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Collection Classique

Yuzu Fou Parfum d'Empire 2008

6.9 / 10 147 Ratings

A perfume by Parfum d'Empire for women and men, released in 2008. The scent is citrusy-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Citrus

Fresh

Green

Fruity

Woody

Fragrance Notes

Bitter orange Mint

Mint

Kumquat

Bamboo

Orange

White musk Neroli

Neroli

Cedarwood

Verbena absolute Yuzu

Yuzu

Perfumer

Marc-Antoine Corticchiato

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Ratings

Scent

6.9147 Ratings

Longevity

6.9104 Ratings

Sillage

6.497 Ratings

Bottle

7.492 Ratings

Value for money

6.433 Ratings

Submitted by DeGe53, last update on 08/21/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Collection Classique collection.

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What the fragrance is similar to

Eau Pour Homme (1984) Eau de Toilette

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/28/2016

7Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Karenin
40 Reviews

Karenin

3

Yuzu Fou

Out of the three citrus-centred fragrances from Parfum d'Empire (“Azemour les Orangers”, “Iskander” and “Yuzu Fou”), I find “Yuzu Fou” the most puzzling one. Especially its head initially proved a bit of a challenge for me, but to be honest, the more I tested it, the more accustomed I grew to its quirky prelude.

“Yuzu Fou” opens with a sparkling mix of citruses (bitter orange and yuzu) and mint. For some strange reason, when I sampled the perfume for the first time, the presence of the mint note reminded me of the smell of my dentist's surgery. Perhaps it was just a subconscious association as mint often features in various dental care products. Instead of the image of the products, however, it was the image of the surgery which popped up whenever I tested “Yuzu Fou”. Anyway, the citrusy-minty opening soon gives way to another note in the composition, namely lemon verbena. It not only manages to sustain the freshness of the composition, but it also smooths it out.

There can be no doubt about who begot “Yuzu Fou”. All the fragrances in the Parfum d'Empire line have a distinctive olfactory quality that has become Marc-Antoine Corticchiato's signature: the masterful blending of the notes, chypre-like abstraction and an air of edginess. The fabulous “Azemour les Orangers” remains my favourite citrus scent from this house, but “Yuzu Fou” can serve as a darn good alternative.

04/06/2025

9.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Blasius
10 Reviews

Blasius

3

Complètement givré

Yuzu Fou by Parfum d’Empire bursts open with a vibrant, electric freshness. The yuzu takes center stage, a zesty citrus with icy brightness—sharp, tangy, and exhilarating. It's quickly joined by green tea and mint, adding a clean, herbal clarity that feels both invigorating and serene.

This is not a fragrance of richness or opulence, but of radiant purity and sharp elegance. A refined, razor-sharp freshness for those who love crisp, luminous, and almost minimalist compositions. Yuzu Fou celebrates citrus at its most noble—brilliant, faceted, and wildly addictive.

The projection and longevity are intentionally subtle — but that’s expected from a citrus-based fragrance. Its volatile nature doesn’t make it weak; it makes it ethereal. Yuzu Fou is a skin scent, a sheer veil of citrus purity that refreshes without overwhelming.

Often underrated, it deserves far more credit: Yuzu Fou is one of the most precise, radical, and refined citrus scents in niche perfumery. A refreshing oddity, “fou” in its minimalist daring, and brilliant in execution.

06/13/2023

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

FloatingTime
20 Reviews

FloatingTime

1

Extremely realistic yuzu

Opens on a spectacularly projecting, photorealistic yuzu note, on the verge of too sharp. However it remains juicy. The acidity is not an unpleasant green bitter sourness, it is pure, fresh yuzu.

After a while I also notice some mint and lemon verbena. Extremely cooling.

The yuzu projection is awesome during the first hour, and remains in a more subtle form long afterwards.

The realism of the yuzu note in this one (like the realism of the tomato leaf one in Corsica Furiosa) really blows my mind.

07/12/2019

9.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Anarlan
27 Reviews

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Anarlan

Top Review 34

Ikigai in a bottle

It’s briefly like a still damp hemp mat is being rolled out with a flourish in front of you, allowing you to stride across it while observing the stalls filled with green and yellow fruits and herbs as you stroll through the market of fruit and herb vendors in the heart of Tokyo. The countless box-shaped displays of the bamboo stalls form narrow alleys, neatly piled up into cubist backdrops, revealing the hazy outlines of skyscrapers in an endless city at their ends. The streets simmer under the sultry heat of the rainy season, everywhere there seems to be a film of moisture on the surfaces. As soon as you brush against the bare skin of your forearms, you want to dry, cool, and disinfect your hands at the nearest brightly blinking, beeping, and talking vending machine.
You are sure that there are machines for that here too, but unsuccessful in your search, of course, because nothing about the purpose and function of the brightly labeled boxes that seem to stand on every corner would be understandable to you. As if by some biological peculiarity, it seems that the locals are blessed with no moisture clinging to their faces; housewives, businessmen, teenagers in their baby clothes and dyed hair rushing through the narrow alleys all seem to have, as if by appointment, turned off their sweat production.

The brief commotion that the earthy scent of the damp hemp causes you as you enter the market dissipates within seconds, and the bitter, sour, stunning liveliness of the scent of bitter oranges, which seem to be omnipresent here, hits you like a blow. They smell sour, reminiscent of the scent of freshly grated lemon peels, yet more complex, deeper, their aroma recalling grapefruit and limes, without spreading the sulfurous dullness of grapefruit or the penetrating exoticism of limes. It smells cool, a blessing on this damp, hot day.

