Jean Paul Gaultier "La Belle" Le Parfum


Unlike the original JPG "La Belle", I don’t get pear-flavored gummy bears at all with this one.

Both the cinnamon and the bitter woodiness, subtle in the background of the original La Belle, play the main role in "La Belle" Le Parfum. 

Mysterious, smokey and deep night-time scent. Not a safe blind buy.

To me, this is a combination of the 3 following scents, each one stacked over the previous one:

#1: Inside an abandoned mansion with very old and dark wood furniture.

#2: That furniture was recently polished with a strong smelling industrial grade product. Windows are closed.

#3: After being polished, that furniture was violently attacked with a squirt gun charged with cherry cola. 

I just can't shake the visual image of my description above out of my head whenever I smell La Belle Le Parfum. And someone really went crazy with that cherry cola squirt gun.

On the topic of squirt guns, did you know that the Super Soaker, the famous and powerful squirt gun, was invented by a scientist who worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory? And it was invented by accident! 

Lonnie Johnson was at home working on a heat pump. A leak in the pump shot a burst of water across the room and Johnson immediately recognized the squirt gun potential in what had happened. 

Read more about Lonnie Johnson, his other inventions, and how he came up with the Super Soaker here.

Click here if you're interested in reading my post on the original JPG "La Belle".



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