Fleur du Mâle is the men's Eau de Toilette that Francis Kurkdjian composed in 2007 for Jean Paul Gaultier, twelve years after Le Mâle: an orange blossom carried in the heart of a men's fragrance, between the green freshness of petitgrain and the powdery sweetness of coumarin. A bust lacquered in white, a campaign by Jean-Baptiste Mondino with Andres Velencoso. Discontinued, it returns in 2026 under a formula the house has not published.
Doré (Auparfum) sees it as an almost unwearable oddity, yet audacious; Dunckley (Candy Perfume Boy) sees a fragrance pushed to the extreme, dead too young.
Olfastory’s review
Auparfum: Snow White with lurid leanings
Jeanne Doré, in June 2007, describes an innocent, fresh and sparkling opening, where the clean fougère accord gives way to an army of animalic and powdery notes, down to a suffocating plaster-like smell. She makes it an almost unwearable oddity, whose eccentricity, audacity and cheekiness at least have the merit of standing out from the crowd.
The Candy Perfume Boy: dead too young
Thomas Dunckley, in October 2011, ranks it among those gone too soon that are not forgotten: every part of Fleur du Mâle is pushed to the extreme, green and woody petitgrain, overdosed orange blossom, like fresh pollen. He judges it very well made, whereas a reader, put off by the coumarin, finds no orange blossom in it at all.