Y Eau de Parfum by Yves Saint Laurent bottle
Yves Saint Laurent

Y Eau de Parfum

4.4/5 · 23,784 votes Masculine 2018
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Fragrance notes

Top notes
Heart notes
Base notes

Character

Longevity3.7/5
Sillage3.1/5
Day97
Night79
Spring100
Summer97
Fall84
Winter55
Our take

Y Eau de Parfum does not try especially hard to be original, and that restraint is exactly its strength. Apple, ginger and bergamot open crisp, sage and juniper berries adding an herbal edge through the heart that cuts the fruit with something green. Longevity comes in long-lasting, and the sillage is a modest bubble, present without insisting on itself too loudly.

Amberwood, tonka bean and vetiver leave the base warm and woody, with olibanum adding a faint incense-like note underneath everything else in the blend. Geranium sits quietly in the heart, rarely noticed but doing real work to hold the structure together. It works across most of the year, spring especially, and suits a desk or a dinner table equally well.

The fresh spicy opening and the woody amber base rarely fight for attention, one simply handing off to the other as the composition develops. Fruity apple gives the top note a crisp, everyday quality that keeps the whole thing approachable. Nothing here is trying to surprise anyone, and the fragrance is better for it, a dependable shape worn without much thought behind it.

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