Le Male Pride Edition 2026

HAPPY PRIDE Y'ALL! Honestly...doesn't it feel great to be the center of so many people's lives? We literally *exist* and folks cannot stop thinking about us (do you think they wish people actually paid attention to them instead?). People turn themselves inside out to bring us up in conversation, to shower attention on everything we do, to see us in every aspect of society. Imagine dedicating that much mental real estate to a community you loudly & repeatedly say you have no interest in. People think about us more than we think about ourselves! WE are so loved by so, so many people-- most of all, by the people who try to say otherwise. Love you, my sweet angels!

JPG Pride 2026 is sunshine bottled without becoming sugary. Bright neroli, orange blossom, and sparkling citrus create the feeling of warm skin, clean linen, and carefree summer afternoons, while soft woods and musk keep it airy and effortless. It wears like optimism - uncomplicated, inclusive, and quietly joyful. Rather than chasing intensity, it celebrates lightness, making it one of those rare fragrances that simply makes the world feel a little brighter every time you wear it, and in today's climate, we could all use a little bit of that.

wow!! so many Homophobes in here and not a single real review. Fragrantica should screen all the reviews or do something about it, do you all know that almost all fragrances from designers are formulated by gay men or women??? smh

I didn't sampled this one but I will like only because those homophobic bitches hate it lol. Happy pride folks!

Came here for a review of the fragrance. Instead, I was reminded why I hate people.

Has the wrong notes. The website lists Mint, Mimosa, and Almond.

Homophobics gonna hate, stfu bitches!

This opened like PDM Sedley so I was impressed. But the drydown came quickly and the florals really ramped up. It reminded me of Artisan by John Varvatos, which I know people like. But it's way too unisex for me.

Dang, a few negative comments causing this massive amount of a meltdown? Yall are just proving what fragile drama queens you are. You’re really embarrassing yourselves. As if the tacky bottle and hideously ugly pride flag wasn’t embarrassing enough. I see it’s mostly Reddit bots melting down. Typical. Also, “pride month” isn’t a thing anymore. It really wasn’t a thing to begin with, no matter how much the far left media and Hollywood tried to cram it down our throats. Amazing how it ended once the USAID money stopped being funded 😉 And yall wonder why no one supports your cult anymore. Again, no one cares that a designer is gay, why do yall act like that’s some kind of “gotcha?” We know JPG and other designers are gay, NO ONE CARES. You said you just wanted to get married, it’s been 11 years and you can, what are you even fighting for now? To be able to groom and trans kids? To force people to make you a wedding cake against their will? Again, this is why you’ve lost support. People just don’t want this tacky bottle celebrating your sexuality and sex. How many bottles have been made to celebrate straight pride? C’mon, how many? We don’t need “pride” after all, it is a vice. Just because your existence isn’t being celebrated and worshipped doesn’t mean you need “pride,” it means you need to get over yourself and stop being a narcissist.

Yawn! It's funny there's a "gay" version of this as I used to say the origional Le Male was a "right of passage" with gay people back in the day. I also used to say a good gift with purchase—especially for customers who aren't gay—for Le Male would be a t-shirt that reads: "I'm not gay, but my fragrance is." Haha! Initially, I hated(!) LeMale back in the day. I then got a sample with a purchase and grew to like it. Of course, it was reformulated and it hardly lasts on my skin anymore and just doesn't smell like it used to. One thing I am so very tired of is when virtue signaling has to be packaged—or in this case, bottled—for consumers. It's unavoidable in today's "everyone is wonderful" and ultra-greedy corporate environment, but that doesn't mean I have to like or even purchase it. For all of the heterosexuals out there, is there a separate, special version of Le Male that celebrates their "wonderfulness" as well?

I love how the reviewers on here think saying “tHiS dEsIgNeR iS gAy! tHaT dEsIgNeR iS gAy!” is supposed to be some kind of “gotcha.” Literally no one cares if a designer is gay, people just don’t want to see a bottle of cologne that’s all about a person’s sexuality. Like Heroe said, a bunch of priders are just annoying narcissists with nothing better to do so they go out into the streets screaming “LOOK AT ME IM SPECIAL IM GAY GIVE ME ATTENTION!!” That’s the annoying message we get with this tacky bottle.

@115577ea Because narcissists need constant attention. It’s called “pride” for a reason. I’ve known gay people who keep to themselves, don’t flaunt their sexuality in people’s faces, and don’t need constant attention. Or as the narcissistic ones call them “self-hating.”

@Steef250 Wonderfully stated... THANK YOU! 👍 @rgbenbow Who cares if the industry is dominated by "LGBT folks?" That's the least of my worries! Although, if all those folks are so quick to jump on the "ban these..." bandwagon as you are, THAT'S concerning.

