Lys 41 Le Labo 2013 Eau de Parfum

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7.7 / 10 150 Ratings

A popular perfume by Le Labo for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is floral-sweet. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Creamy

Powdery

Woody

Fragrance Notes

Jasmine

Tiaré

Tuberose absolute Lily

Lily

Solar note

Bourbon vanilla Musk

Musk

Woods

Perfumer

Daphné Bugey

Ratings

Scent

7.7150 Ratings

Longevity

7.7116 Ratings

Sillage

7.2120 Ratings

Bottle

6.9111 Ratings

Value for money

5.652 Ratings

Submitted by MiaTrost, last update on 07/30/2025.

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Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/31/2014

10
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

ScentFan
334 Reviews

ScentFan

6

Pushing Up the Lily

What I like about Le Labo is their scent compositions are not only memorable, the perfumes project, and have no-nonsense longevity and sillage. It's as if someone said, "We're going to do this right." From their website: "Imagine a brand where two specialists in fine perfume who love swimming against the current and, inspired by Mike Mills' declaration about 'fighting the rising tide of conformity,' decide to bring together, in New York, some of the very best 'noses' on the planet. Their mission: to create exceptional fragrances, with no eye on cost and one goal - to create a sensory 'shock' as soon as you open the bottle. They succeeded. I don't even like the smell of lilies, the primary note here, but I love Lys 41 and its imaginative use of supporting florals including the exotic Tiaré, the gardenia often seen in the hair of Tahitian beauties in paintings by Paul Gaugain. Lys 41 did indeed shock me with its sunny beauty. This is no lily meant for a coffin. Instead, it raises Lily to a height that could conceivably revive, if not a person, a dead nose, anyway. Not the least dark or cloying, nor overly sweet, Lys 41 is femininity in a bottle on a bright spring day.

11/09/2016

Myhorses
33 Reviews

Myhorses

4

Lys 41

First of all this a Le Labo fragrance so do not expect a lily soliflore, you are getting instead a large white flowers bouquet featuring beside lily a great tuberose, a slightly indolic jasmine and tiare on a bed of buttery vanilla with a coconut echo.

Lys 41 starts big with the white flowers, tuberose and lily as prima donnas with a shy touch of green and plenty of creamy vanilla. As the fragrance further evolves the green note becomes stronger while the vanilla creaminess is more prominent, a coconut note starts to grab attention probably due to tiare flowers that have more emphasis in the middle notes of Lys 41. This coconut note is light compared with Datura noir or Vittoria Apuana and could be a good choice for somebody who likes floral fragrances but does not enjoy so much coconut in perfume .In the basenotes a nicely done woody-musky accord is laced with a lot of vanilla that succeeds not to be gourmand.

11/11/2024

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Nanaafromgha
145 Reviews

Nanaafromgha

4

Lost Lily

If it’s one thing about Le Labo, it’s that they will make a stunning floral scent. Lys 41 is no different. It’s a gorgeous, sweet floral fragrance with the gentlest touch of vanilla. However and given this name, you’d expect this to be a Lily-forward fragrance.

Lys 41 is white floral *bouquet* rather than a natural lily fragrance. I get more jasmine and tuberose than I get any of the other florals, especially that lily note. She, unfortunately, gets lost in all the sauce. It’s very heady, slightly indolic, and sort of relentless in the opening, but dries down to a beautiful, soft and creamy fragrance that’s elegant and bright. Goes best with a flow-y white dress, lots of a sun, and a nice breeze on a warm spring / summer day. Not a screamer or shouter, but definitely has a good sillage and lasts a decent amount of time.

Very pretty, but if you’re looking for a true lys, I’d advise you look elsewhere.

02/22/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

2

Sing me to sleep

You know what this smells like? Sleep. And I mean that both because it’s a terrifically boring scent, but also because it is so yawn-inducing it becomes fascinatingly soporific (that cozy, intimate, and obviously terribly pleasant feeling you have just before falling asleep). So in the end, not a completely negative kind of boring. Almost a creative take on it. Anyway, Lys 41 is basically a really simple, graceful and quite plain white floral scent with a woody-amber base and sweet-dusty nuances, with also something that reminded me of suede, but I guess it must be the musky note. Don’t think of anything too powdery or sweet, it’s rather a delicate haiku played on creamy-woody notes, as much pleasant as a bit dull and plastic. The evolution if basically non-existent, but the persistence is good and the projection is unexpectedly quite sharp. On one side, you can smell here the peculiar way of Le Labo of playing around common accords and notes with a sort of “modern” and kind of suspended, ethereal, aseptic treatment: but also, I think they sort of “crossed the line” a bit with this, meaning that the mild, “lunar lab” discreetness becomes just more plain dullness here. Or well, just this close to it. A synthetic candy worthy a try, but nothing more in my opinion. I completely agree with deadidol’s take on Basenotes about this.

6/10

12/21/2024

4
Pricing 6
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 8
Scent

Koicha
25 Reviews

Koicha

1

for white floral fans

This cloying, sweet white floral scent stood out to me out of the samples I brought from Le Labo. I mostly smell jasmine when I spritz it on. Unfortunately for me, all of the Le Labo scents I have sampled do not last long on my skin. Still, I enjoy this scent as a nice, spring flora. Like most reviewers have commented, this is a sweet after-scent in addition to the jasmine that makes it memorable.

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