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Le Male
Le Male arrived in 1995 and promptly challenged expectations of what a masculine fragrance could be. Created by Francis Kurkdjian for Jean Paul Gaultier, it combined traditional barbershop freshness with sweetness, sensuality, and theatricality in a way that felt entirely new.
Jean Paul Gaultier
Composed by Francis Kurkdjian · 1995
A career built on apprenticeship and humility
Béatrice Piquet
“I hope I never find it because it would suggest that everything is at an end.”
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Stéphane Humbert Lucas
“I do not invent perfumes, I rearrange them and invite them to combine, I am a matchmaker, a couturier of the invisible.”
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Sylvaine Delacourte
“A lot of people were waiting for me to work on a guerlinade "seal" or "gourmand perfumes" but I wanted a new challenge, that's why I decided to work on white muscs!”
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