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What think of the perfume Le Male (Jean Paul Gaultier)

post #1 of 27
2/14/09 at 9:32pm
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Opinions please !!!!
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post #2 of 27
2/14/09 at 9:59pm
My personal opinion is that I dont like anything that JPG has done. I think all of his masculines are really Unisex. I never found any of them suitable for someone with a rustic appeal.
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post #3 of 27
2/14/09 at 10:02pm
Personally
I dont like it due to its sweetness
but the ladies love it
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post #4 of 27
2/14/09 at 11:12pm
There are over 100 reviews, probably a good place to start.
I like it in small doses but its rarely cool enough here to wear it.
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post #5 of 27
2/14/09 at 11:41pm
Bought a big 125ml bottle - which is my first big bottle purchase and also the biggest mistake ever. Hated it now. Think of selling it, but am thinking to do that is like hoisting a defective product onto someone else.
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post #6 of 27
2/15/09 at 12:50am
plasticine headache inducing fragrance. I cant stand it. It also upset my stomach.
On the other hand I admit it was a novelty, totally different from everything else available.
The bottle is tacky as well.
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post #7 of 27
2/15/09 at 1:13am
I tried it at Norstrom last month. It is so sweet that it overwhelmed me. It's the kind of thick, sugary sweetness. Just not my thing.
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post #8 of 27
2/15/09 at 1:22am
I agree, too heavy/sweet. I think the Bulgari 1995 scent is a MUCH better alternative to this. Has the musk/sweet overtone, but not overdone, just right, and tickles your senses, whereas Le Male splats itself with a heavy tone.
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post #9 of 27
2/15/09 at 3:29am
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Originally Posted by Basteri View Post

plasticine headache inducing fragrance. I cant stand it. It also upset my stomach.
On the other hand I admit it was a novelty, totally different from everything else available.
The bottle is tacky as well.

I think it's novelty has worn thin through the years -
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post #10 of 27
2/15/09 at 3:37am
Listerine + Lavender
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post #11 of 27
2/15/09 at 4:22am
I like it. I'm a fan of sweet ambery scents. However don't recommend buying it due to its over popularity and old fashioned style.
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post #12 of 27
2/15/09 at 8:08am
I like Le Male, but it does smell a whole lot like the old Arrid XXtra dry to me. I think that's the musk?
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post #13 of 27
2/15/09 at 10:22am
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I love Le Male, is tender, very sweet , warm and sensual !!
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post #14 of 27
2/15/09 at 10:23am
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Originally Posted by abubakr_al-misky View Post

My personal opinion is that I dont like anything that JPG has done. I think all of his masculines are really Unisex. I never found any of them suitable for someone with a rustic appeal.

Yes !! seems unisex .
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post #15 of 27
2/15/09 at 10:25am
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seems unisex, you´re right !!
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post #16 of 27
2/15/09 at 6:13pm
its one of the least masculine fragrances i've ever smelled, and the bottle is supremely tacky and homoerotic. Fail on both ends.
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post #17 of 27
2/15/09 at 8:28pm
Honestly when I first got this
I hated it like no other
I still do but not so much just because it has excellent longevity and women like it I guess ??
still not my type of fragrance
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post #18 of 27
2/15/09 at 8:34pm
I have Cuba Gold, which seems to be very similar. I find myself much more drawn to frags like Amour de Cacao or Escada Collection these days. I find Cuba Gold to be a bit "synthetic" but mostly poorly balanced or "rough." If I want tobacoo, I usually reach for Michael for Men (Kors). But when I first started out I thought Cuba Gold was great, because I was used to stuff like Aramis, Stetson, etc.
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post #19 of 27
2/15/09 at 8:59pm
To me this is not a perfume, it's just a scent and one that I don't like at all!

Sorry.
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post #20 of 27
2/15/09 at 9:24pm
Histoires de Parfums CASANOVA is similar but nicer!
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post #21 of 27
2/16/09 at 12:43am
Long- lasting, good ingredients and notes, yet I wouldn't wear it, since it tends to be quite sweet slightly to overpowering on my skin. But, it might actually work better on someone else.
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post #22 of 27
2/16/09 at 2:16am
One of the reasons I used to think I hate perfume...
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post #23 of 27
2/23/09 at 7:02pm
I don't understand all of the hate. I love Le Male and I catch myself sniffing my wrist a lot when I have it on. The sillage and longevity are excellent and the compliments are always there, what's not to love?
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post #24 of 27
2/23/09 at 7:04pm
I don't like it, but I do like Fleur de Male.
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post #25 of 27
2/23/09 at 7:05pm
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I've never hated it as much as others, but then again I never owned a bottle either... [/shrug]
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post #26 of 27
2/23/09 at 8:01pm
It was a very innovative fragrance when it first came out, back in the previous centuary. Nothing had smelled like it before. It was instantly very modern, yet retained "the bones" of a classic barber shop scent structure and "feel". The sweetness combined with the heavy handed vanilla base was delicious and very much loved by the ladies. It also kickstarted the "metrosexual movement" and thus began a trend in fragrance that created many immitators ever since. A trend that has hardly died down even now.
So all in all, it was (and is) a true classic scent that was loved by many. It was a very pleasant and captivating scent. However the problem became those "many".... Every Tom, Dick, Harry, Larry, their brothers and cousins all started wearing it. And even worse many of those "many" used it in abundance. They had no descretion when spraying it on. It was almost as if they were applying it on with an industrial sprayer. So ... instead of the lovely fragrance it was, it became this weapon, bludgeoning every one in it's path with that "killer sillage" that every second person had on. That fact unfortunately killed the luv for that fragrance that the people with sensible spray trigger fingers had for this fragrance , once and for all. What a pitty that some people always make it their mission in life to spoil it for the rest of us. Or maybe they are just oblivious ... but they shouldn't be !
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post #27 of 27
2/23/09 at 10:59pm
burberry touch and le male are strikingly similar in their dry downs.
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