L'Homme
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L'Homme(2006)

Yves Saint Laurent · Jacques Cavallier Belletrud · Woody

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Created by Jacques Cavallier Belletrud for Yves Saint Laurent, L'Homme opens on bergamot, ginger, and basil, moves through a heart of violet leaf, cedar, and tea, and closes on vetiver, vanilla, and tonka bean, offering a refined, understated masculine composition that became one of Saint Laurent's most enduring 21st-century men's fragrances.

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Did you know? This scent's violet note exists because of ionone, synthesized in 1893 to replace violet-flower oil — once one of the most expensive materials in perfumery. Read the full story →
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Launched
2006
Family
Woody

L'Homme is a fragrance from Yves Saint Laurent, released in 2006 and composed by Jacques Cavallier Belletrud. It sits in the Woody family. It opens with Bergamot, Ginger, and Basil, moves into a heart of Violet Leaf, Cedarwood, and Tea, and settles into a base of Vetiver, Vanilla, and Tonka Bean.

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Top notes
BergamotGingerBasil
Heart notes
Violet LeafCedarwoodTea
Base notes
VetiverVanillaTonka Bean
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