La Collection Yvresse

YSL Yvresse edt: Formerly First Launched As: "YSL Champagne" In 1993 And Was Available As Both An Etd & Edp. The Meaning Of The French Word Yvresse = "Intoxication"!! [Fragrance Family: Fruity Chypre] I Remember The Very Day That YSL Launched Their New Perfume Called Champagne, And The Beautiful Bottles It Arrived In!! "I Still Have/And So Glad To Have A Full Brand New, Unused Limited Edition Edp, That Came With The Most Beautiful Mini Champagne Amber Coloured Fat Mini Bottle Pendant That Sit's Beside The Actual Perfume Bottle In It's Beautiful Metallic Gold Coloured Box With The Bold Black Champagne Writing On It"!! And All The Fuss The Woman (Counter Manageress) That Worked On The YSL Counter Made About It's Launch!! I Remember Lifting Up The Beautiful Heavy Glass Bottle, And Sniffing It On My Launch Break, lol"lol And This Fizzy Kinda Strawberry Aroma Hitting My Nose, And Kind Of Tickling It!! And The Younger Girl On The YSL Counter Laughing And Saying "Champagne By Name, Champagne By Nature"!! And Her Telling Me To Go Ahead And Spray Some On!! "NOTHING" At That Time Smelt Like This New Perfume, And I Was'nt Sure Then About It As I Was Quite Young Myself, And If It Was To Mature Smelling For Me!! But I Remember The Counter Girl Telling Me To Let It Wear And Settle On My Skin, As The Longer It's On Your Skin, The Actual Nicer It Get's!! (And How Right She Was) She Also Gave Me Three Small Samples Of It To Keep And Try Out!! I Remember Going Back Upstairs To The Dept I Worked In, And Everyone Who Worked In The Same Dept As I Did, Asking Me And Saying What Is That Truly Amazing Fragrance I Was Wearing etc, And Me Telling Them About It, And Them All Going Downstairs To The Perfumery To Steal A Squirt Or Cadge A Wee Sample Of It!! lol"lol"lol The Smell Of YSL Champagne Hitting Every Customers Nose That Came Into Our Dept That Afternoon To Buy!! And Before Home Time That Day, I Actually Bought Myself That Beautiful Limited Edition Shiny Gold YSL Champagne edp Box With The Added Champagne Pendant In It, (As I Knew It Was Something Very Special Indeed Too Treasure) Plus A Single 50ml edp That I Could Use/Wear And Enjoy Right Away!! I Also Remember My Mum Smelling It On Me, And Her Also Loving It, And My Dad Giving Me The Money, And Telling Me To Get Her One, First Thing On Monday Morning When The Store Re-Opened Again!! And From That Day To This, I've ALWAYS Kept A Bottle In My Vast Perfume Collection!! And Yet Im Really Not That Keen On Any Fruity Type Of Perfume!! But Somehow Yvresse Is Still So Unique Smelling To Any Offering Thats On The Current Fragrance Market!! It's Utter Pure Undiluted Class Till This Day!! I Love"Love"Love It!! Just Wish They Still Included The edp In It's Very Limited Line Up Though!! But Once It Settles Down On Your Skin After The First Initial Blast (5-10Min's) You'll Be Then Greated With The Most Beautiful Nectarine Aroma 🍑 That's Just So Beautiful,Fresh And Soft And As I've Said Before, Im NOT One For/Or Who Wear's Fruity Fragrances Point Blank!! (NOT That Keen On Litchy In Perfumes Either Tbh) But I Absolutely LOVE The Candid Violet Note In This, And The Way The Rose Note Blends Seemlessly Into The Structure Of This Stunning Fragrance!! All Held Together With The Base Note Of Minty Fresh Patchouli!! And Yes I Absolutely Adore Any Fragrance That Has Patchouli In It!! YSL Rive Gauche Will Always Be My ALL Time Favourite Signature Fragrance, But This Deffo Is The Next YSL Fragrance I Would Most Likely Reach For, Followed By Their Elle edp!! A Real Shame That YSL Chose To Discontinue My Other Love Which Was Their Nu!! For Along Side My Rive Gauche And Yvresse I Had The Most Wonderful Fragrances Ever To Choose From!! I Hope Someone From YSL Fragrance House Actually Takes The Time To Read Our Honest Reviews Here, And Actually Takes On Board What All The Loyal YSL Customers Are Saying!!

