Vinyle

Yves Saint Laurent Vinyle EDP opens with a moderate projection of very sweet, resinous, yellow floral, and spicy notes. The opening is unique, refined, elegant, intense, mature, and inviting. The resins, myrrh, and immortelle are the opening most noticeable notes. The resins are a delicious and inviting, sweet, dense, ambery, and vanilla-like note. The myrrh is also very resinous, sweet, and soft spicy. The anise and pink pepper are a pinch of a spicy touch that balances the balsamic accords. The immortelle is a yellow complex floral note, in this fragrance, the immortelle is a warm, sweet, caramel, fruity, and honey note. As the fragrance moves towards its dry down, the vanilla will develop adding its sweet, cozy, and delectable accord, the vanilla becomes more prominent as the fragrance dries up. The bergamot is a faint and short-lived touch during the opening. The fragrance is relatively linear, the opening favors the resins, myrrh, immortelle, and spices, at this point the fragrance feels moist, resinous, sweet, and honeyed; towards the dry down and after the vanilla has joined, the fragrance becomes dry, resinous, sweet, honey, and vanilla. Once Yves Saint Laurent Vinyle EDP has reached its full dry down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, balsamic sweet, resins, myrrh, vanilla, yellow floral immortelle, spicy anise, and pink pepper fragrance. The fragrance feels ambery, appetizing, casual, comforting, cozy, delectable, delicious, dense, dry, elegant, exotic, expensive, exquisite, yellow floral, gentle, heavy, high-quality, intimate, inviting, mature, mysterious, natural, nicely-blended, oriental, resinous, rare, refined, relaxing, rich, romantic, seductive, sophisticated, special, sweet, syrupy, unique, unisex, warm, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2021. WOW RATING: 10/10. An impressive, natural, and exquisite fragrance evocative of black vinyl long play records with a sweet resinous touch. DISLIKE RATING: 1/10. The fragrance is very sweet. UNIQUENESS: 10/10. An impressive combination of notes, a collector-unique fragrance. MASS APPEAL: 9/10. This is a fragrance that most people will enjoy. PROJECTION: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet around the wearer. SILLAGE: 4/10. Moderate, about 4 feet behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 4 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 5/10. Good, about 5 hours, it projects well for over 4 hours. SEASONS: Winter, fall, colder days, daytime, nighttime, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 7/10. A fantastic fragrance for mild or cold weather. GENDER: Unisex. The sweet resinous notes are unisex. AGES: 25 and above. RECOMMENDATION: Yves Saint Laurent Vinyle EDP can be purchase retail for about $250. It is one of the most unique scents, a collector’s worthy, and very inviting fragrance, evocative of old long play vinyl records with a sweet resinous touch. This is a great buy. BLIND-BUY: No, sample it first. SIMILAR: These are examples of other fragrances in the same genre. • Dior Ambre Nuit is a good, mild, sweet, resinous amber, soft rose, and spicy peppery fragrance. • Issey Miyake Noir Ambre is a great amber fragrance. • Mancera Amber Fever is a good, mild, resinous amber, sweet caramel, whiskey, powdery musk, and woody fragrance. • Montale Blue Amber is a fantastic, strong projection, amber, vanilla, spicy, and floral fragrance. • Yves Saint Laurent Vinyle EDP is a superb, balsamic sweet, resins, myrrh, vanilla, yellow floral immortelle, spicy anise, and pink pepper fragrance • Francis Kurkdjian Grand Soir EDP is a superb, very sweet, amber, vanilla, and tonka fragrance. SUMMARY: A moderate projection, balsamic sweet, resins, myrrh, vanilla, yellow floral immortelle, spicy anise, and pink pepper fragrance. The fragrance feels ambery, appetizing, casual, comforting, cozy, delectable, delicious, dense, dry, elegant, exotic, expensive, exquisite, yellow floral, gentle, heavy, high-quality, intimate, inviting, mature, mysterious, natural, nicely-blended, oriental, resinous, rare, refined, relaxing, rich, romantic, seductive, sophisticated, special, sweet, syrupy, unique, unisex, warm, and very pleasant.

