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Yves Saint Laurent · Est. 1988

Jazz

Jazz is old-school masculinity done with conviction — a fougère-oriental that opens in a spiced rush of cinnamon, lavender, cardamom, and basil, all edged with anise and bergamot.

ConcentrationFragrance
Formasculine
Released1988
Statusenriched
Jazz — Yves Saint Laurent
1988 · Fragrance
oak·tob·lav·lea
Rating
4.1
1.6k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 24 accords.

Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.

  • Oakmoss
    65
  • Tobacco
    55
  • Lavender
    50
  • Leather
    50
  • Cinnamon
    50

By the editors · 2 min readJazz is old-school masculinity done with conviction — a fougère-oriental that opens in a spiced rush of cinnamon, lavender, cardamom, and basil, all edged with anise and bergamot. The midrange brings tarragon and iris, giving it a green, slightly medicinal character that reads as sophistication in context. The base is unapologetic: oakmoss, leather, tobacco, and patchouli layered into something dense and tenacious, softened by tonka and sandalwood. This is a fragrance from a moment when masculine perfumery had no interest in mass approval — heavy, complex, and built to last. It wears like a conviction.

Filed: Yves Saint LaurentSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap