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Drama Queen

Drama Queen

Inspired by Scandal, Jean Paul Gaultier

50 ml glass bottle (Eau de Parfum)

278,00 kr
278,00 kr
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Inspired by: Scandal, Jean Paul Gaultier
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  • Handcrafted
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PRODUCT DETAILS

Eau de parfum, 50 ml, made with roughly 20% fragrance oil, handmade in small batches, vegan and cruelty free. It costs €25, the same price across our whole affordable dupe range, whatever the original behind it. From €49 the shipping is on us, and delivery runs 2 to 5 working days.

Jean Paul Gaultier sells Scandal at that same eau de parfum strength, and ours keeps that richness rather than thinning it out. The honeyed sweetness is the accord we went after when building this alternative.

Longevity runs 6 to 8 hours. Fifteen days to swap Drama Queen for something else if it does not suit you.

NOTES

Top notes

Blood orange, mandarin orange

Heart notes

Honey, orange blossom, gardenia, jasmine, peach

Base notes

Beeswax, patchouli, liquorice, caramel

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Drama Queen is our perfume dupe of Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal, made for anyone who loves that syrupy, honeyed opening and wants to wear it as often as they like. It opens bright and fruity, moves into a warm floral heart, then settles into something darker and sweeter in the base.

The honey pulled through orange and gardenia is what makes it instantly recognisable: sweet and a little sticky rather than fresh or citrusy in the usual sense. Once the fruit fades the drydown turns darker and denser, so the last few hours smell quite different from the first.

Scandal is one of Jean Paul Gaultier's most talked-about releases, and Drama Queen is our own fragrance built to sit close to it rather than mimic it note for note. It stays in that syrupy, honeyed lane the whole way through, with a resinous accord that holds as a dense, warm signature. That single-minded sweetness is what sets it apart from the clean, fruity fragrances it shares a shelf with.

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Ferhat

Drama Queen är en otroligt fin doft. Den känns elegant, feminin och samtidigt väldigt sensuell. Jag blev verkligen imponerad av kvaliteten och hur länge doften sitter kvar på huden. En väldigt lyckad parfym som jag gärna rekommenderar!

Drama Queen is an incredibly beautiful fragrance. It feels elegant, feminine, and at the same time very sensual. I was genuinely impressed by the quality and how long the fragrance lasts on the skin. A very successful perfume that I would happily recommend!

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Noela Miskic

Pretty good perfume. Smells very similar to Scandal for sure, it's strong and lasts long

Perfume concentration

EDT, EDP or EXDP - what you are actually buying

The difference between these labels is not quality but how much perfume oil sits in the bottle. That decides how long the scent stays on your skin and how far it travels.

EDT Eau de Toilette 5 to 15% perfume oil

The lightest of the three. It opens fresh and fast, but fades after three to five hours. Pleasant in heat and at the office, as long as you top it up during the day.

Our choiceEDP Eau de Parfum ~20% perfume oil

The middle ground that became the standard. It lasts six to eight hours, one spray in the morning is enough, and the scent stays recognisable into the evening without filling the room.

EXDP Extrait de Parfum 20 to 40% perfume oil

The densest form, worn in drops, and it can last over ten hours. In return it loses that easy opening, and the price per bottle climbs the most.

Why we chose EDP

Every Chez Pierre perfume is made in Eau de Parfum concentration, with 20% perfume oil. That is not by accident.

An eau de toilette would mean carrying the bottle with you and refreshing the scent after lunch. An extrait would push the price up, and only someone counting hours would notice the gain. EDP sits exactly in between: one spray in the morning carries the whole working day, and the scent opens and develops instead of settling on the skin at once.

So we don't make lighter and pricier versions of the same scent. We make one, in the concentration where that scent works best.

How a perfume is measured

Longevity, projection and sillage

Three things describe every perfume, whatever the price or the name on the bottle. Once you separate them, it is easier to say what you actually want from a scent.

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Longevity

How many hours the scent stays on skin

Measured from the moment you spray to the moment you can no longer smell it up close. It depends on the concentration, but also on your skin: on dry skin every perfume lasts less, so a dab of unscented cream before spraying helps.

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Projection

How far it travels around you

Strongest in the first hour, it tells you how much space the scent takes up. Big projection is great for evenings and colder days, while at the office or in a meeting it usually gets in the way more than it helps.

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Sillage

The trail you leave behind

Pronounced „see-yazh“, it means the trail a scent leaves behind you. It is the reason someone turns around as you pass. A perfume can last a long time and still leave a small trail, and the other way round.

Strong is not the same as good. A perfume with huge projection quickly tires both you and the people around you, while one without any trail stays your own private thing.

That is why every one of our perfume descriptions says how it wears, not only how it smells.

CHOOSE YOUR LIFESYLE

Drama Queen

Inspired by: Scandal, Jean Paul Gaultier

Drama Queen leans into evening more than daytime, at its best from early autumn through winter, when a sweet, honeyed scent has real presence in cooler air. It can still work in warmer months for a night out, but it is not a light, easy summer scent.

Jean Paul Gaultier built Scandal as a fragrance for women rather than for men, and Drama Queen follows that lead: sweet and deep enough to read as distinctly feminine rather than unisex or masculine.

Jean Paul Gaultier sits among the more recognisable luxury houses, and Scandal is one of its loud, high-visibility releases rather than a quiet niche curiosity. Drama Queen keeps that same presence, which is what people want from gourmand fragrances of this kind.

Choose our Inspiration

Jean Paul Gaultier is the French design house behind Scandal, one of its most recognised women's fragrances, built around the same rebellious, over-the-top image the brand is known for. The bottle plays on that idea too, dressed up rather than understated.

Most shoppers just say Scandal rather than the full Jean Paul Gaultier name, and that shorthand is what people type when they go looking for Scandal perfume dupes. Read a review of the original and the syrupy, fruity opening is what gets mentioned first.

Among French perfumes built on a honeyed gourmand idea, Scandal is one of the most duped, and Drama Queen is not a rough clone but our own blend around that same honeyed accord.

Why choose us?

Drama Queen is our alternative to Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal. It is our own blend, made with French fragrance oil and filled by hand in small batches to get as close as we can to that same sweet, resinous character, and it sits with the other gourmand perfumes we make.

We only make it as an eau de parfum, since anything lighter would lose the depth in the base, and the top, middle notes and base follow the same arc as the original. If it does not smell similar to what you expected, send it back within 15 days and we will sort an exchange.