Y 2017 Eau de Toilette

Version from 2017
Y (2017) (Eau de Toilette) by Yves Saint Laurent
Bottle Design Suzanne Dalton
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6.3 / 10 370 Ratings
Y (2017) (Eau de Toilette) is a perfume by Yves Saint Laurent for men and was released in 2017. The scent is fresh-synthetic. It was last marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Fresh
Synthetic
Sweet
Spicy
Aquatic

Fragrance Notes

BergamotBergamot AldehydesAldehydes AmbergrisAmbergris CedarwoodCedarwood GingerGinger Balsam firBalsam fir Geranium absoluteGeranium absolute SageSage FrankincenseFrankincense

Perfumer

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Scent
6.3370 Ratings
Longevity
6.3319 Ratings
Sillage
6.2318 Ratings
Bottle
7.2335 Ratings
Value for money
6.5136 Ratings
Submitted by OPomone, last update on 28.03.2024.
Interesting Facts
The faces of the advertising campaign are rapper Loyle Carner, sculptor David Alexander Flinn and artificial intelligence researcher Alexandre Robicquet.

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8 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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7
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2.5
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Mantus

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Mantus
Mantus
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Eau de Intentional Bodily Harm
First of all, you can....forget that again very quickly - I'm not at home, but virtually in the foyer of Loréal! - And there I do' first so richtich Rabatz!
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"Schön juten tach, ick hab da ma 'ne janz bescheidene Frage, so actually several; Wat hat sich ihr Computer eijentlich dabei jedacht, solch einen Duftmüll namens Y zu kreieren, wo 'Se sich nicht' ma' die Mühe jemacht haben, didd ooch nur nur annährend zu personalisieren"?

- "We had to create a fragrance quickly or we'd lose the buyers!"

"Oh, and that's why you guys rammed in the Opium pour Homme Eau de Parfum; just as an example, to introduce this synthetic, non-recycleable fragrance to buyers, you're not bloody serious, are you? -"Yes, I am!"

"Hear, hear! Then we will read the Erwin Schlottermann times the riot act!" - Because the fragrance gets this one point as a rating, because it smells like "something" and exactly because of nothing else!"

(Whether the responsible person is really called Erwin Schlottermann I do not know, because no Parfumeursangabe is recorded and me with this fragrance also not at all surprised).

As first I can with me personally after spraying a fine sunburn-like rash, including the heat pimples determine, but within 5 minutes disappears completely and take a nasty pungent citrusy herbaceous smell wahrnmehme, which I perceive as completely overdosed 'bergamot', but this does not seem overdosed at all, but its accompanying substances and here are Cascalone to name, which should convey a fresh, lively sea breeze-like fragrance and provide a full scratchy unsympathetic Erföffnung.

At the same time, the 'aldehydes', which WC duck lemon and candied orange peel syrup hide in themselves, give the fragrance an incredible radiance and thus make it seem even more distinctly unround and even more pungent and reveals a slight plastic - shaving cream note and seems to arise in interaction with the 'balsam fir'.

A little later joins this shaving foam note also the smell of freshly washed, bright powdery, slightly flowery laundry, although I must say that if I had to keep these two notes apart, the "fresh laundry" is quite successful, but this is unfortunately eaten by the synthetic - shaving foam downright and also overlaid and this thus too much suppressed and I perceive here something 'jasmine', instead of rose geranium - Absolue.
In the last 3 hours reconciles me but actually something the fragrance.

Fine bright resinous incense threads unite with a light woody nuances and the interplay with the 'Virginia cedar' and the 'incense' is to thank and now also finally this "abnormal" synthetics has withdrawn so that one could call this almost wearable.

What remains is a fine, balsamic ambrosia smell and because I'm not an asshole, I raise the score of the fragrance to 2.5!

Sage and ginger, unfortunately, I could not perceive, however, I can imagine very well that these components were used to "complete the fragrance disaster".

Incidentally, this is the first fragrance that I do not weiterrreichen, but have already disposed of in the trash; and I'm really one of the last to throw something away.

Overall, the fragrance lasts 7.5 hours on my skin.

The sillage is designed from the beginning 3.5 hours to a very clear whole perceptible whole arm's length, before it reduces in quiet steps until the fragrance fades.
12 Comments
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Chevalier

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Chevalier
Chevalier
Very helpful Review 10  
It's not too little time we have, it's too much time we don't use. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What is wrong with the brand Yves Saint Laurent??
Since the la nuit and the la nuit frozen, nothing felt right anymore.

The house Loréal has the most brands which you can market. Some very aggressive like Armani, others discreet like Viktor&Rolf, Ralph Lauren or Lancome.
Then there are also the inexpensive fast movers like diesel.

Yves Saint Laurent almost doesn't happen anymore.
The last nuit flankers were finally all bad rather than right. The nuit trend has been used here for too long, when the cow was already dead.
They were revived and revived until the last employee with the defibrillator said no.
A wise decision to breathe life into a new series.

But not like that!!

What kind of balsamic mixture is that?
It doesn't smell male, dominant or new at all. It only seems artificial, sweet and indecisive.
This rose absolute and sage is quite weak, inappropriate and not pleasant.
Bringing this in as a new Flanker series is pretty brazen.
Here I would have expected a little less marketing, but more quality, Mesdames et Messieurs in Paris!

Sometimes I even hear very quietly how the founding father Yves Saint-Laurent turns around in his grave.