I longed to feel 23 again, and searched for a bottle of the original, I had a couple of bottles around 93/94 when we knew it as "champagne" but because of the name change, and I heard that champagne had been discontinued, I never wore it again, til yesterday. All these years since this came out in 2011, I didn't have a clue you were "the champagne" staple of my early to mid twenties, I promptly ordered a bottled on Wednesday and couldn't wait for delivery, so I check out next day delivery and paid £6 for the pleasure All these years I have been without the luscious crispiness, so I looked for a vintage bottle. I found this and I was so surprised to find out this was indeed champagne, but with an updated name, such happy days, perfumes do hold their history, your memories, this is another reason while I adore perfume, fragrance, because it means so much more than just the scent, the smell. Now onto the review. Straight away the violet hit me, the fruits and the fizz of the champagne was straight under my nose, like a champagne glass and the bubbles hitting under my nose. I love Violet smelling perfumes, and mellow yellow scents, and this is very yellow profile, yellow sunflowers, narcissi, and I definitely can smell carnation. I adore my lifetime love and carnation fragrance, boudoir, by Vivienne Westwood, this was my favourite perfume of all time, she is now deceased (the perfume) People are saying in the review here they can't smell the Carnation, but I would say the carnation is the third prevalent scent profile that I can detect. Once it's settles, even though an EDT, (shame it doesn't come in an EDP) when I opened the bottle the first three sprays and then in the morning, I could still smell carnation on my wrist. After the fruity/floral, spice, a definite powdery-ness, which I adore, reminds me of a newborn baby, smelling all clean and cosy, with the crispiness of apples and 🍇 and finally, the definite vintage air of this fragrance, but it is not so vintage it is out of place today. I can smell daffodil, juicy fruit and a floral musky and powdery, resinous, sparkling gorgeousness. This will be my new day-to-day perfume. My Hermes 24 Faubourg I shall keep for the evenings. This is one of the truly most luscious fragrances, it is literally good enough to devour, just like a champagne 🍾 cocktail 🥂 One last note, lol the projection is very good for an EDT and the sillage surprisingly goes up to my shoulder

This was an impulse nostalgia buy after looking on eBay for the real deal and getting a real shock at the prices! In 1992/1993 I worked in a local pharmacy and we were the only local stockists of ‘fine perfumes’ - which for my little town meant mostly Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Guerlain, Nina Ricci and the odd bottle of Dior or Chanel. The instantly recognisable scents of those days - Ysatis, Amarige, Champagne, Rive Gauche, Paris... they instantly transport me back to my 16 year old self, selling these exquisite perfumes to elegant ladies and wishing I could pull off these gorgeous scents. Fast forward a few years (!) and I am rediscovering all these classics. I ordered Yvresse with more than a little trepidation after reading the reviews lamenting how little it now resembled the original. BUT.... one spray today and I’m hooked all over again! I have never found another scent that genuinely feels ‘fizzy’ in the way this does. That sweet peach/nectarine hit is very much still at the forefront but seems more wearable and less cloying than I recall. The drydown reveals the balanced floral of rose and the warmth of the patchouli and a honey note. Even more importantly, it passed the discerning nose of my four daughters who all love it and want to know when it came out - so not as dated as I had feared - and it will now need hidden or I’ll barely get a spray to myself! I know they say you shouldn’t look back, but I’m so glad I rediscovered this old friend.

