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Yves Saint Laurent · Est. 2024

Y Elixir

Y Elixir opens with a burst of bright lavender, aromatic and medicinal in the best sense—clean without being detergent, herbal without being green.

ConcentrationFragrance
Formasculine
Released2024
Statusenriched
2024 · Fragrance
inc·lav·oud·lea
Rating
3.5
0.8k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 10 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.

  • Incense
    75
  • Lavender
    70
  • Oud
    65
  • Leather
    20
  • Sandalwood
    15

By the editors · 2 min readY Elixir opens with a burst of bright lavender, aromatic and medicinal in the best sense—clean without being detergent, herbal without being green. It feels intentionally stark, a deliberate contrast to what follows. Within minutes, the lavender begins to darken as frankincense emerges, resinous and church-like, adding weight and a faint smokiness that transforms the composition entirely.

The drydown anchors on oud, but this is oud rendered in broad strokes rather than fine detail—woody, slightly leathery, and smooth rather than animalic or challenging. The frankincense persists, lending an almost devotional gravity to the whole. The effect is both austere and wearable, a masculine fragrance that prioritizes presence over charm.

It suits someone comfortable with a slightly severe signature, someone who wants a fragrance that feels serious without turning overtly sweet or spiced. The lavender-oud axis gives it enough familiarity to feel modern rather than esoteric, though it never feels casual.

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

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap