Note de Yuzu Heeley 2017

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7.9 / 10 443 Ratings

A popular perfume by Heeley for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is citrusy-fresh. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Citrus

Fresh

Aquatic

Fruity

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Yuzu

Lemon

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Sea salt

Base Notes

Haitian vetiver

White musk

Perfumer

James Heeley

Ratings

Scent

7.9443 Ratings

Longevity

7.0382 Ratings

Sillage

6.5378 Ratings

Bottle

7.5327 Ratings

Value for money

7.0160 Ratings

Submitted by Consens, last update on 12.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

This fragrance has been created by James Heeley for the french music und fashion label Maison Kitsuné.

Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/09/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Basti87
242 Reviews

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Basti87

Top Review 27

Sel Marin vs. Mandarino di Amalfi

Heeley - A great brand of perfumer James Heeley from England, who produces with the brand Heeley in France. Some beautiful creations this brand offers and for niche conditions not crassly overpriced. Regularly they cost 130 euros the EdPs and Extrait de Parfum around 150 euros. Not cheap, but acceptable. I already have one in my collection: Sel Marin. A great authentic aquat. With this Note de Yuzu I have another candidate for purchase, which might end up in my collection. Whether it will happen this year is questionable, but maybe next year as well
This fragrance is an eau de parfum. On the label and in shops you can find Maison Kitsune x Heeley. Seems to be a fashion label from France.
The Heeley flacons are very classic and make a noble impression. Great lid and beautiful glass.

As I already wrote in my headline: This is a fruity-citric fragrance with a concentrated charge of salty aquatic notes. This mix doesn't really give you that twin-scented feeling, but if you like the two fragrances mentioned, you'll probably like this one too. The comparison to Mandarino di Amalfi by Tom Ford is only about the beautiful top note, because from the heart note on the orange blossom starts and from then on has nothing to do with this fragrance.
The start is very strong and somehow also spicy. That settles quickly and there is a great freshness. Like the pyramid already says: Yuzu, tangerine and grapefruit. Fruity, citric-fresh, tart but also juicy. I can recommend Yuzu to everyone, also in other creations. A great fruit from the Far East. The aquatic side dishes remind me a lot of Sel Marin. Salty, algal and authentically aquatic. The aquatic doesn't smell like many shower gel scents, but as if you were at the sea or the ocean and smell a nice fresh breeze. I really like this mix of authentic aquatic and fresh, tangy and juicy citric. Harmonises and stands out from the usual summer styles.
Performance is all right, especially for a summer scent. Sort of like Sel Marin for a few hours with decent sillage. Recommendable. Well suited for summer leisure activities with lots of good mood vibe.

Hardly recommended by me. The rating of over 8 is completely justified here. A great fragrance that stands out and accompanies great on warm days

01/13/2019

8
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 9
Scent

Leimbacher
421 Reviews

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Leimbacher

Top Review 26

In contrast, the sun acts like a light bulb

"Note de Yuzu" begins monothematically, with the most authentic Yuzu note ever poured into a fragrance, then swims away in cold, clear seawater. Another scoop from Heeley. Simple and super strong!

There is not too much to write about it - this first hour of Yuzu you simply have to smell to believe it. This is sun and fruit and pure sparkling. That makes you in a good mood, looks extremely high quality and scratches zero. Afterwards, with the loose sound of the sea, one does not have to worry about algae and salt chords, they remain discreet and pleasant. All in all a full-grown Yuzu hero, who even on the dreariest winter days is able to take his mind off to midsummer, vacation-ready regions. Awesome! Even Atelier Cologne has to dress up warm... or the bikini on and just plan on it.

Flacon: the spray heads are still moderate, the rest fits
Sillage: ok for the summer, too weak for the rest. Enough for midsummer.
Durability: 5 hours sunglasses and juice shutters

Conclusion: you can't hit the Yuzu much better - sunny, juicy, sensual. Simply fabulous!

