Le Vestiaire des Parfums

Muse Yves Saint Laurent 2025

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8.4 / 10 136 Ratings

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

Amberwood

Ink

Perfumer

Marie Salamagne

Ratings

Scent

8.4136 Ratings

Longevity

7.6110 Ratings

Sillage

7.2106 Ratings

Bottle

8.994 Ratings

Value for money

6.572 Ratings

Submitted by Omrfrq, last update on 07/31/2025.

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

Bois Doré

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/08/2025

Nanaafromgha
145 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
172 Reviews

Caroleanne81

1

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!

04/10/2025

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Jasminroedig
53 Reviews

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Jasminroedig

Very helpful Review 37

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.

04/04/2025

KatharinaG
3 Reviews

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KatharinaG

18

To see takes time. Black Iris III

"Well - I let you take your time to look at what I saw, and when you took the time to really perceive my flower, you attached all your own associations with flowers to my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - which is not the case." Georgia O'Keefe's response to the eroticized perception of her works.

I'm sorry, Georgia, but I think that too. That's what I think every time I see your Black Iris III, for example, its floral charms given by nature and intensified to the extreme by you.
I thought the same thing today when I spotted Black Iris in a scene in Handmaids Tale. And I have to laugh - your iris, of all things, this sinful iris, no less provocative than L'Origine du monde, hovers over men in Gilead (patriarchal, Christian fundamentalist state).
But back to the picture and slowly the connection to the muse must be made.
Georgia O'Keefe's magnificent flower rises from the darkness - a complex, multi-layered bloom that challenges darkness and reveals its petals, like secrets, like letters never sent under the cover of night.
Neither the black iris nor Muse is an ordinary apparition, the two are truly an opulent symphony of contrasts, with velvety black petals ( ink, dry, slightly bitter ashes of the iris root) presenting themselves in the foreground like a tantalizing night-black grotto, while the inner, upright cathedral petals glow in rich, but ever brighter opaque violet and white tones (clay-powdered lavender, delicate upper lip fluff of sage leaves, vanilla milk, creamy and sensual, flavored with light incense). And hovering above it all is a pearly mist, a soft focus; this role in the fragrance is played by the ambert musk, which reconciles the earthy, slightly metallic and smoky notes of the ink with the sweet part.
And just like the painting, the fragrance also carries a certain duality - darkness and light, profound and sensually playful, the roughness of the ink and smooth vanilla, is this the ink to outline what will later be worn on the skin or does this ink go straight under the skin? The outer or the hidden? Is the iris black or white? Is it a flower at all?
To see takes time.

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