Perfume Houses - Y

Perfume Guide Designer Fragrances & Perfumes
Perfume Houses - Yardley, Yohji Yamamoto, Yves Rocher, Yves Saint Laurent

Yardley

Yardley London enters the new millennium as world leaders in naturally fragranced bath luxuries. Yardley London is a beautiful range of fragrances for the home and body that still remains true to its heritage as the quintessential English perfumery house specialising in lavender and floral fragrances. Yardely have a long ranging history in the beauty business that began in1620, in the reign of the Charles I, when a young man of that name paid the monarch a large sum of money to gain a concession to manufacture soap for the whole of London. Since that time Yardley ahs grown from strength to strength and is one of the most quintescentially British natural brands.

Yohji Yamamoto

Feel like a child, discover the wonders of this world - again and again - be delighted. This is the signature of the legendary Japanese designer, Yohji Yamamoto. The respected French perfumer, Nathalie Feisthauer worked with Yamamoto to interpret his haute couture clothes. His perfumes mix the childish with older feminine and masculine ideals, in a comic book manner and also layer this with an explicit and daring sensuality and sexiness that make his perfume and aftershave creations completely unique.

Yves Rocher

Yves-Rocher specialise in great quality and great value health and beauty products. Yves Rocher is one of the world's leaders in botanical skincare and their fragrance range is one of the purest available, without exception. Yves Rocher fragrances are invigorating and sensual and are more like natural scent waters that glide onto the skin and condition the nose without harshness and invasiveness, enveloping the wearer in a caressing olfactory experience.

Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent reigns as one of the most influential and inspired designers in the world. From his early days in the studio of Christian Dior to his acclaimed haute couture collections of today, YSL's touch remains unmistakable. The YSL style is reflected in the realm of fashion, including accessories, jewelry, ready-to-wear, fragrance, and cosmetics. Yves Saint Laurent is synonymous with excitement, individuality, and a totally fresh and brilliantly inspired point of view, this flavour and essence is clear in each YSL fragrance. Ysl fragrances speak for the decade of their creation and shall always remain timeless tributes to how women and men felt during that period in which they were created.

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Perfume
This is the extract or extrait of a fragrance and represents the scent in its purest form. This often creates a smooth and round texture, which is hard to achieve with the dilution represented in the other concentrations of fragrance.
EDP
Eau de Parfum or EDP is one of the most popular forms of fragrance. Eau de Parfum contains between seven to fourteen per cent of fragrance oils and perfume elixirs and is the second strongest, and longest lasting means of wearing a fine fragrance.
EDT
Eau de Toilette or EDT is fast becoming the most common means of wearing a fragrance or perfume. EDT’s are not as highly concentrated in oils and elixirs as an EDP or Perfume would be and contain one to three per cent of fragrance oils. This impacts the ability of the fragrance to last and around eighty percent of the oils in an EDT fragrance will evaporate within three hours of application.
EDC
Eau de Cologne’s or EDC’s were first popularised by Napoleon. These fragrances are often constructed in a different manner to the traditional French Model and are formulated in one single burst. As a result of this process, EDC’s or Eau de Colognes last the least amount of time on the skin and can dissolve within a couple of hours. EDC’s should be worn as a invigorating spray.