Lavalliere

Lavalliere by Yves Saint Laurent Actually, Lavalliere is something I don't expect to like. I love rose in general but not fruity. And I find other Rose offering from the line are medicore both Blouse and Rouge Velours due to personal test. Blouse for me is boring musky rose that quite close to skin dry down to sort of Waxy Soap/candle nuance. Rogue Velours is soft Patchouli Rose fragrance that dry down to musky sort of feel, I don't find that sexy really. Maybe because I have better rose that I like for Musky Powdery Rose - I like - Rose des Vents by LV for Patchouli Rose - I have few others that I like - Eau Capitale, I like it more rough. So I expect Lavalliere to be another miss as well. But I am wrong. This reminisce of 2 others fragrance that I absolutely don't like : L'homme A La Rose in Amberwood aspect. And L'ombre dans L'eau in Green/Fruity aspect. But oh, Boy this blends so well. I still sniff rose strongly, with other floral but the fruity is supporting make it fresh and sweet. On the base of something musky. Oh-boy Oh-boy. While this is not truly sexy but It has playful side, almost firstly. Please do go test, for me this is solid 8/10. ===== Update 2 on October 2, 2024 The scent is still in my collection. I declutter my fragrance size down. Eventually, I boiled down to Lavalliere by YSL after comparision to few other green/rose fragrance. (The bid was La Colle Noire and L’ombre dans L’eau) I find Lavalliere blends nice enough with sufficient details in scent. It can be looks either way (fresh, green, fruity and clean fluffy musk) or (rosy fruity rose with steam) The key of Lavalliere is I haven’t find this kind of rose fragrance in modern perfumery (ambery tose) that nice like this. It well balance scent with personality. The message would be fun and playful, young and carefree but not careless. I might grown out of it. Actually. But I will drop her 8/10 as the same.

I received a bottle of this for free, to review; this in no way affects my opinion or willingness to write a negative review. Lavalliere starts with an intoxicating blast of fruity, floral and surprisingly bold green notes. The tartness and subtle green woodiness of blackcurrant offers a complimentary yet contrasting element to the deeper, sweeter fruitiness of fig and green grassiness of vetiver. Instead of dry and dusty, we are presented with a freshly picked rose which both stands out from, and blends seamlessly with the other floral notes. Geranium intermingles with the rose and fruit, as well as adding an almost citrusy sparkle, giving a little extra character to the bergamot. Jasmine provides a light powdery note that combines with cashmeran and musk in the base, giving it a soft complexity that no one of those ingredients could provide alone. Vetiver, along with the blackcurrant add a very garden-like feeling to the florals, making them feel fresher and more alive. As it dries down the rose becomes slightly more prominent. The green notes, while still strong, take on a woodier essence as some of the freshness fades (but never fully disappears). It maintains a powdery, slightly soapy note throughout, but always in the background it never becomes overwhelming. It projects well for the first couple of hours, then begins to sit a bit closer to the body. Even then it lingers as you move around, the sillage staying strong for many more hours. With four sprays, one on each arm, one chest spray under my shirt and one on my shirt, I find I'm still catching occasional whiffs of it at the 6 or 7 hour mark. Overall it's a fantastic perfume. It takes on a very unique position in my collection, especially as a rose-forward fragrance. I could see many having the opinion that it leans feminine, but it is still very unisex, even from a more traditional standpoint.

One of my all-time favorite scents, if not my number one. I first tried this at Sephora and kept coming back to spray it again for weeks but couldn’t afford the price tag. Eventually that Sephora shut down and I was without a fix for almost a year. I kept my eye on discount retailers but the price was still too rich for my blood. I finally broke down and ordered a 5ml from Microperfumes. A few days later someone reached out to me and was selling a lightly used bottle for almost half off retail including shipping, and I jumped on it. This one is very green and bright. I favor the top notes the best. The tartness hangs in there, I feel like I’d prefer that a little more subtle but it’s still beautiful. You get the rose right at the opening and it remains prominent throughout. The geranium pulls it a little more earthy and adds to the green quality of the scent. Think rose stems as well as buds. The fig here adds a touch of sweetness without being overpowering. The blackcurrant is so well blended that you get the tartness without the urine smell that you usually have with other fragrances. I don’t get jasmine. A great wear for daytime in warm weather, but also I would wear this at night on a formal outing. Smells expensive because it is. This is the only scent from YSL’s high end line that I like, but I absolutely adore it. It’s a unique fragrance to my nose, perfectly blended and effortlessly beautiful. Becomes a skin scent sooner than I would like but I can still smell it on my clothes the next day. I would call it unisex because it isn’t too sweet and the rose deep.

