Ysatis Iris (2004)
by Givenchy

This starts of as a nice but rich floral oriental. If it kept the opening it would be nice. After it began to dry down, it just deteriorated into a generic commercial floral fragrance, like tmgp24 says: dryer sheets. Not truly awful, but funds could be better applied to other well made florals.

17th March, 2009.

See, on me this is a sillage monster and it has more than a twang of Davidoff's Cool Water (woman) to it. I got melons as the top note. And it has a powerful tenacity.
Not my cup of lapsang souchong at all.

23rd May, 2007.

i just got this today and i like it.irises are my favorite flower.it smells pretty close.but i keep thinking it smells like something i just can't remember.maybe a dryer sheet.

21st February, 2007.

This one might be one of the best spin-off scents ever (IMHO) , the Iris here is of top notch quality and very seductive.
A softer oriental-floral, this one doesn’t really smell like the original Ysatis wich would be a nice thing for some. I mean the sillage moster that Ysatis delivers is much more demure here.
Not only the Iris here is very nice but also the top notes of mandarine, violets and blackcurrant make a very fresh, fall-like opening that becomes very much a flower power in the midnotes, rose and jasmine being the more prominent notes here, the base of intense, misterious Iris –wich is present during the whole time really- , has bits and pieces of patchouli and vanilla that are never annoying or in the way of the allmighty iris.
I think that the basenotes and that “mistery noir film” allure is the only really similar thing to the original Ysatis, wich I happen to like a lot too, but not as much as YI.
The whole life of the scent is very clear and the notes are very “clean-cut” and the mix is very soft and almost creamy. Bravo Givenchy.

10th February, 2007.