Y Le Parfum
Yves Saint Laurent (2021)

Hands down my favorite of the Y line. Lasts a long time and gets attention.

I don't smell grapefruit OR apple, I smell sweet, fizzy pineapple as this opens up. Its juicy, sweet and tangy. It truly is a great opening sequence. 👏 🍍

It settles as a soft aromatic. Yes, that designer-lavender+cedar, with a dash of something that smells *similar* to Mon Guerlain. Please, don't misunderstand me at all, it's not as if this smells like MG, or that it's feminine (who gives a rip though, wear whatever you like regardless of gender), but it's the sweet tonka along with lavender, with a dash of patchouli that causes this. This has a decidedly clean cedar base that MG lacks, plus MG is much more vanillic and floral. Still, they could be bro&sis, and smell related in a way. If you enjoy MG on women, you might enjoy wearing this fragrance on *you* (hope that makes sense).

I need to agree with other reviewers, this is wonderful in cold weather (tonka is fantastic in winter).

This is a nice combination of something that smells like nice soap or body wash, coupled with a soft, gentlemanly fragrance. It's herbal and elegant. I like mucb prefer this to the original Y.

A little too strong and sweet for me. Not masculine or deep enough to be a signature scent IMO. Mall vibes.

Bought this for the hubs - he smelled it on a stranger and asked what he was wearing. It's not something I would buy, but I don't mind it. It's not exactly "department store" but it's not strange or specific enough for me. The top is a BLAST of citrus, almost headache inducing, but the woody base is quite nice. If nothing else, I like it on him. Just not for me.

Very similar opening to the EdP version. The drydown has a more powdery, dryer sheet sweetness. I find this to be an improvement over the original EdT and like it slightly better than the EdP. That said, if you have and enjoy the EdP, then there's no reason to get the Parfum. Too similar in my opinion.

I get excellent performance, especially during the first few hours. Like the EdT and EdP, the projection and scent are piercing. After it calms down, the Parfum is very pleasant and wearable, similar to the EdP.

The topnotes here are fun. It's green and herbal (rbaker says minty geranium and I believe him), but also candy-sweet, and the rose facets of the geranium add a clever floral twist.

Within a few minutes, it dries down to a Cool Water-esque marine fougere, but with the salty/sour herbal geranium from the topnotes providing a counterpoint to the artificial beach smell. I've always found that Cool Water-inspired scents feel "green" to me, so the way Y Le Parfum plays around with added green is more clever than the genre usually is.

As far as mass-market masculines go, I like that Y Le Parfum doesn't fall into stereotypical bleachy nonsense, the topnotes are nice, and the interplay of the geranium with the ambrox in the Cool Water base is enough to lift this to a "thumbs up" even though I usually don't like marine fougeres. Surprisingly nice.