A dance of elegance and complexity, like a silk scarf fluttering in the breeze, wrapping itself around you with effortless grace. Fig forward rose, like an ancient garden where fruits and flowers grow side by side, scents mingling in the warm air. This fig is ripe, sweet and fleshy, but not of overripe, syrupy richness, with a subtle green undertone that freshens up the whole composition. It brings an earthiness, possibly stemming too from the geranium, the soft, all-natural juice of the fruit grounding the fragrance with its deep, delectable character. The rose in contrast, is airy and delicate, not the heavy, opulent bulgarian variety but the lighter turkish sort—fresh petals, soft and dewy, caressed by the breeze. There’s a quiet elegance to both components, and when paired together, they stay very much true to their original self, yet also transform ever so gracefully. The fig doesn’t dominate; instead, it weaves through the rose, giving it a certain depth, a luscious quality without the usual sweetness. The combination feels natural, like the two have always belonged together, the fig adding a touch of warmth and ripeness to the floral freshness.Together, they create a fragrance that feels both green and floral, soft and grounded. Captivating in its contrast-filled harmony, warm yet cool, sweet but not sugary, but both with a feminine depth that unfolds slowly, revealing more with each wear.

This is my bedtime fragrance. I found during the day in winter it lasted 2 hours or less but its SUCH a gorgeous fragrance I started wearing it at-home in the evenings and lasted into bedtime so now its my bedtime routine fraf. Its very fresh yet comforting and the sillage is low to moderate so I am not disturbing my SO in bed at all by wearing it and it doesn't wake me up with being "too much". Its fresh without being citrus. Its fruity and floral without being sweet. It's woody without being harsh. Its so beautifully blended I can hardly tell where one note ends and the other begins. This was essentially a blind buy for me because the sample I got arrived after I had ordered a full bottle on sale. It was probably the only blind buy that exceeded my expectations and then kept fulfilling it. It's a scent that just makes me happy and relaxed and I know my mood will improve just by wearing it. I usually like intense and long lasting fragrances but this one just ticks off some boxes I didn't knew I wanted! It reminds me of being somewhere as a kid in the early summer where you are with someone who just lets you exist and take in all of mother nature - like how I imagine being with one grandma I didn't get to meet. Sitting on the porch and her baking a berry pie while the warm breeze comes in. And having nowhere else to be. Just...ahh.

[Reviewing from South East Asia] Never smelled a fig before, I don't have any perfume with fig either. I also don't like rose so I don't know why I blind bought this lol. From the pink juice and fragrance notes I expected something very juicy sweet and girly. At first sniff I was taken aback with how green and earthy this was! There's some sort of a green, earthy fruit in here mixed with some other tart fruit with a good dose of florals encompassing all of it. I can sense the rose, but it's paired well with those tart fruits and earthy fig. It's tart but not sour at all, my skin tend to make notes like citrus to turn more sour, but it has that zing to make it refreshing, almost making the mouth water. Good scent for office setting, running errands. Somehow the word "clean" comes to my mind. It reminds me of the sensation of walking out and about after having a good shower, your hair is just washed & styled. Everything feels so airy, fresh and cool (in terms of temperature). It's also a unisex perfume leaning feminine. Most of my perfumes are full on feminine but this one I still like very much. Works well with our weather here, but if I spray it early in the morning, by about 2 in the afternoon, it will be a skin scent. I don't mind topping up, but I wish it projected and lasted more given the price.

