Manifesto Yves Saint Laurent 2012

Bottle Design:
Alnoor Mitha de Bharat

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A perfume by Yves Saint Laurent for women, released in 2012. The scent is sweet-floral. It is being marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Sweet

Floral

Fruity

Powdery

Gourmand

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Blackcurrant

Bergamot

Green notes

Heart Notes

Jasmine

Lily of the valley

Base Notes

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

Cedar

Sandalwood

Perfumers

Anne Flipo, Loc Dong

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Ratings

Scent

7.4499 Ratings

Longevity

7.4401 Ratings

Sillage

6.9401 Ratings

Bottle

7.8416 Ratings

Value for money

7.2156 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 05/21/2025.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is American actress Jessica Chastain.

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Reviews

15 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/30/2013

valandria
30 Reviews

valandria

Top Review 13

Goes from Green to Scream in 2 minutes...

I bought a sample of this after looking at the notes and thinking it sounded interesting. The opening is a rather vibrant and sharp green - I like this, I think to myself. Then after maybe 2 minutes it's all about very loud vanilla and tonka. Reminds me of a very sweet vanilla flavored marshmallow. Soon enough after that, the powder kicks in and now it's a powdery vanilla flavored marshmallow scent. This smell makes me feel a little sick actually. Naturally, it has tremendous lasting power and is hard to wash off. What is YSL thinking here? Definitely not full bottle worthy for me.... heck I won't even finish these samples!

06/06/2017

9
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Bcars10
90 Reviews

Bcars10

Helpful Review 4

Great scent, deplorable name

After buying this, I opened it up on the spot and sprayed it twice on myself. And holy cow! It smelled like my dad’s tomato plants! Green, green, green! I was alarmed.

About 5-10 minutes later, I kept smelling this wonderful citrusy-powdery scent. I thought it was coming from someone shopping nearby, but nope. It was me! That biting green note had completely disappeared and had become so beautiful. There’s really no way to say it other than that I love it, despite its hideous and unfortunate name, which reminds me of communism.

The green note is very sharp initially, and for that reason I was afraid to wear it to church the day after I bought it. Today I sprayed myself 4 times (back of neck/hair, front of neck, and once on each arm) to see what would happen. The green note goes away within five minutes. As it recedes, that bergamot comes forward in all of its citrusy glory, but it is tempered a bit by a sweet hit of something…maybe the currant bud? No idea because I don’t know what currant bud smells like. Slowly, the florals arrive, but they’re subtly sweet and gentle. The vanilla and tonka bean really hit hard, but not in a bad way. I would say the tonka is a bit stronger than the vanilla, but together they form a powdery and somewhat sweet powerhouse of olfactory delightfulness. I cannot pick out the sandalwood or the cedar notes on me at all.

This perfume reminds me of Ellen Tracy Bronze, which is also “citrusy-creamy-powdery.” There’s a strong Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo vibe here, too.

Not bad for a $12 clearance blind buy at Kohl's.

05/05/2015

7.5
Bottle 5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 8
Scent

Daisyvision
90 Reviews

Daisyvision

Helpful Review 3

Delicate, Sweet, 'Safe'.

Manifesto is a lovely and radiant scent. Black currant gives it a sharp and juicy quality, which seems to cool what would otherwise be a warm & woody vanilla/tonka combo. The green notes and jasmine provide a light freshness, and there's an almost glimmering or sparkling element (which is completely appropriate given the bottle design). The drydown transitions from juicy to powdery. After a while it matures quite a bit, and lends a 'come-hither' quality (but in a classy way).

01/02/2013

NSku
5 Reviews

NSku

Helpful Review 3

Powdery

I smelled this perfume at a Zurich department store. The sales clerk kept saying: yes its sexy, a sexy fragrance. "Sexy" was not the word I would have used to describe it.

I didn't care for the flat face-powder smell. But I'd be interested to hear what others think.

04/04/2020

Mozart1756
68 Reviews

Mozart1756

Helpful Review 2

Vanilla, tonka bean, bergamot. The cream smell.

These 3 musketeers are the most coming to your nose. This scent reminds me luxury face creams. Maybe ysl skin care if they produce a face cream, they can give Manifesto's smell to it. Bergamot starting mini fresh. Then the tonka bean and vanilla are dominating the scent. Mysterious, creamy because its smells like cream :) hhh, sweet but not overly sugary. Especially night outs or dinners good choice. I bet in past its longevity better, today its fine but not the beast mode. You are waiting more longevity, I confess. Age= bit mature but timeless. I confess again I think its name is shadowing by Black Opium edp. I prefer Manifesto 4 times over than Black Opium edp.

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