Scandal Pour Homme Intense is the Eau de Parfum Intense that Jean Paul Gaultier launched in 2025 in the Scandal pour Homme line, signed by Quentin Bisch, Christophe Raynaud and Nathalie Gracia-Cetto. The house ranks it among aromatic leathery woods: a fresh clary sage, a soft leather, a burning vetiver. The black striated bottle, topped with a golden crown, comes in 50, 100 and 150 ml.
Jean Paul Gaultier declares only three notes, under the headings top, heart and base, in this order: clary sage, leather, vetiver. Trucs de mec tiers them the same way. Wikiparfum counts nine, without tiers, around the same trio, read here as supporting raw materials.
Clary sage in the opening
The opening belongs to clary sage, whose aromatic freshness the house highlights, saying it takes on amber inflections here. Wikiparfum adds a bergamot and a ginger, two raw materials that explain the bright and slightly spicy side that Trucs de mec notes at the opening.
A soft leather at the heart
The heart belongs to leather, which the house wants soft, sensual and balsamic, tender and intense at once: the pleasure of leather in a fragrance, it writes. Wikiparfum places beside it a cedar and juniper berries, dry wood and a resinous note that support the leathery effect.
A burning vetiver in the base
Vetiver, the signature of the Scandal pour Homme line, holds the base. The house calls it burning, a woody note that induces vertigo, and outrageously velvety. Wikiparfum adds tonka bean and vanilla, inherited from the first Eau de Toilette, which soften the end of the development.
What remains outside the declared accord
Black pepper and caramel, attributed to Scandal pour Homme since the Eau de Toilette, appear neither at the house nor at Wikiparfum for the Intense. The list of ingredients confirms vanillin and coumarin, without any source declaring a caramel note.
What the label declares
The house publishes its list of ingredients in full disclosure, opened by denatured alcohol, water and the word Parfum. Next come the transparent wood of tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes, a lemon zest oil with its limonene, bergamot zest oil, musky hexamethylindanopyran and the linalool of lavender.
Vanillin and coumarin carry the sweetness of the base. A lavender oil or extract, a geranium flower oil, a spearmint oil with its carvone and Atlas cedar make up the aromatic and woody bouquet.
Patchouli oil and sclareol, a molecule drawn from clary sage, ground the announced note. A cinnamon bark oil, eugenol and cinnamal bring the spice; camphor and anethole, the freshness. Four colorants tint the amber juice, and a UV filter preserves its color.