Paris is the eau de toilette that Yves Saint Laurent launched in 1983, composed by Sophia Grojsman. It pairs a fruity, almost jammy rose with a creamy violet; the couturier is said to have chosen the fragrance’s name and its pink color before the formula even existed. Paris is now available as an eau de toilette and an eau de parfum.
Robin, on Now Smell This in 2008, and Victoria, on Bois de Jasmin in 2012, praise a romantic, jammy rose softened by violet; Robin nonetheless finds that Paris sprayed too generously quickly becomes too much Paris.
What critics say
Pastels in Technicolor
Robin, on Now Smell This on June 2, 2008, describes a fruity, bright and expansive opening, and a heart of jammy roses softened by Sophia Grojsman’s creamy violet. For her, Paris speaks in pastels, but in Technicolor pastels.
She finds it extremely feminine, almost ironically so, and entirely romantic, with nothing saccharine about it. She says she adored it, while feeling that Paris sprayed now becomes too much Paris, at least for her.
A pink daydream
Victoria, on Bois de Jasmin in September 2012, sees Paris as an ebullient and romantic daydream, in which a fruity, jammy and abstract rose interlocks with violets that smell like candied violets.
She connects Paris to an old advertisement from the house, a city of roses and muted greens, very French, which in her view sums up the essence of the fragrance, and says she has worn the eau de toilette for years.
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