Y (for women)

messy-mom

I agree with PR, my husband walked into the room after I sprayed it and asked what the horrible smell was. Musty, dusty, and just plain awful.

renneyg007

I love this. Its not a scent I would wear because you need to be fairly sophisticated to carry it or it wears you. My mother wore it and I can still recall how strong, smooth and distinctive it smelled. Despite an array of ingredients, the scent is fairly solid and very well blended. Classic.

weegee

When gardenia, tuberose and jasmine are all together among the chypre ingredients I find the overall scent choking, but I'm a big chypre fan otherwise. I've checked the ingredients of the fruity chypres, the floral chypres and the leather/aldyhylic chypres and those I dislike all contain all 3 (gard,tube & jas) but if it's just one or two of the 3 it's much more appealing to me.

Chat Lunatique

The best chypre on Earth? Well, I think so. This is a perfect blend of chypric ingredients: not too green, not too woody, not too harsh.
"Y" has so much character and is so unmistakable. Once you know it, I promise: you will not forget it.

This is what perfume *should* smell like. It smells, to me, like I imagine the best French shops smelled in the mid sixties. It is the definitive French-school fragrance!
The peach and plum lactones are just the right amount of creaminess, and don't weigh down the soft, cool elegance of this beauty.
It is at once comforting and austere, sensual and refined.
I think this one is also very accessible
to non-appreciators of old-fashioned fragrances. It is very likable and easy on the nose.
It has *marvelous* sillage. Whenever I wear it, I keep catching little smell "glimpses", and I thinking: "What is that amazing, perfect scent?" And it's me!
I disagree with other members, that this is an "office scent". That would be a waste. Wear it when you want people to know you have impeccable taste.

esprit2fly

Y, the luxury and the perfection together, a very elegant, timeless and sophisticated fragrance. A harmony between chypre, flowers and green notes. Like a green, fresh wind. A floral bouquet, very intensive. A structure riche, warm and woodly.

Jalutschka

This is a perfect green chypre - very chic, very retro, very relaxed - like a good glass of Chardonnay or a walk along the famous Rive Gauche in Paris.
A great classic, my favourite fragrance by YSL.

PR

I think ,Nuppu, there is part of a truth that it might be my chypre intolerance, and after you pointed it out, I scrolled down through the list of chypres. The part of them I smelled before, are alright, not among the favorites but alright, and how can it be that Coco Mademoiselle is chypre? total surprise and miss dior.. Perhaps the problem can be aldehydes, I don't know, because I find Rive Gauche YSL, Chanel N22,N5 quite similar, but with a less suffocative power, and they all are on the list of Floral Aldehydes, and YSL 'Y' has aldehyde among the ingredients

Nuppu

To Scent lover and PR, the problem might be just chypre genre, I also many times feel chypres suffocating and they make me cough, there's something thick and dizzying. And I do like heavy florals and strong oriental, but most chypres make me ill.

Y is beautiful, green chypre, but again, difficult to wear because of this sensitivines of many chypres.

Scent lover

To PR:

Probably our noses perceives the smells in very different way. In general I like strong, intense, complex scents and anything ligter may seem as light scent to me while for someone else it can be strong. I offered to try Paloma Picasso as I consider it as a strong chypre perfume and I was curious to know your opinion. To me Y is much much much lighter than Paloma Picasso.
Y is very well balanced chypre. A bit of green and citrusy notes and beautifully done wood. I think it is more intense than lets say Madam Rochas by Rochas but weaker than Paloma Picasso.

PR

to Scent lover: No, I haven't tried Paloma Picasso, but it is realy strange you name it as light, perhaps I should try to smell it again..though I am not very willing

Scent lover

To PR:
In opposite I feel it as quite light chypre perfume which is very well balanced too. Have you tried Paloma Picasso? I think thats the strong chypre.

PR

if it is possible to choke on the smell this is the one. Something suffocating and not too pleasant to my nose.. was coughing after smelling this for couple of minutes.'Stink bomb' came to my mind