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Grand Parfums Y opens with a moderate to a strong projection of sweet, citrus, fruity, spicy, green, and woody notes. The opening is unique, intense, oily, and delectable. The apple, bergamot, ginger, juniper, and sage are the opening noticeable notes but are not sharp. The bergamot, apple, and ginger create unique accord, fruity sweet, delectable, spicy, and inviting. The sage and juniper berries are close behind; the sage adds a soft peppery, mint-like note, and the juniper berries a fresh, woody, piney, green, and resinous note. The tonka bean and vetiver join to enhance the fragrance with a sweet, and fresh green note but they are not as prominent as the featured notes. The geranium, amberwood, and cedar are support notes, they come up as mostly a fresh woody, and sweet resinous accord. The olibanum adds a smoky projecting touch. The fragrance has no opening to dry down changes, all notes come up as soon as the fragrance is applied. Once Grand Parfums Y has reached its full dry down, it can be summarized as a moderate projection, spicy ginger, sage, juniper berries, apple, bergamot, vetiver, tonka, and woody fragrance with faint floral accords. The fragrance feels bold, casual, comforting, delectable, dense, energizing, fresh, fruity, green, heavy, moderate-quality, imposing, intense, invasive, long-lasting, masculine, modern, piney, playful, rich, sweet, versatile, woody, and pleasant.CATEGORY: Fougere.BATCH REVIEWED: 2020.WOW RATING: 6/10. A good, projecting, sweet, fresh spicy, fruity, woody, and green fragrance.DISLIKE RATING: 2/10. The notes are bold, the fragrance feels oil.UNIQUENESS: 7/10. The notes and resulting scent are relatively unique.MASS APPEAL: 8/10. This is a fragrance that most people will enjoy.PROJECTION: 6/10. Very good, about 6 feet around the wearer.SILLAGE: 6/10. Very good, about 6 feet behind the wearer.APPLICATION: 4 atomizations.LONGEVITY: 7/10. Excellent, about 7 hours, it projects well for over 5 hours.CLONE RATING: 6/10. An OK clone, the original is more intense, sharper and feels does not feel oily as this clone.SEASONS: Winter, spring, summer, fall, colder days, daytime, nighttime, and climate-controlled environments.OCCASIONS: Outdoor gatherings, office, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance.VERSATILITY: 9/10. A versatile fragrance, anytime, any occasion.GENDER: Masculine. The spicy accords create a small tilt to the masculine.AGES: Any.RECOMMENDATION: Grand Parfums Y can be purchased for about $28 (8oz). It is a good clone although it does not have the intensity and sharpness of the original. It is a nice-to-have.BLIND-BUY: Yes.SIMILAR: These are examples of other fragrances in the same genre.• Azzaro Pour Homme Ginger Lover EDT is a very good, mild, spicy ginger, citrus lime, and green vetiver fragrance.• Baldessarini Nautic Spirit is a sweet, passion fruit, mango, and spicy fragrance.• Bleu de Chanel EDP is a fantastic, intense, citrus, woody, spicy, balsamic, and smoky fragrance• Mandarina Duck Black EDT is a very good, mild, delicious, mandarin, and tonka bean fragrance.• Salvatore Ferragamo F Black Pour Homme EDT is a good, fresh, woody, and peppery fragrance.• Versace Dylan Blue EDT is a fantastic, intense, citrus, amber, spicy, and aquatic fragrance.• Versace Eros EDT is an outstanding, mint, apple, ambroxan, and woody fragrance.• Versace Eros Flame EDP is a great, sharp, sour, sweet mandarin orange, and spicy fragrance.• Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision EDT Men is a very good, sweet, green mandarin, green apple, spicy chili pepper, sage, and cardamom fragrance.• Victoria Secret Very Sexy Platinum for Him is OK, very common, a fresh woody, mossy, ozonic, violet leaf, and spicy fragrance• Yves Saint Laurent Y Live EDT is a great, musky aldehyde, spicy ginger, mint, fruity, pineapple, apple, bergamot, smoky incense, green vetiver, and woody fragrance.• Yves Saint Laurent Y EDP is a superb, strong, spicy ginger, sage, juniper berries, apple, bergamot, vetiver, tonka, and woody fragrance• Grand Parfums Y is a good clone of Yves Saint Laurent Y EDP.SUMMARY: A moderate projection, spicy ginger, sage, juniper berries, apple, bergamot, vetiver, tonka, and woody fragrance with faint floral accords. The fragrance feels bold, casual, comforting, delectable, dense, energizing, fresh, fruity, green, heavy, moderate-quality, imposing, intense, invasive, long-lasting, masculine, modern, piney, playful, rich, sour, sweet, versatile, woody, and pleasant.Scent wasn't strong enoughWhat I like about this Y oil is that it lasted longer then any other oil I try.. and this is my only oil fragrance I wear home personal or work.. I get complement from the woman's all day long.. and believe it or not the men too. So that explains how good it smells
