Gaultier 2

Terribly masculine with its amber and leathery notes, Gaultier 2 is also beautifully feminine with its gourmand and vanilla notes. Presented in an advertising campaign and a case of unexpected sobriety for a couturier fond of provocation, Gaultier 2 aims to be innovative and pure like the skin-to-skin encounter between man and woman.

Gaultier 2, or the fragrance of a sensual encounter between man and woman

Seductive sailors or devilishly sexy women — one cannot say that the communication around Jean-Paul Gaultier perfumes has been discreet until now. Yet with this new perfume Gaultier 2, one is surprised to discover a very stripped-down packaging accompanied by communication based on aesthetics and the beauty of the image, far more than on irony or humorous provocation.

For Gaultier 2, Jean-Paul Gaultier seeks sobriety in order to better emphasize the innovation of the composition and the olfactory translation of an intense emotion. For at its core, Gaultier 2 perfectly symbolizes the fragile balance between a man and a woman, but also between the masculinity and femininity that each person holds.

This fragility and this evocative power are thus staged in a carefully crafted advertisement in which the man and the woman lose and find each other to the rhythm of a frenzied choreography. Has Jean-Paul Gaultier become a poet-perfumer of feelings with Gaultier 2?

Gaultier 2 and its masculine, feminine and above all oriental and gourmand notes

There is no need to look for the elaborate glass architecture of Classique or Le Mâle in this new Gaultier 2 bottle; its very square opulence only lets us glimpse the beauty of the amber juice within. A bottle neither masculine nor feminine, but as shared as the fragrant composition itself, in the end...

We enter this Gaultier 2 fragrance with soft, sugary, pastry-like femininity built around notes of sweet almond, amaretto and macaron. Then orange blossom blends with virile, aromatic lavender while dispersing amid a deep, green and very floral tuberose note. The gourmand quality mingles with the flower to better bewitch us in its extreme depths. For the animalic and ultra-virile base notes of musk, labdanum, amber and coumarin can do nothing to save us from addiction to this juice, as sensual as two skins meeting. With vanilla displaying its final roundness, we find ourselves completely captive to this Gaultier 2.

Gaultier 2, orchestrated around musk, amber and vanilla, plays on territory that had until now been kept quite separate — that of floral and gourmand feminine scents, but also of aromatic or animalic masculine notes. At once innovative while drawing on the great fragrant accords of the past, Gaultier 2 is a true olfactory surprise, to be savored without moderation like an amber cake!