My favorite perfume I never smelled the original but it doesn’t matter bec I love this perfume. I’ve been looking for a peach nectarine perfume for a long time and I found it. This smells just like Nina Ricci’s Deci Dela perfume which was discontinued a long time ago. I compared the notes and they are very similar. I am so happy to own it. It smells classy, sophisticated, happy, bright, and youthful. Wearing this perfume puts me in a great mood. The sillage and projection is great. I wore it in the office and my co worker complimented me that I smell so good. This lasts all day even after I shower. The nectarine peach is mouth watering and intoxicating. I just love it so much. There is a Bath & Body Works lotion called Sparkling Peach Sangria. It has a similar vibe. When I smell Yvresse on the bottle, the scent is strong and sweet. Its heavenly. You can wear this all year round as a signature scent or for special occassions. I panicked when I saw its been sold out. I was wondering why its always 20% off sale on the yslbeauty website. What’s going on? Please don’t discontinue this. It is such a beautiful scent that I can’t live without. It’s intoxicatingly beautiful.

Gosh! My first thought was delicious fruity champagne. The scene from Charley and Chocolate Factory (the original and the best) popped into my head as Grandad and Charlie float upwards towards possible disaster but a good burp saves the day! Ripe peaches bobbing along in fizzy champagne. There is also the unmistakeable lychee note. Fresh ripe lychees picked straight from the tree smell like heaven and I am glad a perfume house has taken full advantage of this beautiful note. I definitely get a bit of accent from the violet, sweetness from rose and earthiness from patch in the background. Eventually the peachiness fades and then its all about a touch of lychee, some violet and a bit of patch. I cant believe this beauty has managed to stay below my perfume testing radar. Its supposed to be edt strength but Im sure its stronger. Good sillage and average longevity. This juice is gorgeous but now it makes me wonder how divine the original formulation must have been. So sad.

This is another perfume I bought blindly and I have to say that I'm so glad I did. I honestly wish that every perfume had Yvresse's power - this fragrance is VERY strong. It starts with a massive blast of stone fruits and violets, and while it is a linear fragrance overall, the initial burst of sweetness eventually calms down and the rose and patchouli come out to play. I find the patchouli in this to be more of a natural smell - earthy and deep with woody facets, which helps keep the fragrance from feeling juvenile or sickly sweet. As for the longevity and silage of Yvresse, it is absolutely astonishing. A few sprays last me all day on my skin and a few days on clothing - and I'm normally the type of guy to COVER myself in perfume. This happy little bomb will quickly fill out a room in the most pleasant way. This beast gets a solid 9/10 :)

I bought my first bottle of this perfume when I was 18 years old. This was wayyyy back when it was still called Champagne. It was so unique to me back then. Neither floral nor ambery/spicy. I had never smelled anything like it before and just fell in love with it. It's one of only 3 fragrances that I've continued to repurchase over the years. I can hardly describe what this scent means to me. Sometimes it's comforting, sometimes it makes me feel just feminine and pretty and some days it's pure nostalgia, but it always feels very ME or like coming home. If that makes sense. This newer version is not as in your face bold and sexy as the original 90's version, but somehow softer or fluffier. Which I don't mind at all. I wear Yvresse for me, so it's okay that it sits closer to the skin.

Is it the original Champagne? No. But the current formulation of Square-bottle Yvresse is closer to the original Champagne than it has been in YEARS....close enough that I purchased not one but two bottles on a recent trip to Paris. For many years the square-bottle Yvresse was very displeasing to me, smelling entirely too synthetic/powdery/sharp and the effervescent peachy citrus opening was almost absent, I could simply not justify a purchase. Thankfully that has changed and I'm extremely pleased to have this in my collection, as it satisfies by craving for Ysl Champagne well enough. Perhaps L'Oreal has taken the fragrance community seriously and improved their reformulations? One can only hope.

I've just picked up a bottle, when compared to the original, there is a difference, mainly in the opening, but the drydown is almost identical, it's wonderfully smooth. The YSL assistant explained that the fragrance had a 'live fruit' ingredient, and it is the fruit that makes this unique. I can imagine sales of this are very poor in comparison to new additions like Black Opium and old classics like Rive Gauche, so thanks YSL for keeping going with it. My only criticism would be the horrible chunky bottle, it works so well with my bottle of M7, heavy and bulky, Yvresse is so light and feminine, it needs something more delicate. It is still unique and fabulous, love it.

