Yves Saint Laurent: Paris, Eau de Toilette

Ooooo! LA LA! I just adore the perfumes of Yves Saint Laurent. There are so many I like from this one maker. All very distinctive too. His 'Y' is the most beautiful fragrance, as is Rive Gauche, Baby Doll and many others. Paris is one of my firm favourites, and one of the first I have owned of his. It comes in a salmon pink, gold, and black square box. Quite chunky, like the perfume. The bottle is dimpled, clear glass, quite squat and round, like a squashed ball, and It has a black and pink chubby top to it. With Yves Saint Laurent written in gold lettering to the front of the bottle. There is nothing really feminine, or ...  Read the complete review

This perfume was first given to me as a gift.I had never seen it before and was dubious,as the person giving it to me was 30 years older than me and said it was her favourite.Lucky for me,the lady in question has good taste. It smelt divine.It lasts all day,and you can smell it on your clothes the day after but funnily it is at the same time,not overpowering. The typical bottle is shaped like a diamond with a pink and black bottle top.This is its recognisable characteristic.As soon as you see the bottle ,if it be across the shop,you will know it is YSL Paris. Paris contains the scents of A seductive fragrance for an elegant, joyful and refined ...  Read the complete review

This has been my favourite perfume all my life. I first discovered it the year it came out. I was still at school and smelt it with some friends in a department store. I was bowled over by it. Of course then I couldn't afford it, but later when I was working, I bought some. As the previous reviewer described very accurately, it is innocent, "light" but durable. It's flowery but not a cloying heavy sweet flowery. But DEFINITELY a feminine perfume - none of this "unisex" stuff for me, thanks! Honestly, my heart did a little leap when i first smelt it. Smell is one of our most powerful senses and can evokes memories of long ago. ...  Read the complete review

Bought for me by my daughter ,but it doesn't really do the business. Have worn it for a bit now so I should have grown to love it, I like it but thats all.Its a soft soapy perfume,very pleasant in an understated way,and its feminine,but I wanted a perfume that would make me feel good, sexy even,make me feel an attractive strongly individual person who could conquer the world,make me feel good. Instead I feel I've taken a mildly pleasant bubble bath.Remember "Havoc", Yardleys "Laughter", or "L'Heure apres Midi"by Worth, for example,all of these I really loved, but I feel a bit at sea now.It comes in a vaguely cut glass looking bottle with a ...  Read the complete review

I find it really difficult to find a perfume. When ever I test perfume and find a fragrance that I like I find that once I put it on my wrist it changes and just smells awful. The same perfume can smell lovely on my daughter but awful on me. Not so with Yves Saint Laurent: Paris. I have been using it for a number of years now and it is the only perfume that I have found that retains the same smell when I am wearing it as it does in the bottle. When I am wearing it people will complement me on the fragrance and ask what I am wearing. It has become my signature perfume. I have tried many other fragrances but I still keep coming back to this particular one. This ...  Read the complete review