I Love YY by Bogue Profumo

Lucky Scent says:

I LOVE YY is a whirlwind of delightful chaos, with perfect touches of New York everywhere you look - cold, fizzy grapefruit captures a brisk spring morning run in Central Park. The titular ylang note is camphorous and lactonic, joining tonka, rose, and jasmine to feel sweet and rich, buzzing like a packed after-hours party. An edgy violet leaf recalls the flashbulbs and fluorescents of a hot new gallery opening in the Meatpacking District. And all of these notes intertwine in a glorious hum of energy, light, sweetness and intoxicating depth that can only represent one single, gigantic, overwhelming, wonderful city. We couldn't be more excited that Antonio Gardoni and Bogue chose to join us in our inaugural NYC adventure. Won't you come with us?

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Dr B1414
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I LOVE YY from Bogue Profumo.

An uplifting composition that brings me so much joy wherever I smell it. This is your carefree Southeast Asian holiday trip, hopping on one of those scooters that look beyond unsafe, without a shirt and helmet on, taking your chances, gutsy after having too many cocktails and a good time. Or your vanilla custard topped with caramelized sugar dessert served with a cup of coffee and a banana on the side. Could you do both at the same time?

It makes me think of those sorts of things. Because it smells like that to me. It is an all-out Ylang-Ylang perfume where the canvas is the flower and everything else is drawn on it. I don't vibe with this particular floral note, but here, it is done to perfection. Lush, meaty, a bit damp, with a prominent banana-like facet. It's present from start to finish. There is some cooling verdant quality in the opening paired with a juicy grapefruit note. The heart is all about the Ylang but with some peculiar accords embellishing it that I can't pin down. There is an almost burnt sugary quality to it, as well as a roasted coffee accord. And of course, the banana-like facet. It feels like an exotic desert. The dry down is all about the benzoin, which steers in a prominently powdery-vanillic direction. It is delicious without coming off as gourmand, savory, or juvenile. Rather sophisticated with an edge and an exotic flair.

Suppose MEM is a study in Lavender, Il Dieci in Sandalwood, and RISK on the Gulf Area Oud aesthetics. In that case, YY is a study in Ylang-Ylang, one that would find much appreciation even among those who don't particularly care for this ingredient.

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8th March 2024

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ClaireV
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I Love YY surprises me, mostly because, for a creation of Antonio Gardoni, it is remarkably straight forward. Yes, it certainly has a bit of that boozy herbal vibe that undercuts much of the Bogue back catalogue. But the sharpness of Gardoni’s shaving foam citruses and culinary herbs is almost entirely muffled by a ylang note so muscular it’s like a silverback sitting on kittens.

What is remarkable to me about I Love YY is the way that its topnotes are kind of musty, like damp cardboard doused in 80% dark cocoa powder – perhaps the natural result of a tonka bean roasted at high heat. I’m not a fan of the grapey-banana ylang, to be honest. But I’d totally hang around for more of that musty cocoa note.