Pour Homme Yves Saint Laurent 1971 Eau de Toilette

My mother noticed I was enjoying fragrance, so she took me too the mall and introduced me to YSL Pour Homme. It was a hot sunny summer day and this fit perfectly. I had the later version produced in the early 80s, about the time Kouros was launched. I was unaware it was deeper and richer in the 1970s.

I will include all 3 bottles I had in my life. My first one was in with a red cap and was splash. I used to love the refreshing lemon burst and really felt that it worked to cool me down in the heat. There was something about the YSL logo and its celebrity character. This was circa 1981.

In 2003 I found a big spray bottle that most of the notes in tact with the vetiver turned way up. It was still very recognizable yet I detected little oakmoss and sandalwood.

This fall, I chanced upon a vintage dark amber clear bottle with a red collar, and a black cap. This had to be the long forgotten original formula. I won it for under $20 with shipping. I uncapped it and discovered it was a totally different beast, beyond anything I had ever encountered before. This was very much a citrus chypre, however the darkest one I have ever smelled. Its juce is thick and resinous on my skin. The composition is so tightly blended that you cannot pick out a single note beyond the citrus. It lasts a good 18 hours. Its sexy, refined and complex. I would have never referred to the other YSLPH with that decription. This is truely on the top shelp of my collection.

This scent brings back wonderful memories from my childhood, as it was the first scent that really stood out from the rest in attracting my attention. I remember walking around my local drug store (before the big chains even existed) and smelling this fabulous herbal lemon scent in the fragrance section. I had never worn fragrances before, and never thought much of the idea in general, but boy did that scent smell good... I *had* to find out what it was I was smelling... Of course, it was YSL pour Homme.

I did not buy a bottle that day as my allowance was never enough to afford it, but here we are 25 years later and I finally, out of nostalgia, picked up a vintage bottle of YSL pour Homme to see if the love still exists all these years later... I now can safely say after trying the scent on my skin for the first time ever, that it indeed does!

So what does it smell like? I get major lemon in the opening and heart notes, mixed with herbs like basil, thyme, oregano and maybe even a hint of nutmeg spice. As the scent progresses, vetiver joins the herbal spiced lemon party, creating a mildly dirty sour lemon combo. In short, it smells incredible. The scent projects quite well, but unlike a lot of other powerhouses from its time, it is not an absolute beast, making YSL pour Homme quite wearable when sprayed in moderation. Longevity is also well above average.

Still relevant even after all these years, I believe YSL pour Homme is an outright classic herbal lemon powerhouse scent that deserves a lot more attention than it gets and should be in every man's collection. 4 stars out of 5.

Fabulous Fragrance ! The first Legendary masculine Perfume by Master Perfumer Raymond Chaillan and YSL. In my opinion, This is a MASTERPIECE alongside Eau Sauvage and Chanel Pour Monsieur.
Citrusy, Crisp, Clean, Chypre, Woody, Complex and Nostalgic. Unfortunately YSL Pour Homme EDT Original Vintage Bottle is Discontinued, Nowadays It is hard to find and very Rare with Expensive price ! This review is based on the Vintage Bottle. It opens up with a bit bitter fresh citrusy, green herbal and floral notes in the background then dry down is green musky woody.It doesn't smell old or outdated, I really enjoy it from the opening to the dry down and I'm so happy that I have it in my collection and I love it. Longevity is very good. If you like Timeless Classic Style Scent, You will like this one and You can't go wrong with YSL Pour Homme.
Two Thumbs Up.
Bravo Monsieur Raymond Chaillan!
Rating : 9 /10

Delicious lemon and lavender hits you like a summer sunrise. You are awakened, you are ready to take on the world, and as you do, the muscles move, the sweat hits your brow, and the fuel of passion is detected. YSL Pour Homme has a plot twist: the dry herbs, the musky animalism, a phantom civet reveals themselves no sooner than the top notes report their fanfare. It it were a sound it would be a cornet.

Nostalgia with subtle shades of eroticism are here for me on a personal level, but most noteworthy is that Pour Homme has such charm; if a fragrance could be charismatic, this one would have it spades. It's bold without being brash, has dimension that belies its apparent simplicity, and just caresses the wearer in masculine, genteel elegance.

A true masterpiece that has sadly been laid to rest. I will treasure each spray with relish.

My access to YSL was via Jazz, or more so through Paris and Opium in the bathrooms of relatives. I paid little attention to YSL Pour Homme for a long time, too old, too unfashionable. The detour to access was somewhat offbeat. Through Comme des Garçons' Soda (2004), I found pleasure in the artificial-citrus, on the edge of functional perfumery as it appears in cleaning products, among others. Soda was a successful parody of that. At some point, the entire Series 6 Synthetic was discontinued, and the search for overripe citrus notes began: Although common in dish and scrub products, overbred citrus was hard to find in fine fragrances for years, if at all.

Ultimately, I perceived Pour Homme through print advertising in the 80s and 90s, nothing extraordinary at the time; on the contrary: there was hardly any expense spared in advertising photography and commercials, but this subject was different, subtle, smuggled into another context, like hidden additional frames in a film or backward messages in music: No full-page ad, that was still reserved for Paris or Jazz, just a small black-and-white photo, which was only depicted in connection with 'general' reports about Yves Saint Laurent: YSL at the Opera Garnier, YSL with a dog, YSL in Morocco, YSL with Deneuve, and then YSL - without: a naked YSL from the early 70s, merely wearing glasses and somewhere in the corner - barely recognizable due to its small format - clues that it might possibly be a perfume advertisement. A photo that was gradually replaced by less significant ones: YSL in a suit, group photo 'Flacon and the Financial Times 1987' all the way to another 80s cliché: a young businessman cashing in a bonus. Quelle Tristesse!

Pour Homme seemed at first glance like a perfect fit for the functional citrus replacement. Yatagan's formulation of the 'Powerhouse Lemon' hits the mark. It quickly became clear that I had bought a cat in a sack, or better yet, a dirty Trojan horse. Pour Homme, which opens with a fabulous, multi-faceted citrus note, undergoes a transition that - through a potently staged bouquet garni, of a magnitude that would have seasoned even the most extravagant dinners of the entire YSL Studio crew at La Coupole more than adequately - quickly strays from any cleaning aesthetic. A precursor to that physicality that Kouros would elevate to its peak ten years later. The combination of an effectively brutal opening and clear embodiment makes YSL Pour Homme simply enjoyable. Surely it was a child of its time, connections to other 'great perfumes' that perhaps served as commercial anchor points are evident. Chanel Pour Monsieur, Monsieur de Givenchy, only seemed to sharpen and exaggerate the identical components of Pour Homme. More citrusy, spicy-bouquet-like, wicked. A dirty lemon. Poison and antidote in one, Scene of Crime and crime scene cleaner.

Under La Collection, a credible if somewhat more restrictive reissue was attempted - Profumo's review of this extensively addresses the 'animalistic' aspects that characterize Pour Homme and presumably stem from the lush bouquet garni. Unfortunately, this has also been discontinued, at least in the older versions, there was also talk of musk, perhaps another modulation. In the drydown, Club Majestic reminded me too much of the same in Pour Homme.