Right next to it are the stalls of the herb vendors, the bundles standing in vase-like woven bamboo containers or lying neatly arranged in small wooden boxes following a geometry unknown to you. Mint, you crush a few leaves between your fingers: Not chewing gum mint, as expected, which would fit well in this incomprehensible environment, but a herbal, dark, stemmy-woody mint aroma, the plants dried in the warm wind and magically revived. Beneath it, another bundle of a small scent explosion: Aromatic, green, citrusy lemon verbena, with its metallic bitter scent that you can almost taste, a dark, herbal note that delicately underlies the zestiness of the bitter oranges.

You still think you can perceive the earthy scent of the damp hemp mat, which occasionally rises in this exquisite sour-bitter mood, but soon the bitter impressions marry with the shimmering woodiness of cedar and warm, deep, pleasantly dry, and slightly rubbing musk. Something reminds you of the mineral darkness of oak moss, but it’s just an illusion; the heat is playing tricks on you, the bitterness and eccentricity of the scent create this impression. Yet, and this surprises you the most, the scent of your damp skin feels like a cooling, dry, ideally tempered, powdery silk cocoon, everything fits, you have arrived at yourself, and the heat and the city around you can no longer harm you.

...

The Corsican Marc-Antoine Corticchiato, the nose behind Parfum d´Empire, aimed to create an homage to modern Japan with Yuzu Fou, so the marketing saga goes, and his perspective on it is, without me being able to specify or explain it concretely, French, just as the exquisite scents he creates are French. Whether it may be that his fragrances always have a certain awkwardness and eccentricity, with scent components that are often initially hard to get used to, but then find a refined use in the overall composition and exert a strong allure, or that he apparently enjoys drawing on historical scent archetypes or historical figures to give fragrances a story, or because he repeatedly addresses the theme of Chypre (the most beautiful orange Chypre I know comes from him) in an exciting way (which hits the mark for me anyway), his fragrances often have a unique elegance and finesse that I associate with "French." This may be as clichéd a characteristic as it wants to be, Parfum d´Empire was and is one of my personal brand discoveries of the past year, and Yuzu Fou is currently my summer favorite, unfortunately grossly underrated here on Parfumo.

I sincerely hope that the fragrances of the brand will soon be available again; in Germany, they have apparently only been available from stock since the beginning of the year. If anyone knows more, please feel free to share.
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Update July 2019: Apparently, the PdE fragrances will be available in the German market starting September this year.

10/29/2021

Intersport
115 Reviews

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Intersport

Top Review 13

Brix/acid ratio: 1.4-1.7

I need to revise my previously expanded comment on Yuzu Fou from April 2021 once again. On the one hand, I have reached for this fragrance significantly more often since that time than in the years before, and in the course of this, I also came across Ayaka Uehara and Nicolas Baldovini's article Volatile constituents of yuzu (Citrus junos Sieb. ex Tanaka) peel oil: A review. My original suspicion that Yuzu Fou could be a Yuzu without Yuzu has thus been dispelled. My impression of what an exquisite citrus fragrance this is has been reaffirmed.

'Despite the great outdoor settings of Anarlan's and SirLancelot's contributions, and precisely because of the noticeably high humidity of summer in Japan, I escape into the air-conditioned basements of the large department stores in the capital: Takashimaya, Matsuya, Isetan, Mitsukoshi. The "food halls" set up there - pure understatement, it’s more of a mix between a jewelry store and a delicatessen - are the place where I envision Yuzu Fou. In the rows of these endless floors of specialized foods, sellers who patiently explain the differences between various dried squids, miso, or even yuzu products, and the fact that one does not understand a word of Japanese is elegantly ignored, there are always departments for "gift fruits." Here, you find individual melons, wrapped with a gift ribbon, in a box with the precisely fitting ratio, which can often be in the three-digit Euro range. For those seeking even more luxury, go to Senbikiya, the specialist among specialists. I remember those melons, apples, and grapes. If a single Yuzu fruit or just a Shiso leaf were to be in such a gift package, then that would be Yuzu Fou. Selected, presented like high-end items at one of the jewelers around Place Vendôme.

I primarily have a gourmand connection to Yuzu. Twenty years ago, for the first time in Japan, on the island of Kyushu, at a restaurant that prepared everything from chicken, there was Yuzu-Kosho paste served with the chicken soup, which combines this delicate citrus aroma with salt and chilies. A taste memory like the first Shiso leaf. Since those days, I associate Yuzu with a delicate yet piercing freshness, aromatic quality, and high humidity. Yuzu Fou connects here, but it is also a possible blueprint for a construction style that was shifted a few years later with Azemour into a softer, spicier terrain. Especially in the development of the drydown, there are parallels. At the same time, the fragrance starts with a special, indeed exotic, super-clear and fine citrus aroma, with mint that clearly leans towards Shiso, much more complex than Comme des Garçons' unfortunately discontinued Series 1: Leaves - Shiso (2000). Perhaps this whole thing is also a kind of Japonisme that brings this Far Eastern fruit into a minimal Chypre framework and with verbena into a French context. Yuzu Fou oscillates between light and solid, similar to the special structural engineering of Jun Sato & Co., which underlies the works of Junya Ishigami or SANAA.'

* Uehara, A. and Baldovini, N., 2021. Volatile constituents of yuzu (Citrus junos Sieb. ex Tanaka) peel oil: A review. Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 36(2), pp.292-318.

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