Hommage à Paul Klee - Lights and Shadows by YS Uzac

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Hommage à Paul Klee - Lights and Shadows YS Uzac 2017

7.7 / 10 60 Ratings

A popular limited perfume by YS Uzac for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is fruity-smoky. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Fruity

Smoky

Woody

Green

Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Rhubarb

Charred wood Date

Date

Ink

Paper

Plum

Perfumer

Vincent Micotti

Ratings

Scent

7.760 Ratings

Longevity

8.150 Ratings

Sillage

7.651 Ratings

Bottle

8.655 Ratings

Value for money

6.021 Ratings

Submitted by Maggy4u · last update on 10/01/2025.

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4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/01/2025

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Smellemental
75 Reviews

Smellemental

An artist’s dream…

Oh gosh, this one’s gorgeous. Ink, stone fruit, paper and old singed woods. Incense, veneer and felt. Hints of powder. I feel the rhubarb, despite providing an enjoyable green tang, is just a bit too strong and sharp for my palate. Perhaps I’m sensitive to it. Regardless the whole composition is very smooth—incredibly natural, sophisticated, contemplative, melancholic. An amazing tribute to artistry, and as might be expected it could be considered most ‘wearable’ by artists or those looking to hone their artistic sides, but I put ‘wearable’ in quotes as this is much less a scent to be worn and much more of one to meditate upon, with, or to even, ‘become.’

Progression is slight. Sillage moderate, longevity high.

Bravo, good sir!

12/01/2024

5Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Lauser93
1199 Reviews

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Lauser93

Helpful Review 2

An Absolutely Eccentric Fragrance Experience

After several attempts with YS Uzac, one realizes: The fragrances are everything - just not ordinary. Unfortunately, I struggled again with Hommage à Paul Klee - Lights and Shadows and wonder: Do I really want to smell like this? Unfortunately, my answer is clear: No! However, the performance is an absolute knockout. The longevity on my skin exceeds more than a day with a very loud sillage.

The scent is not particularly complex, so I will skip the top, heart, and base notes here. The signature includes sweet-fruity, smoky, green-spicy, as well as resinous-woody nuances. I detect plantain syrup, fresh rhubarb, dates, dried plums, sultanas, ink, charcoal, cedarwood, and burnt paper.

Anyone who enjoys truly outlandish fragrances should definitely test "Hommage à Paul Klee - Lights and Shadows | YS Uzac." Unfortunately, I'm out, but I still want to sincerely thank Nick for the sample.

01/31/2018

8.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Taamii
25 Reviews

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Helpful Review 11

shocking enthusiasm

Thanks to the sharing from Maggy4u, I had the pleasure of trying this fragrance. Thank you again for your effort!

The scent hits you almost unconscious at first. I was not prepared for so much unripe rhubarb. My favorite reaction was immediately "It smells like vomit!", 5 seconds later "... but good vomit"
That's one way to put it :)
The fragrance really starts off extremely "green" and "bitter". Slowly, a subtle fruity note comes in - probably the plum, but absolutely not sweet! Then a metallic note joins in. The ink! Very contrary, but it has something. If you hold on and give the perfume its time, you will later be rewarded with a beautiful smoky wood note. The slight sweetness from the date blends with the smoke and wood, pushing the rhubarb a bit into the background.

This perfume is something special. Definitely not a scent for every day or the office. A vibrant work of art that needs time to be understood.

I can really recommend a test to anyone who wants to try something "new", but a purchase only for true hardcore rhubarb fans.

01/31/2018

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Maggy4u
369 Reviews

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Top Review 19

Lights and Shadows

Vincent Micotti, the nose behind Ys Uzac, himself gave two tours on the occasion of a Paul Klee exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel. Here, works by Klee were displayed under the theme "The Abstract Dimension," which Vincent addressed in his tour titled "Paul Klee, Fragrant Memories." In this context, the fragrance was also created and presented as a tribute to Paul Klee. Klee himself was not only a celebrated member of the Blue Rider movement, a pioneer of abstract art, and a close friend of Kandinsky during his lifetime. He kept a diary, and many of his thoughts on color and abstraction have been preserved for posterity in his words. He was deeply engaged in making visible the mysterious in-between realm between the real appearance and the essence of things. This is the abstract dimension.

