YSL pour Homme (1971)
by Yves Saint Laurent

Do you like lemonade? This stuff is pretty nice and fresh.....Lemons, but good ones.
YSL pour homme is not very original, maybe common, but very well made. I like it very much.
Not very young style, but excellent option for people who love conservative manners. Daytime recommended

OK, I can say that YSL pour Homme is a citrus-green scent with a very decent longevity etc, etc… but you already know that, so let me say something else…
Have you ever asked yourself how many men wore this scent before you? I’m talking about men who live(d) maybe so far away from you… who wore it maybe 10 or 20 or 30 years ago…
How many men were wearing it when they had their first kiss? How many men were wearing it when they proposed to their future wife? How many men were wearing it when they got or lost their job? And that’s why I respect this scent so much. It has THE HISTORY, just like Eau Sauvage, Polo, Yatagan… They all played SOME role in so many men’s lives.
When I was buying this scent an urbane SA asked me:” You want to try it first?” I answered to her: “No, I have never tried it, but I am sure I want it”.
I got an interesting compliment for YSL pour Homme the other day. A female colleague said to me: “You smell just like a… morning”. Hmmmm… a smell of a morning… It sounds just lovely.

This is very similar to Lacoste (original) with a heavy vetiver bottom. A fine sandalwood/vetiver citrus.

I'll sound curmudgeonly now, and may be getting carried away with my analogies of scents in the rest of the world to characterize these fragrances I have added to my collection... but this one fails. I really liked the concept, the simplicity; Lemon, over Thyme, over Vetiver. Further along in my enthusiasm for fragrances I may have put these together in my mind and conceptualized the result without actually smelling it; but as it is, what I'm left with is the smell of a recently cleaned urinal at the airport. It is unmistakable. The thyme comes across as that acrid odor in the urinal that to the citrus cleaning solution just can't eliminate. Were I not so familiar with that, as a frequent business traveler, I might let it pass, but there's just no way to salvage this smell. Hopefully others have had better reactions with their skin... or, at least, have never smelled an airport bathroom to compare & contrast.

YSL pour Homme is a perfect daytime scent. The Citrus is sharp and clean, the herbal spice is moderate and the vetiver bottom allows for above average dry down. To me it is a clear-cut scent, and I don't get any of the references to BO, or dated '70s cologne that others seem to get. It's a timeless professional smelling scent executed masterfully.

This has always been one of my favorites. It's very European (like me). This is a classic and still very much worn amongst the Europeans. Clean, lemony, and never overpowering. I think this scent seperates "the men from the boys". Always in good taste !