Genuinely a delight! ✨🌹🍇🍋💨✨ It opens with sweet greenness and sparkling citrus at first. Then the rose blooms prominently, but with the geranium it makes it very realistic like you've cut the stem of a rose. Makes me feel like the whole rose from petals to thorns and leaves and the stem have all been infused into the bottle. The dry down has a heavy masculine feeling from the vetiver, but l still enjoy it due to the fruity and floral accords still swirling around it. Overall, there is an interesting contrast of brightness and maturity due to the rose and vetiver dry down. I agree with another reviewer saying it’s good for mid to late 20’s looking for their signature scent. It’s for someone looking for something clean and not overwhelming, but unique and enjoyable as a daily scent. EDIT: longevity was poor in my decant (maybe because of atomizer differences), maybe 3-4 hours on skin, 4-6 hours on clothes. Full bottle purchase has a lot more impact and can linger on clothes into the next day. Sillage is moderate, faintly noticeable to someone sitting across me at the table but compliment-getting when sitting next to me.

Loved it, I had to have it, I splurged, and now I'm bored. I have owned this fragrance for about 9 months. Last summer, I fell in love with its crisp, citrusy yet warm fig. But as time progressed, I realized it doesn't last. Perfumes evaporate on me faster than on most people, so I gave it some leeway. But in order to keep the scent on me, I had to re-spray once every hour. As the weather changed and the crisp fall air came in, the fragrance just couldn't keep up with me. Everything, the sillage, the longevity, the notes seemed weaker. I hung onto it through the winter knowing that as the weather warms up, so will my enjoyment of this fragrance. But, now it is spring, and though it is still lovely, there is not enough in this bottle to keep me interested. Eventually, I trade all my favorites away in my Mercari, because I love to keep exploring, and don't like to own anything that I am not passionate about. I'm sure there is someone out there who will appreciate a half bottle.

Elderflower syrup (St Germain) with champagne. It’s very sparkly, and joyful, still classy, this is a New Year’s Eve commercial. A young lady in a black top, black tights and heels with golden sequin skirt, and a red lip who is about to hit town with her girlfriends. It’s festive, this should have been light yellow color rather than purple. The rose I definitely get is soapy rose, which gives the elegant French vibe à la Diptyque. At the same time it’s giving Y2K, it’s the playfulness. It’s bright and uplifting! Seriously considering a bottle, and somehow it’s works also in the winter as a contrast to the cold. It brings a sparkle to otherwise black night. The drydown it becomes a classic soapy rose Update: I bought a sample and realize that the elderflower scent only present on clothes and paper, but not on skin. My skin eats up this fragrance and all I’m left with is tea and rose. Pleasant but nothing special. On clothes it has much more depth

A sophisticated juice built on the contrasting notes of fig/blackcurrants on one side and rose/geranium on the other side. A stand out for me about Lavalliere is that it’s not a sickening sweet, jammy, fruity floral, but has a slightly moderate sweetness. When I smell Lavalliere, I think of good times, warm weather, something elegant but uncomplicated, feminine and pretty in a youthful way. Sadly, for the price, the longevity is disappointing as well as the sillage. Unlike Capeline, Lavalliere is not a strong perfume at first impression, but costs exactly as much, so not that impressive. It’s a very realistic, juicy, overripe fig dominant perfume without excessive amount of sweetness which I find very enticing... I really, really like it!! Would I buy a full bottle at retail price? Probably not, but on a good offer absolutely yes!

As an addition to my review from a while back: This is REALLY good in the heat. I received this from YSL and Influenster to review this winter. I wore it a few times so I could give an accurate review, but I didn't feel like it was the right time of year to wear it. I thought it would make a much better spring fragrance than a winter one. Normally where I am at (Pacific NW) we would have a lot of mid-60's to lower 70's days right about now. Well, it jumped straight from being in the 50's and 60's to mid-80's and even low-90's for the past week or two. Unable to test my spring-time-perfection theory regarding this fragrance I ended up wearing this a few days ago on a 90 degree day, and it was amazing. So fresh, so clean, decent projection but not at all overpowering... This may be my go-to for hotter days this summer.

I was a Baby Doll wearer in the day - but I'd forgotten all about it until I saw people online talking about Baby Doll then the 1990's memories came back to me. I am noob fraghead. :-) I honestly can't remember what it smelled like except that it was sweet and fresh and warm. So if YSL Lavalliere is a new version of YSL BD and smells pretty much the same, I couldn't tell you. But I CAN tell you that I LOVE this scent!! I want to swim in it. I bought a decant travel size and I seriously want the full bottle so I can douse myself in it. It's fresh and inviting. A "what I am wearing smells better than your testers" at the department store perfume counters as I pass by. It smells youthful but not juvenile - no sugar gourmand components - but a carefree countenence that says "hold my wine, let's try it!" ;-) Obsessed.

