Olfactionary
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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.
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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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