Y Eau de Toilette

My first fragrance, you don't ever forget your first bottle. I got in in 7th grade at a Macy's after smelling a bunch of things and this was the one. It was sharp, clean, and airy. I abused this in middle school and high school, it was an absolute compliment magnet, one girl chased me around the halls because she wanted to know what I was wearing. This is something I would recommend to beginners, a very clean inoffensive freshie that is perfect for everyday wear. The opening is airy and citrusy and it becomes very aromatic and musky in its base. This is honestly a very good fragrance and pretty unique in the designer market. I might be heavily biased in this review but this is just amazing to me and incredibly nostalgic the opening just reminds me of early mornings getting ready for school. My first fragrance and a very special fragrance to me.

Fantastic. this fragrance is very well balanced and smooth for what it is. Bright, radiant, clean, fresh, slightly sweet, but also aromatic and fresh spicy. Think of something like The One EDP in terms of how all the notes seamlessly harmonize with one another, and no specific notes are overpowering or jarring. Performance is better than people give it credit for, 6 sprays around the neck / back of my shirt gets above average projection for 1-2 hours easy, after it dries down it definitely does not project as much however its still there for 6-7 hours. This and the EDP are my favorite in the line. EDP richer, sweeter, with 2x the performance , while this EDT is slightly fresher, cleaner, and much easier wear as sometimes the EDP can just be too damn strong. Overall for me, this is a solid 8.5/10

I had this in college as a sample and it was my favorite cologne before I knew about them, this and a splash version of Polo red EDT. I love this scent profile very masculine. And the girls loved it on my nights out. Fast forward to career man with some money $$, when I got into colognes as a sort of hobby it sparked my desire for YSL therefore, the first fragrance I got was Y but not the EDT. It was the EDP and for good reason later I found the EDT secondhand and all the improvements they made from the EDT to the EDP is exactly why they stop making the EDT. It just seems like a lesser version to me where the EDP shines is it’s Woody playful but sweet fruity but long lasting versatile blue EDT just seem to lack. It’s not a bad fragrance.

This fragrance single handedly made me a fragrance collector. Prior, I would rotate between 5 fragrances (mostly the Polo line, Versace pour homme and CH men). I remember smelling this in 2017 and I really enjoyed it, but I ended up purchasing YSL L'homme Ultime that day. The sales rep gave me a sample and I became obsessed with this fragrance, but didn't buy it because I was a broke college student with a minimum wage job at that time. Fast forward to 2020, I went down the rabbit hole of seeking reviews of this fragrance and other fragrances. I ended up buying the EDP because reviewers said it was a better version of the EDT, but I do not agree and it was very cloying.

Speaking specifically of the 2017 version here as it is my favorite formulation and this is the page for it. How this is rated below a 4 is beyond me. This is as safe clean and crisp as it gets for a men’s fragrance. It’s slightly sweet, smooth and bright but also carry’s a lot of depth. Very inoffensive and extremely appealing fragrance here. The 2022 formulation is close to this but I think with the added notes this one has it’s just better overall personally. Glad to have a bottle before it was reformulated.