05/20/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 10
Scent

Goynen67
24 Reviews

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Goynen67

Top Review 24

Make my Day

Can a fragrance turn the day around? Shadows become light. Frustration becomes desire. Convulsion becomes dance. The sun shines on a rainy day. For me, a Felix Felicis of scents. Because I am a sour citric fragrance fan and my body and mind lets the endorphins dance, Note de Yuzu is the king of the perfume shelf. Here the Yuzu fruit is surrounded by ingenious supporters who tickle the potential of the Japanese fruit even more. Grapefruit adds another facet to the bitter note and mandarin orange enhances the fruity note of Yuzu. Salt and algae make the fragrance a bit brittle and tart. But that is not a disadvantage for me. The fragrance becomes more durable and more profound. Musk gives the substructure which does not dominate the fragrance at the end but simply rounds it off. But it always remains the Yuzu fruit of the clock and who likes citric, fresh and tart will love this fragrance. Just a real lucky charm for good and bad days !

07/22/2019

7
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

BlackbirdHH
6 Reviews

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BlackbirdHH

Very helpful Review 22

Heeeeeeeeee... Low in citrus ;-D

Hey man... who left all the squeezed and cut shells on the floor? i've heard of cleaning up and clearing away!!!???? :-{
There you can hurt yourself at verletzeeeeeeeeeaaahhhhhhhh... Oh Oh... i'm slipping... full of slimy and greasy, juicy here... hmpf :-/
...OUUUUUUUAAAAAHHHHHH... Heeeeeeeeee... i slide in the direction of the barrel over there... full of freshly cut yuzus and grapefruits... OH... in between I can still recognize some tangerines... man... this is gonna be more of a flathead... and then Koppüber rrrrrinn into the barrel... i threaten to drown, gasp for air, everywhere the juice and lots of pulp and peels...

...BUT HEEEEEEEYYYY... I like that... always better!!!! ...it's totally long here!!!! :-)

Uhhhhh... why is the barrel moving now??? ...where are you taking me???? Hellooooooooooooo... i'm still stuck here drihiiiiinn... splashy
What was that??? Am I swimming???? Why am I swimming??? It swings so... i think I'm going to get seasick... oh oh... what's spilling into the barrel??? Panic "in" my FassTitanic is spreading... is that water???? Seawater???? I can't really smell it with all the citrus scents... but I think it's seawater... salty and algae, but very discreetly algae... not like brackish water in the harbour, but beautiful, like on the open sea!!!
Fortunately there is not much spilling into the barrel, so there is no danger of drowning... provided that no iceberg gets in my way!!! ;-)
Let's see where I'll be driven in the next 7-8 hours... in here you could also hold out for a while longer... :-)

...but something's missing... what's wrong with me??? hmmmmm... so I have salt... and citrus... grübääääääää

All right... which one of you dweebs forgot the tequila!!!???? ;-D

In this sense a fun cruise and PROOOOOST ;-)

06/12/2018

6
Bottle 4
Sillage 6
Longevity 8.5
Scent

DonJuanDeCat
658 Reviews

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DonJuanDeCat

Top Review 14

Yuzu by the sea stares at beautiful legs!

Aaaah, what a day the other day. It was warm. And it was damp, which makes warm days a little more exhausting somehow. But still I was looking forward to this day, because I met again with a super nice and funny perfume to sniff out scents together. Hm,... you may remember how I often wrote (or rather complained) that I always find so sad that she never shows up with shorts :D
But now it was really so hot that she actually came in a skirt, what a sight that was! :DD

But hey, I wore shorts, too, after all. And also showed more leg. Beautiful, slightly hairy, more and more tanned by the sun, well-shaped muscular male legs! So enjoy these magnificent legs, you gawkers, I often write here how great your women's legs are, so it's only fair if you find my legs also horny... um,... beautiful (even if they shouldn't look nearly as aesthetic on photos as women's legs)! :DD

Anyway, today I tested the note de Yuzu again, after I noticed this fragrance so positively recently and I had tested it for the first time at a meeting with the beautiful-legged Parfuma :D
Especially the top note I find absolutely awesome, especially on such hot days like now (so as usual now, just ignore the few days of rain, because it will soon get very hot again). And although the rest of the scent is a little bit inconspicuous, it reminds us of... how could it be any other way,... of great holiday resorts by the sea!