Looking at the picture book for the exhibition, one finds two names again. On the one hand, Vincent Micotti also contributed here, but Teodor Currentzis, star conductor and olfactory partner and godfather for the fragrances Air16 and Theros, also appears as one of the authors. Thus, the two artists share another passion with Klee. If one looks into Klee's biography, it quickly becomes apparent that, as a child of a musical family, he also developed some skill with the violin. With this, among other things, he was even able to support himself for a time. Vincent Micotti, a former professional musician, and Currentzis surely found in the genius of Klee more than just graphic connections.

Klee himself once wrote in his diary: "Color does not captivate us through illumination but through light. Light and shadow is the graphic world. More abundant in phenomena than a sunny day is the diffuse brightness of slight veiling."

The bottle and its packaging are small masterpieces in themselves. The heavy glass is adorned with a symbol of a tree. A diary entry from an afternoon during his trip to Tunisia in 1914 can be found on a folded note inside the box. It speaks of colors, scents, impressions, and fragrant wood that is burned. During this time, Klee found his way to his vibrant colors.

Another entry on the back of the packaging quotes Klee from 1915. Here, Klee presents himself as multidimensional and refers to the ruins of a war within himself that he left behind and has now learned to deal with "abstractly with his own memories." Thus, it is again the abstract dimensions in perception that we must grasp to better categorize this fragrance. (I have added the corresponding lines as a photo to the perfume.)

Right from the start, I consider this perfume to be an olfactory image created by Vincent Micotti. Initially characterized by a daring dissonance of the accords. One is inclined to assign a level of shadow or light to certain scent tones, yet in every moment, it is actually the abstract dimension "behind" that designs both worlds or precisely the aforementioned in-between world between the real and the experienced.

The rhubarb, green and unripe, rough yet alive, greets us right at the beginning and is somewhat of an acquired taste. One immediately wonders, "aha, interesting," but do I want to smell like this? So let us detach ourselves from a designed scent that merely aims to please, and instead, let us engage in an experience here. We already know the real world. After a while, the harsh, bitter-green quality of the rhubarb is complemented by an unripe, very subtle sweetness. I suspect this is the plum from the accord list. But one could also simply write, unripe stone fruit.

As we progress, the initially dissonant impression indeed harmonizes into a scent image that finds another dimension through paper and metallic ink, presumably describing Klee's meticulous diary passion. Here too, Klee did not write lyrically but rather very abstractly about his experiences and their effects on him.

In the drydown, the partly contrasting impressions "calm down" further and let us fall into an almost oriental bed of warm woody incense notes and minimal fruity sweetness. Here, the theme of Klee's formative trip to Tunisia is taken up and explains the date in the accord ensemble.

The tribute to Paul Klee is not a simple one, but it is a very successful perfume. It represents a theme in the life of an artistic being whose legacy has not only changed our world through over 10,000 works but also makes another dimension experienceable with this fragrance. The abstract dimension.

Statements

28 short views on the fragrance

DrB1414

12 months ago

9.5Scent

1

Another heartbreaking composition from this house.
An artist's studio, oil drying on the canvas, a piano, dried fruits, and incense burning.

JonasP1

4 years ago

7Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

48

49

Ink seeps sour
Over endless texts
Cracked paper
Thrown into glowing coals
Occult figures
On rhubarb
Colorful images in the head

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Axiomatic

3 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

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42

Dried fruit from the Tunisia trip.
Rhubarb intensity of the Dessau master villa.
Smoky break with Bauhaus.
"Primeval world couple" experienced as a scent.

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