Y L'Elixir Yves Saint Laurent 2024
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The Y-smoke elixir
Y-smoke ... Incense ... do you understand? ;P
As a YSL fanboy and proud owner of many fragrances, including some from the Y series, I was of course very amused and excited that the good Yves is now bringing out a new, intensified version of the series.
And when I got a free sample of it in a store the other day without even asking for it, it was clear that a detailed test was soon to come ;)
In the opening, I was immediately struck by a slightly sour, sophisticated version of Y DNA. However, the incense accord immediately builds up and completely ruins the fragrance for me.
For me, incense is similar to pepper in food:
If you can perceive it in isolation and it doesn't get lost in the overall composition, it's too much of it for me and spoils the taste a little.
Unfortunately, this makes it primarily an incense fragrance for me, like This Is Him!, where this cool, dusty aura just hangs over everything.
I also think that this is not necessarily good for this already very conservative, fresh-blue men's fragrance, as it simply comes across as more serious and distant.
Acqua di Giò Profumo Parfum is actually on a very similar track, but integrates the soft smoke much more subtly and therefore better.
I cannot confirm that Y Elixir is supposed to contain oud, as I was unable to detect this.
Oud, the hyped fragrance that so many manufacturers have been trying to market profitably since M7 (2002) Eau de Toilette... very few in the mainstream really manage it.
but Versace pour Homme Oud Noir has already shown that it works well, it really makes sense there and is integrated into the fragrance, giving it an erotic slant. Or, for that matter, Tschäremie Frägränzes Date for Men, which quite successfully weaves a Gaultier Ultra Male-like DNA with oud to create a sensual experience.
There, the oud really makes sense, but here, in a cool blue fragrance that is almost devoid of any emotion,- to me it just seems like a drop of smokiness on the cool stone. ;P
I'm really curious to see what other reviews you have to say, and whether you perceive more than I do, or whether I even missed the sensation in the drydown, as I was so bored by the middle section that I gave in.
But in the end, the only question that remains for me is, Y incense YSL, y?
;)
As a YSL fanboy and proud owner of many fragrances, including some from the Y series, I was of course very amused and excited that the good Yves is now bringing out a new, intensified version of the series.
And when I got a free sample of it in a store the other day without even asking for it, it was clear that a detailed test was soon to come ;)
In the opening, I was immediately struck by a slightly sour, sophisticated version of Y DNA. However, the incense accord immediately builds up and completely ruins the fragrance for me.
For me, incense is similar to pepper in food:
If you can perceive it in isolation and it doesn't get lost in the overall composition, it's too much of it for me and spoils the taste a little.
Unfortunately, this makes it primarily an incense fragrance for me, like This Is Him!, where this cool, dusty aura just hangs over everything.
I also think that this is not necessarily good for this already very conservative, fresh-blue men's fragrance, as it simply comes across as more serious and distant.
Acqua di Giò Profumo Parfum is actually on a very similar track, but integrates the soft smoke much more subtly and therefore better.
I cannot confirm that Y Elixir is supposed to contain oud, as I was unable to detect this.
Oud, the hyped fragrance that so many manufacturers have been trying to market profitably since M7 (2002) Eau de Toilette... very few in the mainstream really manage it.
but Versace pour Homme Oud Noir has already shown that it works well, it really makes sense there and is integrated into the fragrance, giving it an erotic slant. Or, for that matter, Tschäremie Frägränzes Date for Men, which quite successfully weaves a Gaultier Ultra Male-like DNA with oud to create a sensual experience.
There, the oud really makes sense, but here, in a cool blue fragrance that is almost devoid of any emotion,- to me it just seems like a drop of smokiness on the cool stone. ;P
I'm really curious to see what other reviews you have to say, and whether you perceive more than I do, or whether I even missed the sensation in the drydown, as I was so bored by the middle section that I gave in.
But in the end, the only question that remains for me is, Y incense YSL, y?
;)
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