Gaultier Divine Le Parfum

An accord rather than a tiered structure

The house does not break down Gaultier Divine Le Parfum into three fully detailed tiers: it publishes a salty note in the top, a floral bouquet in the heart and benzoin in the base.

The salty note

The house places a salty note in the opening, without specifying its exact composition or the molecule used.

The floral bouquet

The heart is a floral bouquet that the house sums up, in its presentation text, as a spectacular lily and a luminous frangipani.

The benzoin

The base chosen by the house comes down to a single name, benzoin, a resin the brand associates with the amber facet of the composition.

What the label declares

The ingredient list published by the house names several natural materials: bergamot and lemon essential oils, patchouli oil, clove oil, ylang-ylang and jasmine. Vanillin also appears, with no place among the announced notes.

It lists a synthetic woody molecule, a UV filter, a stabilizer and four colorants, a yellow, a red, a blue and a violet, which tint the juice. The rest belongs to the allergen declaration, from linalool to coumarin and eugenol. No lilial, no lyral.

What is left out

Akigalawood, coconut and heliotrope, sometimes attributed to Divine Le Parfum, are not among the notes published by the house. Bergamot, absent from those notes, does appear in the ingredient list, as an essential oil.