@djbethell yawn* the same overused buzzwords. “Fragile” “self loathing” “homophobe” and the classic “you don’t support gays so you must be one!! Check mate I win!!” Sooo boring and repetitive.

no one cares whether you're gay or not. so why are you so eager to rub your homosexuality in people's faces?

Man, can we please bring back old Basenotes? Where comments are refreshing, informative, genuine, and many times written by truly intellectual people? No? Ah because these days all that matters are metrics, algorithms, and a bunch of nobodies fighting for the attention they're deprived of on daily basis, since their poorly planned births to now. Got it! The incels will stop at nothing to get their fucking points across. Fragrantica has become yet platform like Reddit or the YT comments where the most despised people that existed in every classroom or gathering now get to blurt out their stupidity that has nothing to do with the topics at hand. You know exactly who you are, and how hated you are. You might not know it because the majoirty decent people will spend their energy elsewhere. But those whom I speak of? Cancer. All of them. Infecting every fucking thing they cross paths with. Their relationships, interactions, all of the sbove. You'll give the Popeye, Gladiator, Kilt bullshit 4.5 stars, but when it comes to something that's a symbol of hope and respresentation for one the most unneccesarily targeted / abused groups of HUMAN BEINGS in history, and this cycle continues to this day, then you just have to stop to make sure that the ratings are noticeably low for no reason. Head over to Lattafa, Armaf, Dumont, and Afnan, just to name a few, and you'll find these same fuckers ranting and raving about about the cheapest, most obnoxious, in your face garbage that's infected the market. They are what they wear, eat, and say ;)

Dang, what has happened to this review.. @JackSchitz, you summarized it pretty good. I came here because I wanted to know if it had a other smell compared to the OG one, seems like I thought wrong. The thing that differentiates this, are the people that get fed up over a f*cking bottle.. really? Of course its for pride month, so what? How can you even get fed up over that, that a designer releases a promotion for this month? Are you all not grown adults? Its almost embarrassing that you are all males, shows me why the whole term "hate all men" exists again. And anyways, do you guys now that JPG is gay? So what? why is the brand not allowed to embrace that modern time? Why do all of you raise your c**ks just because a designer releases a promo for this? Oh and please, stop the rant over it, the fact that the lot of you started this shows off your fragile egos. You get fed up over a bottle, a brand that releases a pride month promo. And that is not even debatable. Its crazy how easily some of you get ragebaited from the beginning by the bottle and now the comments, wow you guys really are embarrassing. You could not just move on? could someone review this? Is it different compared to the base L'homme? EXCEPT FOR ITS BOTTLE???

so many woke twinks in these comments. i really dont care for the fragrance, i do however hate when lgbtq people try to gain attention by being offended by every little thing. grow up! the world isnt going to behave the way you tell them to just because just like to take it in the rear. im not saying anything bad about homosexual people but please understand that nobody gives a flying f* about you sexuality and you dont have to point out you are gay anywhere you go. you dony see straight people wearing shirts or fragrances that say "Im straight" because again nobody cares. You do however see twinka wearing rainbow flags and acting like they deserve the world just because they like to take it in the butt. if this comment angered you take your diary and write that inside because literally nobody else gives a f*.

How boring. Hundreds of years pass and it’s the same old insults lol. Non-hetero sexuality is as naturally occurring as heterosexuality, morons. We don’t choose our sexuality, just like you don’t choose yours. That said, you are choosing to be ignorant and showing your ass (so to speak) for all to see. Being this hateful will age you, bros. To the gay/queer folks in here soft launching their internalised homophobia to the public: it’s great that you have it good enough to enjoy the luxury of ignorance, but do try picking up a goddamn book sometime. It’s the pride movement and pride merch like this perfume that you have to thank for the right to be an out and proud numpty. Embarrassed for you all - happy Pride x

DOES THIS SHIT SMELLS GOOD OR NOT?! THAT ́S WHAT IS IMPORTANT, NOT ONE ́S SEXUALITY. GROW THE F... UP!! EDIT: ALSO, WHO GIVES A F..... ABOUT THE BOTTLE?!? I ́M NO PUFF, BUT JUST LIVE A AND LET LIVE. GAY PEOPLE HAVE EVERY RIGHT FOR LOVING CO....K, HAS I HAVE OR ANY OTHER STRAIGHT GUY FOR LOVING PUS.... STOP HATING PEOPLE FOR THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION. AGAIN, DOES THIS SHIT SMELLS NICE OR NOT?!? THAT ́S WHAT SHOULD BE THE COMMENTS ABOUT!!! EDIT 2: AND HOW MANY OF THIS GAY HATING IDIOTS HAVE IPHONES OR APPLE PRODUCTS? AND WHO MADE APPLE AND THE IPHONE?? STEVE JOBS, A PUFF. ALSO, WHOW MANY OF THIS FUCKERS WORNED DIOR, ARMANY, GIVENCHY, YSL OR TOM FORDS PERFUMES?! ALL MADE BY GAYS!! BUNCH OF FUC.....ING MORONS.

