Admirer II

Admirer II is Perfume Parlour's budget reading of Jean Paul Gaultier Le Beau Le Parfum, the 2022 Quentin Bisch and Sonia Constant EDP flanker that took the 2019 Le Beau's tight coconut-tonka skeleton and built it out into a richer, more substantial composition. PP's pyramid mirrors the original community pyramid: a pineapple-led top with iris adding a powdery floral nuance, ginger and cypress contributing a fresh-spicy lift, a coconut-and-woody heart, and a base built on tonka bean, sandalwood, amber, and a quiet ambergris finish. The first hour is the strongest match: pineapple comes forward as juicy and bright, with the iris keeping it from reading too candied, and the ginger-cypress combination adding a sharper aromatic edge. By the heart the coconut takes centre stage in its now-familiar Le Beau lactonic-creamy form, supported by the woody facet that gives this flanker its key difference from the original. The dry-down trades on the rich amber-tonka-sandalwood structure, with the ambergris adding a soft skin-musk finish that holds the dry-down for longer than the 2019 original ever managed. Performance is the budget compromise: five to seven hours of moderate sillage rather than the eight-to-ten-plus hours wearers report on the JPG bottle. The character is sweet-fruity masculine with an autumnal-evening lean, and the seasons skew autumn and winter with formal, date, and dinner-wear as the natural settings. The honest caveat: at fifty millilitres for under twenty pounds the dupe's coconut-amber depth is shallower and shorter-lasting than the JPG original, which trades on its luxurious creamy-resinous richness as a key part of the appeal. For wearers curious about a 2022 EDP-strength designer pick before committing to the JPG bottle, this is a faithful enough sketch. PP labels this page as a 'La Beau (2019)' dupe, but the pineapple-iris-ginger-amber-ambergris pyramid maps to the 2022 Le Beau Le Parfum, not the simpler 2019 Le Beau formula - we cross-reference to the 2022 release as the more accurate target. Sits next to other budget sweet-amber masculine dupes in the dupe-house neighbourhood, while the original sits with Mancera Roses Vanille, Versace Eros Parfum, and Yves Saint Laurent Y Le Parfum in the modern designer-niche sweet-amber masculine conversation.