Yohji

Many times in my life I had the pleasure to smell something great and pleasant, though subtle to the point of not being an attention seeker at all, one that can get lost in a crowd of others - pressing to your attention and senses. A creation persisting in memory though, as being infinitely pleasant and refined. If you seek intense sensations it is not your immediate type, but it creates a sense of need to posses. Refined elegance. Gentle pleasure. Like a second skin. As if an amplified skin scent of mine. It melts with me in a delightful way. Back then, I rarely felt the need to wear scents. This one was subtle enough for me then, to wear it, as a fragrance newbe. Though I loved many in my joy de vivre as I moved ahead in my life. Be it a plant or liquid, I experienced it with near equal pleasure :) I only wanted scents to brighten up my evenings and to dive easily into the night. Yohji, I could love also during a day. My near infinite exploration quest has so many scents recorded in my memory perfectly :) I can still bring the memories back and recognize them instantly. A little bit of this creation came to my possesion then, and is still one of my favourites. Now, only the best hunters can get it :) Comfortable to spend time with, unmistakable - radiating joy, subtlety, mystery and freshness in its glowy, happy state. I feel so good in it. It is also summer resistant - performs great, and makes me feel mmm... and I rarely tolerate parfums during summer daytime. This enhances me in a comfortable way. June 2024 and the start is a sweet soprano. The 2013 differs from the original. It is not as smooth I can feel sandalwood-musk today upon application and a bit of freesia and nutmeg. Sadly I have no second skin experience today. Spring 2022 it was so much like the original which was a delight during summer. There is also a eau de parfum version - not sure is reformulated since the original release which reminds me of Champs-Elysees

i just snaffled a bottle of this on eBay, wondering if it was my old favourite from the 90's and it is. hello old friend. back then, it felt very unique and i do believe i bought in it Harrods when it was launched. someone was squirting people with this new release, as we walked by. My boyfriend had staff discount. That's where i first discovered Boudoir too. And Shocking. Used to love visiting that shiney perfume department before i met him after work outside the staff entrance. another life. i have tested it on paper and Yohiji is a potent little number. sweet, a bit fruity, unisex, a touch aromatic. there is that sweet cardboardy smell in there for me too. the main notes for me are the vanilla, musk and sandalwood. sharpened with a dash of something aromatic, cypress perhaps? but is there cypress in this? it smells like lavender to me! and i can smell blackberry leaves and some patch. jasmine? nope. it is so strange (and tricky) dissecting a perfume i just used to spray on and forget about and one that has allegedly been reformulated or at least re-nosed. will have to come back to this one on skin another time. i was wearing Lothair last night, an aromatic spicey, with a good dose of vanilla in it - and these two oddly remind me of eachother. aromatic vanilla. but according to the Yohji website, there's no vanilla in this. ho hum. still love Yohji and i would recommend hunting it down, as i can see that it is out of stock online, after 3 short years, other than eBay. let's hope it's just because they are changing the bottle design or something.

Apparently I am wearing this, because I just bought this (Nov 2016) from a trustworthy Italian online shop (Ivo Milan), and the other [white] Yohji for women is discontinued. However, when I look at the notes lists (above), I only smell those from the "other" Yohji, not these that I am supposed to notice. I don't get any bergamot, I don't get any nutmeg or jasmine or freesia. How is it possible? In the beginning this is very green and masculine to me, also I get some powdery notes. Later on, the scent gets more feminine, it is kind of powdery vanilla. All in all, this is quite magnificent, as this is both usual and unique at the same time! This kind of reminds me of so many other (ordinary department store) fragrances - and still, this is totally different from any of them. For me this is very strong (in all possible meanings), warm and personal. I keep sniffing my arm all the time, can't get enough of of this. I also agree in this being a chypre scent, as all my all time favorites belong to that group. Recommended to other chypre lovers.

What a fun little elegant scent we have here! Sandalwood and nutmeg, reminding me a *little* of Ma Liberte from Jean Patou. Just gorgeous, a little sweet here and a little herbaceous there. In a strange way, almost manly ... but it seems to keep its genderless qualities intact with a very unusual nod back to the women's scents from the days of old. Very enjoyable! I'm glad a good friend gave me this, along with Ma Liberte. I'm beginning to notice patterns in the things she's given me and discern a sort of pattern. Very interesting!

Does anyone know where I can buy this perfume in New York? I've been waiting for so long to get it since it was discontinued! I tried all the online stores but they do not ship internationally :( (Selfridges, House of Fraser, Debenhams, boots) This perfume reminds me of Chanel Chance Eau Fraiche ;)