Muse Yves Saint Laurent 2025

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A new perfume by Yves Saint Laurent for women and men, released in 2025. The scent is powdery-sweet. It is being marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Powdery

Sweet

Floral

Spicy

Smoky

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Moroccan lavender

Clary sage

Frankincense

Heart Notes

Bourbon vanilla absolute

Orris concrete

Ambrette seed absolute

Base Notes

Ink

Amberwood

Perfumer

Marie Salamagne

Ratings

Scent

8.3174 Ratings

Longevity

7.6141 Ratings

Sillage

7.2138 Ratings

Bottle

8.6124 Ratings

Value for money

6.495 Ratings

Submitted by Omrfrq, last update on 09/10/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Le Vestiaire des Parfums collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Punk romantic

Blanche Bête

Black Tie Eau de Parfum

Velours (2016)

Gris Charnel Eau de Parfum

Rolling in Love

Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/08/2025

Nanaafromgha
151 Reviews

Nanaafromgha

4

If I were to become the sexiest ballpoint pen…

I would smell like this!!! I’ve come across ink notes in perfumes before, but this is the first time I’ve actually wanted to smell like black ink straight out of a pen.

I’ll admit, the opening of Muse feels incoherent cause that ink note is just so realistic and intense (especially if it’s a note that’s new to you). It’s strange, but in the best and most artistic way possible. As it begins to settle and make way for the other notes, you are met with a sweet and slightly boozy vanilla, wisps of lavender, and a creamy orris. Not iris the flower, orris the earthy root that accompanies the flower. You also get hints of the frankincense and dry woods. It’s very dark, mysterious, but also has a “come closer” vibe to it. I know I call just about every fragrance sexy, but this one is reallllll sexy. It’s very addictive and it’ll have you sniffing yourself like a fiend. And the purple juice is the cherry on top. This kind of iris is quite novel to me, although I have seen it compared to Velours (2016) and Black Tie Eau de Parfum.

Performance wise, this has been great so far. The sillage is strong for the first few hours and it’s not a scent that dies down quickly. You’ll continue to get wafts of it as you move, even around the 6-8 hour mark. I must say this was a very successful blind buy for me, even though I would NOT recommend blind buying this. The season in which it’s been released confuses me (it’s very hot where I am now), but I am so pleased to add this one to my small collection of iris scents and to my fall / winter artillery.

07/02/2025

8
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Caroleanne81
181 Reviews

Caroleanne81

2

Instant love!

It’s been a long time since I fell instantly in love with a scent! This was an immediate full bottle buy for me, and I bought the biggest size. I love the opening and find it so addictive.

Muse is a very comforting, classy, sophisticated, mysterious, sexy, feminine scent. I can smell all the notes, but I really love the ink. As a hater of Blanche bette and Gris Charnel, both of which I find dull, I don’t think this smells similar to them at all. Smelling them side by side, Muse is actually very close to Black Tie Eau de Parfum. It has the same elegant, powdery, softness but with the addition of the ink note, setting it apart from any other fragrance on the market. Perfect for spring, autumn and winter, and suitable for any occasion. 100% signature scent worthy! Now I can take Black Tie off my wish list. This is so very well done and just absolutely stunning!

08/04/2025

4
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 10
Scent

KT4267
14 Reviews

KT4267

1

Nostalgic but modern

Some fragrances speak in declarative tones, boldly pronouncing themselves to the world. Some speak in whispers, soft and beckoning. Muse by YSL is a quiet, contemplative and poetic composition that unfolds like a long forgotten handwritten love letter found stuffed in an antique desk.

The opening greets the nose with a trace of frankincense , but where some frankincense perfumes are heavy Muse’s is gossamer, made softer by the lavender that shifts the spicy to silk.

There’s an interesting interplay here too, where the aromatic edges of the lavender and clary sage are present but they lack the bright, sparkly quality present in other aromatic compositions. Muse trades effervescence for introspection, wearing like a soft whisper rather than a declarative statement.

As the scent begins to warm on the skin, the beautiful orris note pushes forward. It has a unique blend of powdery softness and doughy chewiness that orris root sometimes displays, but it stays even and doesn’t veer too far in either direction. The orris has almost a tactile quality to it and it’s both intimate and refined.

As time progresses, there is ink, or at least the IDEA of ink. At the base, the fantasy accord of ink emerges cool and steely, tempering the lingering warmth and sweetness of vanilla and ambrette. The result is simultaneously otherworldly and decidedly grounded. Both daring and comforting.

A slight metallic steeliness runs through the entire drydown, a polished contrast that keeps the perfume from tipping too far into gauzy comfort. It keeps the nose alert and engaged but also lulls one to stillness. Dreaming, but not asleep.

