On skin I get little to no leather, which leaves something resembling a citrus designer scent, but executed through a delicate lens. Another reviewer pointed out a sort of dentistry smell. My uncle is a dentist, so I spent a lot of time at his surgery as a kid, and I agree, it's there, although I may not have put my finger on what it reminded me of. It's a subtle but strange scent, the more I smell the more I feel there are clashing notes in here, but it's so gentle perhaps it works anyway. It's not for me but I respect it.

Culinary, spicy, almost seafoody if you shove your nose into your skin, but amazing.

It's incredible how much a nose can develop and learn to distinguish perfume notes. Never has this seemed more apparent to me than now, having just sprayed GPM on my inner elbows while lazing around on a Sunday. The first time I got my nose on this in the boutique on Avenue Victor Hugo (RIP) it was on card, and I smelled almost the whole range with the wonderful sales assistant (my first time experiencing Frédéric Malle fragrances). I immediately thought "toothpaste blast"! Months later I got my hands on three 10mls in a set, and wore it properly, and of course I noticed a whole lot more, notably that the dry down was vastly different to the opening, and there was more complexity to the minty geranium (although it was still giving me Colgate freshness). I noticed some sort of fixative base after a few hours, my least favourite bit of this scent. Now, today, I get spices! My first thoughts were "woah, this is skanky". I never noticed the skank before. Perhaps it's the cloves. I've been delving into retro spicy scents recently (Tabu, Équipage, Derby, Opium, Sybaris, Mandate, Parfum Sacré...) plus some less retro ones (Serge Noire, Fate Man, Figment Woman, Heaven Can Wait, 8 88...) and so I feel like my nose has started perceiving spices differently. Géranium Pour Monsieur seems like a different scent now, a shifting, complex, earthy, spicy, green, foresty bouquet. While the mint is there, it's far from my mind. Of course I shouldn't blow my own sophisticated nose horn too much, this is actually a testament to the genius of this perfume. I'm really taken aback by how much can come from a simple little flacon. It's never going to feel like me, as in I don't think I'm ever going to buy a full bottle, because I just don't wear it that much. It's more olfactive art to me than the type of scent I reach for, but what a marvel, honestly.

A dazzling, pretty, fruity-fresh opening, dry and austere, fast turns into a relentless musk onslaught as the berries depart leaving a grey-beige fug (raspberry ketone overdose?).

I've heard people I trust rave about Céline (I'm looking at you previous reviewer on your podcast wink wink), so I got the sample pack. They're all very well done, but there's nothing that makes my heart flutter. It's like they're trying to outchanel Chanel. Which, why not! But aside from the funny playdohey Dans Paris (absolutely not what it smells like dans Paris, I live there - piss, piss everywhere... and fag smoke) making me chuckle a bit, I feel nothing about these perfumes. I'm wearing Reptile, which is a dramatic name for something which essentially smells like I wore (insert vetiver perfume name) a few hours ago or even yesterday and am now left with a creamy remnant.

This opens like a saccharine, "teenage girl's" perfume (for want of a much less loaded expression), but constantly morphs In and out of various genres, before setting on a sort of musky, cashmeran dry down, not a million miles away from B-612, by design I guess. It's good, and interesting, but it's not something I'd really consider putting into my rotation. I'm not sure who this would suit (not that it matters), as it gets pretty serious and plummy, and the musky base gets almost murky, rubbery and/or plasticky, so all in all it's not very vain or naive, it would take a self-assured person to pull it off. Still, it's a welcome change from Chris Maurice's constant production line of slightly tweaked, sickly "oud" scents, which I found interesting, then tedious, and now ignorable.

Generic designer aromachemicals. So boring. Glad I only got a set of 7mls, all of this range are bland AF.

Opens okay, dries down to a generic designery amber fixative. Zzzzzz