Fleur du Mâle returned in September 2026, nineteen years after Francis Kurkdjian created it. Jean Paul Gaultier is selling it again as a 125 ml eau de toilette, at first on its own website alone. The house files the fragrance under amber floral and names only three materials: petitgrain, orange blossom, coumarin.
The house assigns only three materials to stages: petitgrain on top, orange blossom at the heart, coumarin in the base. It files the whole under amber floral, apart from the aromatic amber of Le Mâle.
What the house declares
Petitgrain opens on a hesperidic, green freshness, with accents that are almost crystalline. Orange blossom unfolds soft, solar and sensual, joined by a delicate fougere that holds the masculine reading. Coumarin closes on facets half tobacco, half hay.
What the label declares
The ingredient list names materials that the house assigns to no stage: bergamot oil, Ceylon cinnamon bark, Virginia cedar oil, vanillin. Coumarin appears there. A colorant, CI 60730, closes the list.
What stays outside the declared accord
The materials read on the label receive no stage: they stay outside the declared accord. The juniper that several lists lend to the reissue is nowhere on the French house page, whose label carries Virginia cedar.