Cinéma reveals the star within Although Yves Saint-Laurent's ready-to-wear lines contributed to the emancipation of women, its perfumes contributed to making them more beautiful.
After paying tribute to the couture master's favorite music with Jazz, the Yves Saint-Laurent house wanted to create a fragrance in honor of its founder's great love for cinema. Jacques Cavallier composed for this lovely Cinéma an ode to radiant femininity, which literally bursts into the spotlight. Cinéma is seen, felt and lived with passion, just as a good film makes us thrill.
Cinéma, or Jacques Cavallier's declaration of love to women for Yves Saint-Laurent
Jacques Cavallier is a perfumer who composed his first successes in the 80s with original creations such as L'Eau d'Issey, Le Feu d'Issey or indeed the famous Opium. The perfumer loves what shines, what sparkles and what astonishes, and Cinéma would be precisely one of those.
Moreover, in the year Cinéma was released, 2004, he received the highly coveted François Coty International Perfume Award. Because this sacred monster of perfumery is a creative mind, a jack-of-all-trades who above all loves to innovate by using the finest natural raw materials. He considers that his type of creation in perfumery is a perfumery of feeling, which allows one to be more genuine. One must be generous, there is life, there is terroir. I am in the pleasure of creating, said Jacques Cavallier.
In order to give the best of his happiness to the creation of a perfume, Jacques Cavallier created for Cinéma a radiant fragrance with a luminosity as if lit by a thousand lights on the set of a great film shoot. With Cinéma, every woman is lit up with a star's glow, glamorous to the utmost and above all ultra feminine.
A perfume of luminous flowers and radiant freshness: Cinéma
Cinéma does not play at being a perfumery starlet, far from it—it is certainly the preserve of the greatest ladies of the seventh art, so precious and rare are its accords. It in fact presents the woman it dresses from three different angles: first the radiant facet, then the very feminine and glamorous facet, and finally the sensual facet.
Cinéma invites women to illuminate their joy of living and their fiery temperament with top accords of Corsican clementine accompanied by a soft powdery makeup of almond blossom, just before stepping into the light of the camera. Then the action begins, and the heart lights up with the beauties of peony, amaryllis and sambac jasmine. One need only look at the Cinéma woman to be utterly won over by these darker charms that appear on screen in depths of benzoin, ambergris, white musk and vanilla.
Its scent: a flamboyant bouquet of glamour and femininity that shimmers in gold and light. A radiant perfume for a divine woman, who moves through life as if under the spotlight, elegant and self-assured. In her wake, the flashbulbs crackle… Yves Saint-Laurent on Cinéma.