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Yves Saint Laurent · Est. 1998

Live Jazz

Live Jazz opens with a bright citrus chord—lemon and grapefruit cutting through like a spotlight on stage, backed by a cool whisper of mint.

ConcentrationFragrance
Formasculine
Released1998
Statusenriched
Live Jazz — Yves Saint Laurent
1998 · Fragrance
amb·van·lem·ced
Rating
4.2
0.8k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 6 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.

  • Amber
    40
  • Vanilla
    35
  • Lemon
    35
  • Cedar
    30
  • Ozonic
    15

By the editors · 2 min readLive Jazz opens with a bright citrus chord—lemon and grapefruit cutting through like a spotlight on stage, backed by a cool whisper of mint. It's immediate and energizing, the kind of opening that clears the air before settling into something warmer.

As it develops, the brightness softens into a creamy amber-vanilla accord, grounded by cedar's dry woodiness and a subtle rasp of nutmeg. The citrus doesn't vanish entirely but recedes into the background, giving way to a smoother, more intimate finish. The contrast between the fresh opening and the amber base creates a pleasant push-pull.

This is casual sophistication—something for evening without pretense, a scent that feels easygoing yet deliberate. It suits someone who wants presence without projection, a fragrance that works in conversation rather than across a room.

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

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap