Paris Yves Saint Laurent 1983 Eau de Toilette

Paris (Eau de Toilette) by Yves Saint Laurent

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Paris (Eau de Toilette) (Yves Saint Laurent)

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Paris (Eau de Toilette) is a popular perfume by Yves Saint Laurent for women and was released in 1983. The scent is floral-powdery. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by L'Oréal.

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Perfumer

Sophia Grojsman

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Bergamot Geranium Indian cress Green notes Hyacinth Cassia Mimosa Orange blossom Hawthorn
Heart Notes	Orris root Jasmine Lily Lime blossom Lily of the valley Rose Violet Ylang-ylang
Base Notes	Amber Oakmoss Heliotrope Iris Musk Sandalwood Cedarwood

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Scent

7.9370 Ratings

Longevity

8.1253 Ratings

Sillage

7.5253 Ratings

Bottle

7.4271 Ratings

Value for money

6.919 Ratings

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03/14/2022

8
Scent 3
Longevity 6
Sillage 6
Bottle 4
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Anamandy
45 Reviews

Anamandy

A Trip Back in Time

A dreamy, powder-puff of a rose perfume. A chypre-like rose, with lots of soft violets, sweet mimosa, and powdery iris. Very pretty, and very romantic. In my mind's eye I can envision a beautiful peaches and cream Gibson girl in the 1890s wearing something like this. It definitely has a vintage feel. So, if you love vintages as much as I do, you may enjoy this. One major flaw for me is that the reformulated edt I have a sample of has terrible performance issues. Starts out strong, but within two hours is almost a skin scent. That might not be an issue for you if you love the scent and are willing to reapply several times a day, but it is an issue for me. Though I love the scent and would love to add a full bottle to my collection, I cannot justify a purchase at the prices being asked because of that. I'd run through a bottle in no time. Dang, these damn reformulations!

06/23/2021

Poesiefanny

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Poesiefanny

Helpful Review 16

Pas de problème

Heavy florality envelops the wearer - if she wants to, quite wonderfully. One flirts in it with pleasure with his joie de vivre & himself - but also pulls a fragrance veil of complex seduction will behind him, which is noticed and goutiert by the flâneurs on the boulevard. Spontaneous eye contacts - pas de probleme :-) Thanks to the good humour and opulent coherence of the green-flowered jardin - on velvety moss beds with the little truncated lemon trees around the edges - une femme can definitely experience French savoir vivre with this perfume.... I felt this way especially since I had previously been to the Picasso collection exhibition at the three major state museums - a day allotted for each museum plus an additional two to explore the city stroll-by-stroll. Filled with Parisian esprit, I bought the eponymous YSL jar at home tout suit, in order to master my grief over the postponable return.
It was winter, the city of love eight hours away by train ... but thanks to Yves' creation, the attitude I had in me, on me & around me was extended by the life of a bottle: Merci, Maitre - your effort was worth it!

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01/04/2021

8
Scent 8
Longevity 8
Sillage 8
Bottle 6
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Tradescantia

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Tradescantia

Very helpful Review 11

Fresh sweet flower veil

This lovely floral and fresh in the attack eau de toilette is romantic, but does not fall into the girly, as is the case with some fragrances from Chloé.
Chloé fragrances are really not wrong, but they do not suit me.

To begin with, I particularly like Paris. The green notes I can not specify, but they add the necessary freshness. So the fragrance is wearable at any time. Although lilac and blue rain are not listed, these plants came directly to my mind. Somehow, they also fit the mood of the fragrance. Overall, I find it difficult to identify individual notes here. For me, it just creates a strong, dense yet delicate floral haze. The scent is a true bouquet of flowers, with a subtle soapy note. Without it, it would probably become too sweet. For a short time, it has something of freshly washed laundry fluttering through the wind in the middle of a flower garden. This note is not directly comparable to White Linen. It lacks the earthiness that contrasts in White Linen, yet there is a parallel. Both fragrances come from Sophia Grojsman.

I can recognize mainly rose, hyacinth, ylang-ylang and jasmine. Rose scents so often grab me in a weird way, sometimes I chase them for whatever reason. This one is not at all a typical representative of this category because of its diversity.

Yves Saint Laurent has always launched unusual fragrances and was considered a rebel within the fashion world; among other things, because of the invention of "Le Smoking": the tuxedo for ladies. Rive Gauche fits much better to this garment, which embodied the emancipation of women in the 60s. Paris is more gently rebellious. To my mind, it works best in the summer. The fresh green notes keep it from being too heavy. It is not at all stuffy in my opinion. A pleasant companion for almost all situations. One is never really badly dressed with it. At high temperatures it has the best projection. This leaves the environment with restrained dosage but still enough air to breathe.

The base is not very spectacular. I personally could have done without the clear sweetness in the base, but it also does not hurt the fragrance.

The 30 ml bottle is what I consider good design. It is triangular and has a nice cut that forms a geometric and symmetrical pattern. The glass feels valuable and the bottle is functional, it can even be stored well in a rather small sized handbag because of the shape and the lid fits tightly. You'd think that would be a given. But it isn't. The stopper is cylindrical, unlike the bottle. It comes in black and coral colors. Really aesthetic and practical.
Have fun testing and wearing.

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09/17/2020

9.5
Scent 10
Longevity 8
Sillage 6
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Lilue

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Lilue

Helpful Review 17

Basic Note Love

This fragrance is love, warmth, home, comfort. The fragrance is roots and wings.
This fragrance is to buy it and put it in the closet when you are away from home and mom is missing.
The fragrance not only smells of rose, it also smells of its leaves and the soil from which it grows. It even smells a little bit like her thorns.
I can't smell any nuances from this perfume at all, my perception is far too much affected by memories, emotions, an entire childhood. No matter how good it may smell to me, I will never be able to wear it myself and I know and fear that the day will come when the sight of this bottle and a passing breeze from a lady in her prime, chicly dressed, round face, friendly smile, but not mum will cause me an unbelievable pain, the fear of which I already feel every now and then on days close to the water when mum wears it

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01/21/2019

8
Scent 8
Longevity 6
Sillage 6
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StellaDiverF
213 Reviews

StellaDiverF

Retro Elegance

Paris EDT opens slightly sharp. It's ozonic, aldehydic and soapy. It then gradually morphs into a smooth powdery flower bouquet. Rose, hiacynth, violet, mimosa, lily of the valley, jasmine and other flowers interlock with one another. I can hardly pick either one out of the bouquet. It has a floral-type of sweetness, and it smells perfume-y. It doesn't smell unpleasantly synthetic, but it certainly doesn't aim to smell like real flowers. It's an artifice, cleverly structrued and well refined. Glamourous as it is, Paris EDT is surprisingly airy to my nose. I didn't find myself wearing a heavy velvet coat. Instead, it wears like a gauzy aura gently hovering around me. I doubt if the EDP has the same texture, though.

However, I do find that Paris is from an era other than our current one. Paris is like some timeless icons such as Audrey Hepburn : people admire their elegance and beauty but one does not necessarily wear exactly the same way as they do in their times. I admire and respect them as an inspiration. I'd occasionally treat myself with a few spritzes of Paris EDT to be embraced by its grace.

By the way, Paris EDT has a moderate sillage on me even with a few spritzes, but it lasts a good 12 hours and survives a shower.

07/25/2018

5
Scent 8
Longevity 8
Sillage 9
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Pinkdawn

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Pinkdawn

Helpful Review 19

The musty sweetness of withered roses on mourning wreaths

Paris from YSL is a fragrance that always asks me a question: What does the French capital - and of course the French women in particular - have to do with this perfume by Yves Saint Laurent?
I know Paris. Not very good. The way you get to know the city as a guest. I visited Paris in August, the month in which the locals, if they can afford it, flee the metropolis and leave it to the tourists.
After all. In the parks and gardens it bloomed - in the most beautiful colours of summer. There were roses, too. The Jardin du Luxembourg, the Tuileries, the Jardin Anne-Frank and above all the Roseraie du Parc de Bagatelle.
I imagine that Yves Saint Laurent went for a walk there in the early 1980s and was inspired to create his perfume by the lush Damascene roses, tea roses or pale pink bourbon roses that once bloomed in Josephine's Malmaison That's a naive notion, of course. The perfumer of the fragrance is the Russian Sophia Grojsman, who created fragrances like Eternity, Beautiful and Trésor. But maybe she sat in the rose gardens of Paris and enjoyed her scents.
Paris is known as "the scent of roses". That was also the reason why I was interested in this eau de toilette. I love the smell of roses.
The characteristic bottle made of cut glass with its black and pink cap immediately appealed to me The fragrance starts very sweet immediately after spraying on, almost too sweet for me. I don't notice much of the citric bergamot. Green notes, on the other hand, are clearly present at the beginning. Flowers also mix in very soon. The rose is present from the beginning and remains so. In the heart note, the fragrance begins to become slightly powdery. The cheerful sounds of green and bergamot have now completely disappeared. The EdT doesn't offer any freshness anymore, only a heavy, almost honey-like sweetness, which is reinforced by sandalwood. In addition, heavyweights such as amber and musk are also driven up to the point of waving.
Paris - I mean perfume - convinced me at the time, which I can no longer understand today. I bought the Eau de Toilette Spray and liked to use it during summer time.
YSL calls the fragrance seductive. It should stand for elegant, cheerful ladies with exquisite taste. The perfume is described as romantic, very feminine and delicate.
There are of course reasons why I still have a half-filled bottle of it. Somehow I liked the scent a lot more in the old days. Today I find it too sweet, too heavy - even as an eau de toilette - and also, yes, somehow old-fashioned.
It's the scent experience you might have when you find an old chest in the attic, open it and find the yellowed bridal veil of your great-great-grandmother in it, in which a perfume from the old days has settled.
I would like the roses to smell fresher and the whole fragrance to be lighter, more sparkling and not so dark and austere. But in fact he has a velvety heaviness that is almost melancholic for me. I don't notice the promised cheerfulness. At best, I can imagine that an attractive, well-groomed lady in black with red lacquered fingernails would wear him to her husband's funeral.
I like powdery scents. But here I encounter dusty pathos rather than a cheerful rose powder scent.
Today I can no longer see what I once liked about this fragrance. At the moment I can't identify with him and apart from funerals I would hardly know an occasion where I would wear him.
Romantic? No. Seductive? Especially not. Feminine? At best, if they're older ladies. You need a certain personality to be able to wear this dominant fragrance at least in the evening without being crushed by it. Sillage and durability are here for an eau de toilette almost incredibly intense!
In my opinion, however, this heavy-blooded scent has nothing to do with the lively cosmopolitan city on the Seine, the city of love and artists. She would have deserved a better or more fitting creation. Something light, floral, with charm and esprit, refined, but graceful and sweet.
But Paris, the scent, has none of this at all.
In Vienna, we have a White Woman who's been bypassing the Hofburg. Supposedly it is about Kunigunde, the unhappy widow Premysil Ottokar II, king of Bohemia, who was defeated and fell in 1278 in the battle on the Marchfeld by Rudolf I of Habsburg. Rudolf then exhibited the corpse of the unlucky king in Vienna for 30 weeks.
The queen's restless spirit is not welcome. Why don't you announce her appearance as a certain calamity? Fortunately, I've never met her before. Should I ever, however, I am sure to recognize her perfume immediately: this morbid scent of withered roses on mourning wreaths, this mouldy, heavy sweetness ..