Smelled it for the first time on my grandma and fell in love with it she had champagne which was more intense and lasted for days it was crazy how such a strong scent never irritated my throat allergey, Yvresse is beautiful it lasts long just not the same intensity as the original one but still beautiful it makes you feel like you entered a black & white movie, it's expansive but worth every cent as it lasts forever due to it's intense scent you won't need much, I'm backing up from it as the stocks for it have been worrying

I just compared this to my vintage edition ( the old champagne bottle) They are very much alike in a very positive sense. The nectarine is the most dominant note, followed by litchi and patchouli. Fizzy, sparkling, lively and joyous. I love the Life in this scent. Mood liftting and energizing. Love love love this one... and I enjoy it just as much as my vintage one which I use sparingly. Longevity and silageis both impressive 8+ hours on clothes and skin. Loads of compliments wearing this one ...

I compared a vintage sample of this fragrance to this version and they smell identical to my nose. There is no reason to buy the original in a FB on ebay when this can be had for sooo much less. The majority here are right this smells like the perfume in the original bottle. Gorgeous stuff. Vintage style. Best nectarine, bubbly champagne style fragrance I've ever encountered. YSL your vintage fragrances are so much better then what you make now. Promote this gorgeous fragrance, it will sell.

Wow this is the best fruity chypre ever. I can vaguely remember the original but I was very young and wasn't keen then. It was too sophisticated for my young nose. Fast forward 40 yrs and BOOM. I read the notes and had to have it. Risky for a blind buy coz it's not cheap or easy to find but I'm sooo glad I did. Its like a fresh cut peach ,watery dewy rose and finally patchouli. Its stunning this would easily be my signature scent if easier to come by. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Yes it is a bit different than the original Yvresse but it is very close to that scent (for the first 2 hours almost identical). And the most important thing of all, at least for me, it is worth the money. It has great sillage and it is very long lasting! I love it and i usually hate reformulations. But you have to remember this: thay had stopped producing the perfume at all! So we should be happy they brought it back in the market. I am!

The actual juice is much more complex than the listed pyramid: a peach explosion that mellows into spicy amber. I suspect this reissue is faithful to the original, although I haven’t sniffed it. As in the original pyramid, I can smell some peach, cinnamon, aniseed and vanilla. 2011 Yvresse is plump, fun and borderline excessive in its fruitness. It reminds me of two things I love: Mitsouko and Bellinis. A perfect pairing.

Love this fizzy classic. It has 80s vibes but is not as over familiar as Paris. It’s a joyful fizzy fragrance with a peach informed, rather than literal, top note. It has staying power and although I wear it often with casual jeans and a tee, the initial impression is of a dressy event perfume. It is a beautiful evocation of champagne. Just buy it for your happy classy self.

my mom wore this to go out and for special occasions. when i graduated high school, she gave me a bottle as a gift. i smell it and think of my mom getting ready, and how beautiful she would look. the nectarine mixed with the violet creates a lightly fruity and sweet powdery scent that's reminiscent of both women's cosmetics and champagne in the best way

This is absolutely divine, I want to smell it again and again. The top notes pickle my nose like lovely sweet champagne, then the scent turns creamier, like rose lipstick, very elegant and comforting. It stays on clothes for several days or even weeks (on a coat or fur) and also lasts long on skin (8+ hours).

Ok it's not the same as the old stuff but I personally love this one and my skin is in love with it! The perfume which collect the most compliments when I'm wearing it. Stays all day and gives a very elegant feeling. The only chypre fruity I love! 10 excellent!

When they discontinued this perfume after canceling the Champagne version, my scent loving heart broke. No other perfume has ever quite resonated with my soul as this does. Effervescent, happy, confident, feminine, exuberant, joyful and adventurous ❤️