The fragrance:

In principle, the fragrance begins as you can read in the top note here in the fragrance pyramid. So citric notes that come across extremely fresh and lively. I would say that you can best smell the grapefruit underneath. Since the top note is so tangy, I think it stands out from most citric scents at the beginning. While most good fragrances might make you think how great and fresh the beginning would be, here you are absolutely blown away. Well, I was overwhelmed!!
Unfortunately, the top note doesn't last forever. In the next 15 minutes it goes down more and more and is replaced more and more by maritime notes. The transition from the citric scents to the maritime notes is not seamless, instead it smells slightly smoky in between, before the fragrance gets a slightly fishy old note (I don't mean that in the stinking, negative sense). Gradually this smoke disappears and also the fish smell becomes smaller, whereby it remains however still a little algig. Nevertheless, the fragrance becomes slightly saltier over time and is thus reminiscent of the sea. The citrus notes are still present, but this is more like afterglow from the background.
Sweetish the smell is despite musk rather small to actually not at all.

The Sillage and the shelf life:

The Sillage is wow at short notice as the citric notes radiate well. However, this lasts only five or ten minutes and then the scent quickly weakens so that it can only be perceived at close range.
The shelf life is about six to eight hours, but I find that after about three to four hours it becomes quite weak, almost close to the body, as you often say here.

The bottle:

The bottle is cylindrical and has a large label with yellow edges, which suitably appear quite "fresh". The name of the fragrance can be seen on it, whereby the "o" of the "note" looks like a musical note, since the fragrance was designed for the label Maison Kitsuné, which is also a music label. The lid is black and cylindrical. Something simple, but at least nice to look at, and it also lies well in the hand.

Soo, I really liked the smell. I really flashed the top note because of the great citrusiness, but I also liked the maritime notes, even if they should be a little bit inconspicuous on the skin and could therefore stand a little more "pep". However, if you want to enjoy the great top note, you would theoretically have to spray it every 30-60 minutes, whereby the bottle would unfortunately be empty quite quickly. This problem is similar to the Hermès fragrance with the also very tasty and refreshing top note: Eau de Rhubarbe Écarlate. Because also the Hermès fragrance has a damn great beginning, and unfortunately disappeared in the next moment, while the rest is beautiful, but not so outstandingly exciting (but as I said, beautiful nevertheless).
This means that for me here at Heeley the purchase of a whole bottle is not really worthwhile. Maybe at some point maybe a smaller version like 50 ml, but of course it would be great if there were 30 ml versions of the bottle as well...

Well, the fragrance has another nice advantage: apart from the great refreshment at the beginning, the later, maritime note reminds of the beautiful sea. But not during the swimming, but more so in the evenings, when one walks along the beach along the water, enjoys the cool water at the feet and lets the sky coloured red by the sunset have an effect on one. In addition one smells the algae from the water as well as the slightly salty air. Just beautiful! :)

Oh yes, with the Parfuma it was as always a nice "sniffing day". Of course it was also great that we were sitting at a small café afterwards, on chairs with backrests and seats made of braided materials, reminiscent of the bottles of John Varvatos' Artisan :D
The best part, of course, was leaving the café. When I got up the perfume showed a bit more thighs, which was of course a wonderful sight as always, mu ha ha ha :DD

...
*sigh*
The meeting is over and there they go, the beautiful pairs of legs that glitter sensually and beautifully in the evening sun, until they finally disappear into the depths of the underpass to the multi-storey car park. But it doesn't matter, because I have to go by train. And up to the station it is still a small way, which wants to be walked, where I see on this quite warm day on the way still various, further legs (and of course still more sigh)

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