First of all it is sad to read all those comments, full of hate. This is exactly why we need pride. Why you all feel so threatened? About the fragrance: tried it today at Sephora. Opens up quite weird, I can't understand what I am smelling, for some reason I think I get figs and I can't tell if this could be caterorized as a male or a female scent. Fast forward to 7 hours later and this is still going strong. For some reason the dry down strongly reminds me of Womanity by Mugler, but more refined and not that strong - just for the record I love Womanity. Worth a try, not sure if this is groundbreaking or full bottle worthy.

With each new comment @fragRantguy keeps underling his own visceral homophobic mix of repressed personal attraction, deep-seated prejudice and fear, then calls it "winning". And all over a perfume (the irony of which clearly goes right over his tired, little noggin). The poor lad is obsessed. In the words of the perfumed ponce himself "Because narcissists need constant attention." Meanwhile, education is a wonderful thing: https://youtu.be/AFTGgRb3Um8?si=Brh-nV6bmNBGtF7A

Please somebody need to fix it this is not the right fragrance notes somebody just copy and paste from previous years this is going to be like the addition from 2020 the first edition and is going to go back to the original men perfume created by Francis Kurkdjian this is so wrong to base this on previous years instead of waiting for an official notice from the official website this is already available at different countries and they all say it's lavender and vanilla

If being gay is your entire identity, you really need to develop a personality. And i'm saying that as someone who actually is gay. How can you on one hand claim we're "born this way" and on the other hand be "proud". It's not an accomplishment, and furthermore me being gay has nothing to do with the perfumes i choose to wear. This is just the gays being used as a cash grab.

Any fragrance that angers haters and religious bigots for being proud of what they enjoy privately is good enough for me. Please cry more, snowflakes. I couldn't care less about what others prefer to love, so I am going to let them enjoy their Pride Month. Smells like fresh aquatic salty tears in the morning.

Thank you to all the people who actually understand WHY "Pride" is such an important aspect of queer culture! And a giant FUCK YOU to all the fragile, 1960's minded idiots who spread uninformed hate and then get confused when we fight back. Happy Pride!! 🏳️🌈

@fragrantguy and @heroe you both sound so very triggered and fragile. Show me a homophobe and I'll show you a self-loathing gay guy who is still hiding in his closet. You do release you have both just exposed yourselves, right? 🤦🏼♂️

This one is following the current trend of fig, fig leaves, coconut, and green notes. Is it nicely blended, last good amount of time and nicely project. I haven't tried the last Pride flankers, so i can't tell about similarities.

The comments here are depressing. Fragrantica is overrun with this stupid schoolyard attention seeking nonsense, it really detracts from the enjoyment of it. What happened to talking about fragrances? Isnt that why we are here?

You know how they say never judge a book by its cover, well I wouldn’t mind trying this one, it might be one of the best colognes ever made. If it smelt good I would buy it even though I don’t endorse that lifestyle.

Let’s not hate, Many great designers were bisexual or gay. Let others exist in a zone where they feel loved. At least don’t go out of your way to make them feel ashamed and alienated, We are all humans.

pssst, don't tell these fragrance bros that all these designers are gay. and so are the perfumers. and for that matter anyone that has an acccount somewhere to review perfumes is at least a little gay.

Fragrantica, ban these homophobes. Review bombing a fragrance just terrible and shows how stupid some are. Bros, you realize the perfume industry is domimated by LGBT folks? Fragrance has no gender?

This is a fragrance reviewing site, not a site for small minded imbeciles, anyways, I just have to say that this is a really good fresh fragrance and one of the best from Gautier

Let’s keep things cival folks. Fragrances were never meant to cause turmoil like this. I truly just want to know a good review on this because I enjoy JPG stuff.

Brand owner was gay .....deal with it. You don't have to buy a perfume that supports gay community. There is literally 1000's of other perfumes to choose from

@bbnana half of ur fragrance collection was likely made by gay people lmao. Keep hating on a group of people who haven't done shit to you tho 🤷♂️

Another year, another collection of barely sapient idiots who don't even respect the Maison enough to realize Gaultier is a gay man.

yall know jean paul gaultier is gay right? like every single jpg perfume that you incels adore is made by the same gay man 😭😭

Homophobic Le Male Elixir fanboys roast this release and the brand but they’ll keep using Le Male Elixir 🤣

Comment threads like this only reenforce my great disdain for the human race.

Is anyone gonna review the fragrance? Haha

Btw guys Gaultier himself is gay. Suprise.