La Collection Y
A La Collection reworking of YSL's 1964 feminine Y, reformulated as a Chypre Floral for the 2011 archival re-release series.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Mossy65
- Iris60
- Patchouli55
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Spices
- Bergamot
- Pink Pepper
- Iris
- White Flowers
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readA La Collection reworking of YSL's 1964 feminine Y, reformulated as a Chypre Floral for the 2011 archival re-release series. Bergamot opens with a touch of spice, then iris arrives in the heart alongside pink pepper — dry and slightly floral, with the powdery characteristic that places it clearly in the iris-chypre family.
Oakmoss and patchouli anchor the base in the green, slightly waxy terrain of classic chypre composition. It's understated for the house, building minimal trail and sitting close to skin. The original Y was an early YSL feminine benchmark; this reworking defers to that heritage without trying to update it.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
