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Paris Eau de Parfum

Paris Eau de Parfum is the eau de parfum version of the grand rose and violet floral that Yves Saint Laurent launched in 1983, signed by Sophia Grojsman. The house describes it as a powdery floral: violet, bergamot and orange blossom at the top, centifolia rose and iris at the heart, sandalwood, amber and vanilla at the base. Lucie de la Falaise embodied its image.

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Yves Saint Laurent
Perfumer
Gender
Women
Olfactory family
Floral
Secondary families
Powdery Woody
Concentration
Eau de Parfum
EAN
3365440002098 (50 ml) · 3365440002104 (75 ml) · 3365440398009 (125 ml)

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Yves Saint Laurent launched Paris in 1983, a grand rose and violet floral composed by Sophia Grojsman. The house says the couturier wanted to capture his whole city in a fragrance, and attributes these words to him: “I chose your name, because there is nothing more beautiful.”

Sophia Grojsman, quoted by Michael Edwards in Perfume Legends, says she started from an imagined Après L’Ondée, lighter and younger than Guerlain’s. She kept from it the framework of a creamy violet, to which she paired the rose.

Robin, on Now Smell This, reports that Yves Saint Laurent had chosen the name and the color pink before the fragrance even existed. Journalist Lindsy Van Gelder traces the idea of violet to the mauve sky of the blue hour around the Eiffel Tower.

Osmoz sees Paris as the couturier’s tribute to the Parisian women he dressed and to all women in love who receive bouquets of pastel-toned roses, in the city he cherished.

The house still sells the Eau de Parfum in 2026, alongside Paris Eau de Toilette. It presents it as a powdery floral for an elegant, spontaneous woman, in the image of the City of Light, and speaks of an absolute rose.

Olfactory pyramid

  1. Top notesThe first minutes
  2. Heart notesThe heart of the perfume
  3. Base notesWhat lingers

What critics say

Robin, on Now Smell This, loves a grand rose and violet floral, optimistic and deeply marked by the 1980s; Suzanna, on Bois de Jasmin, praises a sumptuous artifice but prefers the eau de toilette, finding the eau de parfum too dense.

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The advertising

Lucie de la Falaise and her roses

Lucie de la Falaise poses for Paris with a large bouquet of pale roses in her arms, the Eiffel Tower blurred behind her.

Lucie de la Falaise, a model for the house of Saint Laurent, is the face of a print campaign for Paris. Suzanna, on Bois de Jasmin, describes her leaning against a wall, an immense bouquet of pale pink roses in her arms.

Everything except the model’s face and the bottle is bathed in a hazy blur, down to the Eiffel Tower in the background, in a city of muted pinks and greens. In 2012, Suzanna saw it as an image some twenty years old that, for her, summed up the whole fragrance.

Robin, on Now Smell This, recalls a commercial in which a woman in a bright pink, broad-shouldered jacket drives toward the capital in a convertible, two boys sitting in the back. She sees it as the perfect reflection of the fragrance’s exuberance.

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