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Eau de Parfum, Yves Saint Laurent (2018)

It's ok, pleasant and nice.

Not much else I can say about this.
Out of the shower kinda smell, or if you cant decide what to wear for the day, this is a good grab for anytime or occasion.


Overall scent 6.5- 10
Performance 5.0- 10
Sillage 5.1- 10

Update 13th June 2024:
It's been a long time since I sprayed Y EDP, but decided on a whim today to spray some on a card. It's been reformulated, but it's much better. It's a lot more buttoned up. The sweetness is toned way down and the apple note is blended in much better. I bought a bottle of the Lataffa Fakhar clone, and I just receive it 2 days after this update. It smells great, just like the reformulated Y EDP. This goes to in the massive pile of mass appealing freshies like Hugo Boss EDT where you can almost pick any one from said pile and be happy. With that said Y EDP is the hot bottle of the past year or so, so it's a little more expensive but still a good choice.

Original review 7th October 2022:
On my skin, this turns sickly sweet with green apple. This definitely leans feminine and cannot be worn by a man.

By the time I got to this one, I'd already had Eros, Sauvage, AdG, etc., so the whole sweet-fresh shower gel thing had been played out for me. I'll put this one right smack dab in the middle - it's not extraordinary, it's not bad. But it's not terribly special for the price they ask. You could certainly do better. You could certainly do worse.

Ah this reminds me of the time I went into the shower slapped on a heavy palm full of my 4 in one shower gel and lathered it up , to bad I don’t like my fragrances being indiscernible from generic shower gel.

Finally, I was able to test this on my skin and compare it to Sauavge EDP. Y EDP gave me a headache. Not because it was cloying or bad but because I couldn’t stop smelling it. I loved it so much that I gave my own self a headache smelling it and continued to smell it anyways until fatigue set in. The opening is important to any fragrance obviously because people testing it at the mall will usually only ever smell the opening before deciding to buy it. The opening was above average. I think I am beginning to understand these blue scents after owning Invictus legend and trying Sauavge. The opening is better than both of those blue scents but the heart notes. Wow. The heart and the way the base cuts through. The sage and juniper berries mingling with the cedar and tonka bean is just so blissful. There’s a salty note that has been boggling my mind and I can’t figure out from where this salty note comes from. Is it the ambroxan? The salty note reminds me of salted caramel. The dry down is the typical YSL cedar which is always nice and smooth but add in the tonka bean and the smell of salted caramel and you have the dry down for Y EDP. It’s fresh and woody yet creamy and delicious at the same time. It goes beyond the “shower gel” smell of Sauvage. It doesn’t have an overly sweet opening like Invictus Legend. To call this a blue scent is an injustice to it. This is unique and fun. It’s also nice that YSL has a fragrance that is strong again. I love L’Homme and LNDL but they were never strong (I’m talking about preformulated too). L’Homme and LNDL are inviting and alluring fragrances that draw people in to your personal space. Y edp is more assertive but never aggressive. When someone smells the sillage as you walk past, they will smell the fresh top notes but once they get close enough, the cedar/Tonka bean and salted caramel notes become apparent. As I said earlier it’s both fresh and delicious. How did Sauavge do in comparison? It barely left my skin enough for me to smell it and I smelled Sauvage first. When I could smell it, I thought to myself, “why not just buy a quality body wash instead of this perfume?”. Sauvage’s impression on me is just that; expensive soap. Which is unfortunate because I wanted to like both.

Nice enough scent. Definitely not smelling like a lot of other recent blue fragrances which is a good thing.

I'm reminded of the discontinued Transat from Yves Rocher, which was done by Kurkdjian. That one sat at a lower price point and was scratchier because of it, Y EDP is not, it's very smooth. Main notes to me: a powdery, somewhat make up like apple accord, lavender/geranium/vetiver combo, a bit of amber extreme, tonka.

So it's an aquatic with a hint of gourmand (tonka) and a really good "Hugo!"-like apple accord with a nice powderiness. Doubted between neutral and positive but it smells too good to get just a neutral.