Yves Saint Laurent
Country: France · Founded: 1964
Philosophy
YSL Beauty carries the couture house's legacy of audacious femininity and masculine-feminine tension into fragrance, from the landmark Opium (1977) that scandalized and seduced in equal measure to modern pillars like Black Opium and Libre that reframe boldness for new generations.
Fragrances (6)
Opium
1977 Oriental
opulent intoxicating powerful mysterious
The original power oriental — a spiced, resinous manifesto of 1970s excess that rewrote the rules of...
L'Homme
2006 Woody
fresh sophisticated delicate
Ginger-bright vetiver woody — quiet European sophistication that set the template for YSL's modern m...
La Nuit de l'Homme
2009 Oriental
sensual sophisticated intimate
Cardamom-spiced seduction in a cedar frame — the archetype of the modern evening masculine that trad...
Black Opium
2014 Oriental
intoxicating bold sensual playful
Coffee-spiked vanilla oriental that translated Opium's hedonism into the lingua franca of 2010s noct...
Tuxedo
2015 Woody
powerful sophisticated dark bold
Patchouli-pepper monolith from YSL's niche line — Le Smoking translated into androgynous olfactory p...
Libre
2019 Fougere
bold luminous sophisticated
Lavender-orange blossom fougère that dissolves the masculine-feminine boundary with sun-warmed confi...