You can only miss such an opportunity if you don't keep an overview of all brands everywhere and consistently.
This Y is maximum a diesel mixture, everything else is for the price an impertinence.

Here Loréal must definitely ask himself why they didn't bring the mixture of the new perfume from the beginning.
Were you too greedy? Were you too fast? Were you too imprecise? Probably a mixture of all that.
There is a different way to consistently work the market.
When I compare Dior, which has a smaller cadence in the launches of fragrances, with regular top ten fragrances, the ladies and gentlemen of Loréal unfortunately do too much wrong with the venerable master.
One recalls the ingenious compositions like M7, la rive gauche or the over father of success, Kouros.
After that the ingenious la nuit de l`homme, which also hit like a bomb.
That was a few years ago.
And now this Y a master of disappointment.

Therefore, the Loréal crew for Yves Saint Laurent should not talk about the time they do not have, but use the time they can use effectively, freely after Seneca....
We all want to prevent such disappointment from happening again.
3 Comments
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10
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9
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Mon316

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Mon316
Mon316
7  
First perfume
About 1 year ago I first came into contact with perfume. It was at the airport. I ran through the perfume department without a clue which one might be good and sniffed everywhere. This is the only one I found really excellent. I like it very much and I don't understand the bad reviews. The durability is hammer and the Sillage is almost too strong. With 2 sprayers on the other side of the room it was asked who was wearing perfume here. All in all, a, in my opinion, successful perfume
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5
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4.5
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Benlives

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Benlives
Benlives
Helpful Review 9  
Popcorn cinema without screen
...and no popcorn. The encounter with Yves Saints Laurent's "Parfum" Y is about as "exciting" as the one in the "Parfum". One expects tension, emotions, complexity, a charming course and the like in a fragrance. Y does not even meet the minimum requirements for a men's fragrance. A scent at all. He's monotonous, he's meaningless, he's boring. Yawning boring. His "scent" pyramid is a bad joke in view of the synthetic umbrella that reveals itself here. At least he'll be gone in a hurry. In the year 2017 YSL jumps on the fruity squeaky cheap plastic train, which still doesn't seem to have left the perfume world (and still seems to be flushing a few Euros into the till).

"Everything starts with a (wh) y" is the word in the commercials, so flowery. Unfortunately, the scent leaves me with the question of "why". Lose face as a label because of a few cheaply earned euros? Do you really want to degrade to the 0815 manufacturer like so many other labels and give up your own handwriting, your character? Those soulless mainstream corpses really piss me off by now. I expect more authentic entries in the database at Parfumo in the future, in the case of Y about:

Y is a nasal anaesthetic by Yves Saint Laurent from 2017 for men and women. The smell is cheap synthetic. Shelf life and Sillage are below average. Unfortunately it is still produced.

That would be something, wouldn't it ;-) ?

At least I like the song from the commercial.
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Sebastian80

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Sebastian80
Sebastian80
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"Y "l I like you anyway!
Current rating: 5.7
I admit it, I knew that many speakers said that the EDP should be much better
In order to approach the series, however, I have come to a residual quantity Y EDT at the best price.

I didn't really expect much, but at that price a disappointment wouldn't have been too bad either...
I can still remember the first impression: "a bit feminine, but it smells really good!"
Perhaps one must say that Y is not my first fragrance from YSL. Next to L'Homme, L'Homme Ultime and La Nuit, this is my fourth and newest approach, none of the brothers is masculine My test starts at the beginning of spring and here YSL Y fits perfectly for me. The creamy sweetness has an invigorating and cuddly effect in the freshness of the morning, while the fragrance is light enough in temperatures up to almost 18 degrees so that it is not overwhelming. It is precisely this charming presence to many imaginable situations that generally seems to be a great strength of the house of Yves Saint Laurent.
But back to Y. Single notes are hard for me to make out. The sage is the one I am most likely to discover here. I find the composition to be complex, but integrated in a harmonious interplay. Nothing steps out of line or plays itself into the foreground. Qualitatively, I find Y to be high quality. Even if none of the notes are natural, I never have the feeling to wear windscreen cleaners at any time To give me a vague idea of the basic character, it helps me to think in colours. In this context Y in my perception is a pastel, very airy violet blue with white streaks in it.
Perfume usually sticks to me like glue, Y is a small outlier downwards here, but is perceptible long enough to satisfy me. 5 hours or so I perceive the EDT on me.
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HermeshHermesh 7 years ago
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7
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7
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5.5
Scent
Uninspired fresh-sweetish scent without recognition factor. Suitable for a boring office day.
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KingPinKingPin 3 years ago
3.5
Scent
Ultra boring Big Brand scent. Nothing distinguishing it from any other supermarket scent. Extremely uninspired.
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HugoMontezHugoMontez 9 months ago
8
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8
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7
Scent
A fresh and clean fragrance. a white tshirt in a summer day. Ginger, violets and sage envolved in an ambergris base. Nice dumb reach.
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ElysiumElysium 2 years ago
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5
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6
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8
Scent
As a fresh, aromatic, semi-aquatic fragrance with woody and powdery notes, I would classify it as a modern fougère. Enjoyable.
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Jazzy76Jazzy76 5 years ago
7
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7
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7
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8.5
Scent
Inspired to the most symbolic letter, it's a warm and aromatic scent with a particular note of "old lipsticks". Good for Her too!
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