Libre L'Eau Nue

Yves Saint Laurent Beauté launched Libre L’Eau Nue in 2025. The house presents it as its first alcohol-free fragrance, a skin scent evoking long Mediterranean summers, sunny, radiant, and sensual, which, it says, leaves skin more luminous.

Two years in the making

Anne Flipo and Carlos Benaïm, Libre’s master perfumers at IFF, developed it with the brand’s laboratories. Yves Saint Laurent speaks of two years of work and more than sixty formulas tested to arrive at this new incarnation of Libre.

The two perfumers say they were lucky to compose on an alcohol-free base, which reveals unprecedented olfactory properties, with ingredients that feel hand-picked. They describe a flash of freshness wrapped in a juicy, sensual, sun-soaked note.

An oil-in-water formula

Instead of ethanol, the formula relies on an exclusive oil-in-water emulsion technology, inspired, according to the house, by Moroccan beauty rituals. It is enriched for the first time with a plant extract of orange blossom grown in the Ourika community gardens.

Yves Saint Laurent credits Libre’s emblematic flower, beyond its scent, with a smoothing effect and a glow for the skin. The skin scent is sold in 50 and 90 ml, in the Libre bottle dressed in white.