I am a big massive Yves Saint Laurent fan from my early days as a child. I remember all his interviews on French TV and the glimps of his defiles in teh 80s with "chatoyantes colours" reminiscing of his past in french maghreb. When I started to smoke I even had the fantasy to buy YSL cigarettes (even though they tasted quite disgusting compared others). Over the yeasrs I have had a lot of fragrances from YSL. Kouros in its 80s glory (what a joy not to like), Jazz a bit later ad all the opium all the way to M7 and Y. So naturally when I came across this one I thought what not to like. So I forked the money and bought a bottle. When it arrived I really like the presentation box it came in and the very sober bottle with magnetic cap. The trouble started when I sprayed it at first. Instantly it reminded me of a fragrance back in the 80s which was very populat in summer days. I instantly loved this fragrance so much so that I had to buy a second one as I noticed that it was being discontinued. The vanilla is omnipresent. From start to dry down. It is sweet but not too sweet. Strong but not over powering. Not on your face. It is elegant and has a multitude of enjoyable layers as it dries down. It smells very nice on skin and seems to last forever on clothes. Even after a few days. At work I reveiced so many positive feedback that to of my colleague have bought a bottle. Verdict. A very pleasant and enjoyable fragrance. Very long lasting on clothes a bit less on skin. 8 out of 10 at least! Thank you once again YSL!

Before I bought this, I was skeptical because of its note profile. I don’t believe in vanillic scents until I met Tobacco Vanille. Then I came across this one and it read herbal. How could immortelle, a curry-ish, greenish and savory odor make-up vinyl? Straight up it blasts you with something peppery and with a somewhat leather undertone without the tannic smokiness. Then comes the herbal accord and the vanilla. It’s really well-done and it melds like it’s your second skin. I get wafts until the 4th hour but it’s not overwhelming. People can smell you and they would compliment you for this. Make no mistake, the notes might seem heavy but it’s the most demure sillage I’ve ever had. It’s not weak plus there’s a beautiful balsamic quality to it. Perhaps this is why it sticks to clothes effortlessly without smelling perfumey. When I visit Vinyle’s page on Fragrantica, I’ve read it being compared to how Guerlain makes artisanal vanilla fragrances and even though I haven’t smelled Spiriteuese Double Vanille, Iris Ganache or Angelique Noire, I believe this is on the same level.

This line reminds me of that Guerlain line where they all have the custard, vanilla base (double vanille, Tonka imperiale...etc) and this stuff is heavy in its vanilla element. However another thing it’s shares with the Guerlains is undeniable quality and excellence and a real feeling that it’s evoking something new. Vinyle truly is like nothing else I’ve ever tried and for that alone should be applauded. It’s a deeply, deeply resinous fragrance which has the smoothness of myrrh and vanilla but with an unknown and even slightly perplexing element which definitely evokes vinyl. Now I have to say records are the only thing I own more of than fragrances and both new or old I can’t say this smells like them. Perhaps a little but I get more of a sexy, vinyl catsuit vibe from it. Again I don’t know if this is imagined but some synthetic, plasticy element shoved in the mix with very organic resin and sweet creamy vanilla makes this fragrance complete. Perfect some might say...Well me anyway I kinda want this.

Oh. My. Goodness. Where to start? This is so beautiful and unexpectedly delicious. Why? Because on my skin, this pulls vanilla and oh my goodness, what a delightful vanilla!! Not the cheap sugary kind of vanilla, no. This is a vanilla for grown ups and it smells sophisticated and slightly naughty. A tinge spicy, a tinge fresh but mostly, it smells like the air in a boudoir. The curtains are heavy and shut the early morning light off. The room has just been left by its occupants and the lingering scents of naked skin, spice and smoke remain... Absolutely beautiful, mysterious and delightfully intriguing, I MUST get a full bottle of this love potion!! 🖤🔥🖤🔥 PS: I am searching for a full bottle of Vinyle. If anyone has one for sale, will you dm me? Thank you🖤🖤