Jean Paul Gaultier presents Scandal Intense in 2025, composed by Daphné Bugey and Fabrice Pellegrin, with the house also crediting Nicolas Bonneville, within the Scandal line. It describes a spicy amber floral accord, carried by a vanilla absolute, a gourmand cardamom and an explosion of ylang-ylang. The bottle reprises the leg-shaped silhouette, striated and purple, under a pink velvet cap.
Top note
The house places cardamom at the opening of Scandal Intense, described as gourmand, and says nothing further about this tier.
Heart note
Ylang-ylang holds the heart, according to the house, which evokes a sensuality expressed from the very first moments, in an explosion it calls extravagant.
Base note
The house notes a vanilla absolute in the base, presented as the central element of the olfactory journey, described as creamy and luxurious.
What the label declares
The label lists vanillin, which corroborates the vanilla announced in the base, and Cananga odorata oil, the botanical name for ylang-ylang. It reveals a bergamot in the form of peel oil, absent from the structure published by the house, accompanied by linalool, limonene and linalyl acetate.
Coumarin and hydroxycitronellal reinforce an amber and powdery dimension that the official accord does not detail; Juniperus virginiana oil, a Virginia cedar, tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes, an amber woody note, and hexamethylindanopyran, a musk, also appear there. The colorants CI 60730, CI 14700, CI 19140 and CI 17200 give the juice its hue.
Competing pyramids
Wikiparfum offers a more detailed reading, with bergamot and mandarin at the top, ylang-ylang, sambac jasmine and cardamom at the heart, and vanilla, benzoin, cashmeran and cedar at the base; bergamot and cedar there align with the label. Wikiparfum classifies the fragrance among florals, while the house presents it as spicy amber floral.