YSL · 2024

Libre Flowers & Flames

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Creamy, sun-warmed coconut-palm flower and a radiant lily over orange blossom and lavender, settling onto rich vanilla.

The drawn Libre Flowers & Flames bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Libre Flowers & Flames’s scent picture, a draft: coconut palm flower, lily, orange blossom, lavender, vanilla, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Libre Flowers & Flames, top notes: Lavender

Heartas it settles

Libre Flowers & Flames, heart: Coconut palm flower, Lily, Orange blossom, Cinnamal (cinnamon)

Dry-downwhat stays

Libre Flowers & Flames, dry-down: Vanilla, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

13 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender6 florals1 sweet2 spices1 powder

10 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

APOMMaison Francis Kurkdjian · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), lavender and vanilla$275 for 70 ml · about twice Libre Flowers & Flames’s $185
Golden DecadeZara · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), lavender and vanilla$39.90 for 80 ml · about a quarter of Libre Flowers & Flames’s $185
LeonieMaison Alhambra · shares bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), lavender and vanilla$24 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Libre Flowers & Flames’s $185
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