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This year Jean Paul Gaultier Summer editions have two guests and not just anybody: Betty Boop and Popeye. They met only once before - in a 1930s cartoon, it was torrid. Now they appear for the first time on the iconic tin-can in the guise of Gaultier’s fetishes: the pin-up and the sailor. So Gaultier! The pairing has a certain inevitability about it. This becomes obvious in the comic strip created especially for the season, when Betty and Popeye meet Jean Paul Gaultier in Paris. These popular, likeable, eternal heroes also fit slap bang with the mood of the Eaux Fraîches, two new fragrances created especially for the occasion. So, let’s raise our tin cans and shout “Cheers”.

 

A torrid, sugar syrup. An unusual blend assembled around white flowers created by perfumer Daphné Bugey. Ginger, indivisible from Classique, is found as an overdose of gourmand: crystalline, reminiscent of a lemon sorbet; sharp, yes, but sweetened with sugar cane juice. Sugar cane, with a sensual edge from the Labdanum Neo.

 

Vanilla is also present. But musk has the final word and rushes to let the brain know we’ll be back for more.