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05/26/2018

8
Scent 8
Longevity 8
Sillage 8
Bottle

Jazzy76
320 Reviews

Jazzy76

Hymne à la rose

This iconic perfume could be compared to the Edith piaf's song "Hymne à l'amour" .
This rich and well composed flowery fragrance is a hymne to love and mainly to the symbol of love: the rose.
The accord is complex, but the main actress is the classic, powerful rose. This scent represents perfectly the most romantic face of Paris.
I had a 30ml bottle of this perfume as a gift from a friend many years ago and I was maybe too Young to wear and appreciate this "mature" and very feminine fragrance. Nowadays I love it so much and I'd like to own it, but the price is high! Paris, je t'aime!

01/05/2016

7
Scent 10
Longevity 10
Sillage 5
Bottle

DorothyGrace
79 Reviews

DorothyGrace

From the '80s - Still going strong

Paris – YSL

Digging around in my perfume cupboard I came across a 7.5 ml miniature of Paris Eau de Toilette from the early 1980's. I have about 1/4 left.

The strength of this EDT is nothing short of phenomenal; no wonder after all this time I still have a 1/4 bottle remaining - it really does only need a little dab and lasts 12 hours plus.

A very rich violet and rose combo (powdery, thick and sweet) with lashings of velvety musk dominates on my skin for several hours and as such it is a little bit of a one trick pony. Eventually it becomes a little less sweet and powdery with a nod from geranium and undercurrent of amber.

What a beautiful picture the pyramid of notes makes but they are only there in a supporting role for me as Paris is almost linear on my skin.

For me violet dominates the rose and Paris reminds me very much of those cachous sweets (adored these - where can they be bought nowadays?) in particular the Parma Violet ones.

I wonder what the new formulation is like.

Eau de Toilette miniature circa 1980s

12/28/2012

Krmarich
24 Reviews

Krmarich

Very helpful Review 7

I Love Paris!!!

I discovered an original black 1.6oz EDT box circa 1983 on e-bay. It is quite different from the familiar formula on todays market. This was truely the biggest and best rose perfume ever made. In its time, I only detected it from afar. Indeed by 1985, it was everywhere. The traffic jam of perfume from that era shall never be forgotten or matched.

Paris however was different. Its pays tribute to Apres l'Ondee and was like Nahema containing a profusion of rose damascenones so boldly. This is YSL running along side Guerlain equally. It is Sophia Grojsman's magnum opus. It is the definitive French rose perfume. Its production cost had to be astronomical at the time and it gradually weakend to the current formula.

This original bottle relys little on the supporting cast of violet and mimosa. The rose dominates the composition for hours and then the natural, rich sandalwood and oakmoss hold it up even further. They are no longer in the pink box.

This isnt sexy like Opium, bold like Rive Gauche or mysterious like Y. As great as they are, Paris explores love. This is the gentle, blushing, innocent love that happens once in a lifetime. One drop on your pulse is profound. It gets under your skin and into your heart. Its mood enhancing and hypnotic. I can almost taste the rose.

Paris is a timeless 20th century giant that was really only around for about 5 year in its pure strength. No wonder it was on display in the Louvre! It was a work of art. Often imitated, even by YSL itself, but never as great as those original bottles. Time is passing-get a bottle today before its too late!

08/02/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Very helpful Review 4

80s violet rose

One of the few perfumes that is 80’s in style, size and exuberance but can still be worn today without irony. It’s a cartoon-like rose with candied violet. A bit shrieky up top, but fortunately by the heartnotes the rose grows citric and astringent, lending a sweet/tart quality to the accord. Paris has a crystalline quality similar to Guerlain’s Nahema, but is far less dense and juicy than Nahema. Paris gains a woody, musky quality in drydown, but remains true to the artifice and exaggeration of its era and is proudly an 80’s Huge Floral.

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