Jean Paul Gaultier

Jean Paul Gaultier has designed since 1976 and became one of the world's great couturiers without ever attending fashion school. Inclusivity and irreverence run through everything he does, built on the belief that different is beautiful, and he has dressed pop icons from Madonna to Kylie Minogue. In 1993 he turned to fragrance with Classique, a blend of vanilla, orange blossom, and ginger housed in a now-iconic curved bottle, and its success was immediate. Its masculine counterpart Le Male, built on fresh lavender and mint, became a best-seller of its own, and the line, now part of Puig, has kept that instinct for instantly appealing scents.

The signature is warm and addictive, weaving aromatic and sweet character over vanilla with a citrus lift. Lavender gives that familiar barbershop coolness, cardamom adds spice, and blood orange and mandarin brighten the top. Start with Le Male or Scandal for the house at its most recognizable, or explore Pride and the Le Male Pride Edition for its celebratory side. Gaultier makes fragrance the way he makes fashion, bold, sensual, and impossible to ignore.