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Yves Saint Laurent · Est. 2022

Y Eau de Toilette

The opening strikes sharply—ginger's peppery heat tempered by bergamot's bright citrus.

ConcentrationFragrance
Formasculine
Released2022
Statusenriched
Y Eau de Toilette — Yves Saint Laurent
2022 · Fragrance
ber·ced·lav·inc
Rating
4.2
1.2k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 8 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.

  • Bergamot
    40
  • Cedar
    35
  • Lavender
    35
  • Incense
    30
  • Vanilla
    25

By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes sharply—ginger's peppery heat tempered by bergamot's bright citrus. It's clean but forceful, the kind of first impression that clears the air in a room. Within minutes, lavender and clary sage arrive with their aromatic weight, herbal and slightly medicinal, grounding the brightness without softening it completely.

As it settles, the base reveals a woody-resinous structure: olibanum adds church-like depth, cedar provides dry support, while vanilla and ambergris smooth the edges just enough to keep it from turning austere. The result reads masculine in the conventional sense—linear, confident, built for visibility.

This is a fragrance for someone who wants presence without complexity, clarity without subtlety. It moves through its phases predictably, never surprising but never faltering. Best suited to professional settings or evenings where polish matters more than personality.

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

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap