The Paris fragrance by YSL. Paris, city of love. Paris, city of light. Paris, place of culture. Paris, the place so dear to Yves Saint-Laurent. He spent his life there and it was his attachment to this city that gave birth to several of his creations.
Each Yves Saint-Laurent fragrance, like each of his collections, offers a particular universe, ideally in keeping with the tastes of the great couturier, a lover of art, of fashion of course, but also of his city, Paris. Wanting to offer a fragrance that would put Paris in a bottle, Yves Saint-Laurent issued a major challenge to the greatest perfumers of the early 1980s. It was the very young nose Sophia Grojsman, with her delicately floral composition, who won the master’s favor, and Paris was born.
Paris captured in a precious bottle of perfume thanks to the talented Sophia Grojsman
Yves Saint-Laurent created haute-couture outfits as well as fragrances in the image of his passions, his love-at-first-sights, and his desires. After the resounding success of Opium in 1977 and the splendid Kouros, the master wanted to devote a fragrance to his favorite city, Paris, of course! To do this, he wanted to achieve a composition that would showcase the city’s most beautiful scents while highlighting the legendary elegance of the most beautiful Parisian women, whom he delighted in dressing, with a rose note.
Despite this very clear request, Yves Saint-Laurent nevertheless rejected a great number of proposals submitted to him by great perfume creators. The rose note seemed to put off the creators, who saw in this rose only the timid reflection of retro scents. Paris would go much further than that with the fragrant composition of the very young apprentice Sophia Grojsman, and the master was won over.
This fragrance highlights in its composition all the qualities one can recognize in Parisian women: softness, romance, elegance, and glamour. Marie-Claire on Paris, Yves Saint-Laurent.
With Paris, Sophia Grojsman thus enters fine perfumery at lightning speed. Her delicate accords of rose and violet hit the mark alongside beautiful woody sensualities. Paris is a success and propels the new era of delicate, romantic fragrances into stardom, in contrast to opulent fragrances.
Old roses for a chic femininity, Paris by Yves Saint-Laurent
The roses I see are not those pretty, common, and meager varieties, but rather the old plump Roses, like those in the exotic gardens of Marrakech, roses that become like splendid cabbages as they bloom, only to die. Words of Yves Saint-Laurent on Paris, reported by Fragrance Foundation.
Yves Saint-Laurent did not want to settle, for Paris, for the usual rose scents found in women’s fragrances. He wanted opulent, fragrant, powerful roses; Sophia Grojsman therefore chose a beautiful May rose to feature at the heart of Paris alongside a delicate, powdery, and delightfully vintage violet.
Nevertheless, these scents of eternal femininity, somewhat fallen out of fashion, are accompanied by brilliant touches of modernity in the top notes, with dynamic geranium and bergamot, or even in the depths, with warm amber-woody accords.
The magic of Paris lies in offering women an olfactory picture blending scents of the past, the present, and even the future. Sophia Grojsman’s boldness proved to be the creator of a great bestseller for Yves Saint-Laurent.