as “flagship” products that “represent all the Jean Paul Gaultier values”. Le Male was the top-selling men’s fragrance in the European Union in 2012, and holds a strong market position in Australia and the United States.

As of May 2020, the Classique, Le Male, and Scandal lines are in production.

Perfumer

Francis Kurkdjian

Le Male is a men’s fragrance created by Francis Kurkdjian for Jean Paul Gaultier in 1995. It has been manufactured by Puig since 2016, and was previously manufactured by Shiseido subsidiary Beauté Prestige International from 1995 until 2015. The fragrance was developed as a counterpart to the women’s fragrance Classique, which was introduced in 1993.

A number of flanker fragrances have since been released on the strength of the Le Male name. The most recent fragrance, Le Male Le Parfum, was launched in 2020.

Francis Kurkdjian was born in Paris, France on 14 May 1969 to Armenian parents. Having been exposed to music and dancing at a young age, Francis Kurkdjian wanted to be a ballet dancer during his youth.

However, he failed passing the competition to study at the Paris Opera School of Dance in 1983. Kurkdjian, who already had an interest in perfume making since he was thirteen years old, decided in 1985 to become a perfumer.

In 1990

Kurkdjian entered the Institute Supérieur International du Parfum, de la Cosmétique et de l’Aromatique Alimentaire (ISIPCA), a perfume school located in Versailles, France. He graduated from ISIPCA in 1993 and joined Quest International in Paris the same year.

Kurkdjian continued his studies and obtained a master’s degree from the Paris Institute of Luxury Marketing.

In 1995, at the age of twenty-six, Kurkdjian created Le Male for Jean Paul Gaultier, one of the world’s best-selling perfumes. This became Kurkdjian’s first success at perfume making.

This was followed by more than 40 creations for major fashion designers and houses.

Notes

Top Notes – Mint, Artemesia Bergamot and Cardamon

Middle Notes – Cumin, Orange Blossom, Lavender and Cinnamom

Base Notes – Amber, Vanilla, Cedar, Sandalwood and Tonka Bean.

Description of Notes

• Top notes: Also called the head notes. The scents that are perceived immediately on application of a perfume. Top notes consist of small, light molecules that evaporate quickly. They form a person’s initial impression of a perfume and thus are very important in the selling of a perfume. Examples of top notes include mint, lavender and coriander.
• Middle notes: Also referred to as heart notes. The scent of a perfume that emerges just prior to the dissipation of the top note. The middle note compounds form the “heart” or main body of a perfume and act to mask the often unpleasant initial impression of base notes, which become more pleasant with time. Examples of middle notes include seawater, sandalwood and jasmine.
• Base notes: The scent of a perfume that appears close to the departure of the middle notes. The base and middle notes together are the main theme of a perfume. Base notes bring depth and solidity to a perfume. Compounds of this class of scents are typically rich and “deep” and are usually not perceived until 30 minutes after application. Examples of base notes include tobacco, amber and musk.

What was our Findings

Since 1995, this fragrance has been on the market and it will remain so for a good while yet. You can buy this product for £40+ for a bottle of 125ml aftershave from Fragrance Direct and that’s great value for money. See bottom of the page for special offers.

On our testing, we found that the fragrance longevity was about 8 hours and sometimes longer which is great if you’re keeping those purse strings tight.

The fragrance has a sweet scent of mint with a hint of lavender before a woody scent sings in the back ground and all for 8+ hours – BARGAIN

Reasons to consider when purchasing your Perfume

Description of types of Perfume

• Perfume or Extrait – in English is known as perfume extract, pure perfume, or simply perfume: 15–40% aromatic compounds.
• Esprit of Parfum (ESDP) – 15–30% aromatic compounds, a seldom used strength concentration in between EDP and perfume.
• Eau de parfum (EdP) or parfum de toilette (PdT) – 10–20% aromatic compounds (typically ~15%). Sometimes called “eau de parfum” or “millésime”; parfum de toilette is a less common term, most popular in the 1980s. That is generally analogous to eau de parfum.
• Eau de toilette (EDT) – 5–15% aromatic compounds (typically ~10%); This is the staple for most masculine perfumes.
• Eau de Cologne ( EDC ) – Often simply called cologne: 3–8% aromatic compounds (typically ~5%).
• Eau fraiche – Products sold as “splashes”, “mists”, “veils” and other imprecise terms. These products contain 3% or less aromatic compounds and are diluted with water rather than oil or alcohol.

Once you have purchased your product, where do you store it?.

Well most people will put their perfume in the bathroom or on their bedside cabinet by the window, but this couldn’t be worse for your perfume.

Perfumes hate direct sunshine and damp places like a typical bathroom, so my advise would be to store it in a dark corner of your bedroom and it will last as long as the manufacturer specifications.

Media Section

Jean Paul Gaultier marketing Video

Conclusion

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