The scent lingers in the air, a memory of where you’ve walked steps before. You, a muse for another nose to follow.

Muse is not a perfume that demands attention, but it will certainly hold it. It’s contemplative and artistic. Dichotomous in that it’s sharp but soft, nostalgic and modern, shadowed, but never too dark.

It’s more than a scent. It’s a mood.

And for me it was love at first sniff.

04/10/2025

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Jasminroedig
53 Reviews

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Jasminroedig

Top Review 38

Less is simply more

Saint Laurent (or rather the artist behind it, Marie Salamagne) has once again taken the cake.

Well, my enthusiasm for this work could possibly also have something to do with the fact that my personal crème de la crème of fragrances comes together here: vanilla - lavender - iris. I think that's as good as it gets for me.

In this respect, I already had very high expectations of Muse - and hopefully one thing will become clear from this review - they were exceeded.
If you are looking for the scent of new designer clothes packed in unnecessarily printed tissue paper and then a designer paper shopping bag that is far too big, you will find it here. For me, Muse smells of the moment when you arrive home, open this very paper bag and admire your far too expensive piece of fabric once again in order to enjoy it once more. Yes, yes, everyone knows this joy doesn't last long, but it is there - for a brief moment.
And now imagine finding a fragrance that captures that very moment! Muse gives you the opportunity to prolong a moment of happiness, even to transfer it to every conceivable outfit, to every conceivable part of your body (please stick to the point...)

The lavender is very restrained, anything but decisive and austere
The vanilla is subtly woody and also opts for subtle mildness
Yes, and then we have iris as the third major player. The delicate floral in cream-powder style does not express itself any more than the rest
This is precisely the perfume's strength.
Understatement is the motto and I love everything about it!

03/25/2025

7
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

RollinStone
5 Reviews

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RollinStone

Top Review 26

Genuine French perfume art

Here it is, the new "Muse" Eau de Parfum. I've been waiting for this perfume with great anticipation for the last few days. Admittedly, a little skepticism crept in over time. Not because of the stated notes, but rather because one of the marketing images shows a woman dressed very smartly. Is it too feminine for me and will it spoil the notes? Well, you don't have to spoil it for yourself now, I thought in the end, after all it is listed as unisex and the notes indicate a certainly good spring-like fragrance!

What did I get? A perfume!
Surely it's a perfume, some of you are thinking, what else could it be!
No. I mean by perfume, it smells like the highest kind of French perfume art. This must have been the old classical school of perfume, transforming natural ingredients into art.

It is not a quickly thrown together fragrance.
Someone has put some serious thought into it.
It's a creative masterpiece.

The fragrance starts off a little rough if you're not familiar with ink in fragrances. But who doesn't know the smell of ink, I think pretty much everyone has accidentally dyed their fingers with it at a young age ;)
I liked the smell back then.

A brief history of the ink - source: tinte24.de
No, this time it wasn't the Swiss. The first written documents date back to 5000 BC by the ancient Egyptians. They wrote with rushes on papyrus and were able to use black and red inks even then. The inks were made from soot (black) or earth containing iron oxide (red), together with water and a rubbery binder.
Independently of the Egyptians, the Chinese began writing with ink around 2600 BC: they applied a type of lacquer with a bamboo stick. It was not until many years later that the Chinese also began to obtain their ink from soot. To do this, they burned lacquer and coniferous charcoal, pressed the soot into sticks and rubbed this dry ink in water until they could write with it.
The use of squid ink was also widespread in the past. The first mentions of it in Europe can be found in the Roman author Cicero (106 to 43 BC).

Interesting what it says, I didn't know that until now either! Let's get back to the scent.

So the ink is there from the start.
After 3min. It becomes slightly floral and violet-like with a gentle depth. The incense is also there right away and plays a really nice secondary chord. The ambretta seed is very animalic and polarizing. The combination of A.samen and iris absolute brings a fine leatheriness, it is also subtly powdery. Of course, the ink from the beginning is also still there and becomes slightly sweeter over time, but also somehow fresh.
The vanilla is clearly perceptible, but so light as a feather that it is barely noticeable.

I see the fragrance as 100% unisex.
I imagine it to be incredibly attractive on stylishly dressed women.
On self-confident men, it certainly has the same effect on the opposite sex.

After I put it on, I was immediately reminded of my last trip to Paris last year.
I strolled through this fascinating city, the weather was great, the people happy, food on every corner, the whole city smelled of muse, the metro, the alleyways, the museums.

Wonderful and totally incredible that they managed to capture this beautiful city in a fragrance.

In any case, this fragrance has triggered something in me.
The desire to take another little trip to the city of love in spring.

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