Wearing on a cool foggy morning on the first day of Spring (meteorological), it’s like a grown up and bougie version of the retro In Love Again. A creamy and milky green fig, with almost fizzy citrus flurries and intense bursts of blackcurrant complete with the tannic bite - greenery is present and a rosey warmth. It’s a very present scent even in cooler temps (low 40sF is cool to me) which I think will be so refreshing yet, present when it heats up. This line for me has been incredibly consistent with solid performing and elegant scents that feel light but truly perform. I have a large decant and this is definitely FB worthy. Unisex with a slight femme lean on my skin. I think would pull differently on a man and smell great.

30M here. I’m absolutely in love with this fragrance. It’s unisex but leans slightly feminine—don’t get me wrong, a man can definitely pull it off, but for me, it works best with a crisp white T-shirt or a button-down. I adore this scent on a woman, but I love it so much I want to wear it myself. It’s such a comforting scent; it reminds me of Musk Therapy but with a fresh, green vibe. For a "freshie," the longevity and sillage are outstanding. It lasts 24 hours on clothes. Even after 9 hours on my skin, I could still catch whiffs of it while moving around. While the imagination starts to fade after about 5 hours, well known as fresh beast. The scent itself is amazing.

Fig syrup and cold air 🍇🌳 Lavalier perfume by ysl is one of the legendary and famous fig perfumes, and is classified among one of the most beautiful fig perfumes that my nose enjoyed 🌿🌳 It starts with a beautiful green Grapes juice and a lot of herbal delicious figs smell, a splendor of citrus fruits and a wonderful pink wooden fruity accord, a flower bomb covered with geranium and white jasmine, under the cover of vetiver, musk and cashmere wood 💐🪻🌸 The fragrance of absolute happiness, the perfume of the shadows of the tree from which fig fruits fall, great and soft performance 🍇 If you like figs, Lavalier perfume is the undisputed best 🫧

I was given a sample of this while purchasing Babycat and it caught me off guard by how much I love it!! It’s juicy and bright and somehow glossy! I feel like this is an elevated version of the bright, juicy, fruity scents that were popular around Y2K era and I mean that in the best possible way. I used to only wear fruity florals as a teen and young woman and it made me realize I have been missing them! It’s youthful and playful in feeling but certainly not immature or overly sweet. This is the first time in years I have immediately loved a new fragrance in the fruity, floral category and I hope someday I can add it to my collection.

This is a very pretty perfume. It starts with figs, fresh, green, and juicy, unmistakable summer morning freshness, and later it turns into something reminding me of elegant women in simple but gorgeous dresses going through high French windows into a yard, covered with flowering bushes, but without overpowering rose smell. This is a perfume I'd gladly buy a full bottle and wear it everywhere I may be close to people, because it gives me a sort of quiet confidence and raised chin, with or without the mansion and an inside rose garden in my possession :D

Effervescent fig balanced by delicate sweet florals. This reminds me of freshly laundered linens and bubbly champagne. The freshness and fruitiness of the fig + currant is so uplifting and sparkly, then the vetiver adds such a clean finish to it all. Signature scent worthy, especially in warmer weather! I am a huge fan of fig scents (Gris Charnel & Debaser), but Lavalliere is in another league. I cant ever imagine not having this in my collection . If my house were on fire, I would grab this just after my dog.

Predominantly blackcurrant buds with their sulfurous side strongly present (and maybe supported by vetiver?). The blackcurrant is smoothed by fig and rose. This combo creates an instant joyful impression, very happy and extraverted. Projection is on the stronger side, which suits the character of the perfume very well. Longevity depends on the circumstances, I sometimes notice a distinct scent 9 to 10 hours in. Was an instant love for me, had to return for a FB full price.

Oh what a beauty Lavallière is!! Floral and fruity with sweet juicy green freshness in the opening, almost sparkling ✨✨✨ I love how Lavallière isn’t too fig-y. Fig, as a note, can go very wrong on my skin but here, it lends a green freshness to the rose and it is absolutely magical ✨ I love the dry down as well. It stays fresh and green, much closer to the skin with a gentle and soft musky-ness. Absolutely beautiful fragrance that I got for a steal!! I am h a p p y 🤍🩷🌹🍇