With Wild Leather fragrance from “Le Vestiaire des Parfums” Collection Orientale unveils a new facet of Yves Saint Laurent’s artistry. A new material with a lush, textural, tactile richness. A timeless couture signature for an irresistible silhouette, an untameable attitude, and an unforgettable sillage. Yves Saint Laurent Beauté’s “Le Vestiaire des Parfums” Collection Orientale explores the richness and vibrancy of Oriental scents, crafted with the savoir-faire of Parisian couture.

A childhood in Oran gave Yves Saint Laurent a lifelong nostalgia for the lands of the Orient, which he began to express in 1962, dressing Parisian women in Maharajah tunics, brocade turbans and the first version of his Safari jacket.
Once he discovered the intense colours, luxuriant vegetation and sensuality of Marrakesh, he drew constant inspiration from the Orient.

His modern, urban interpretations of traditional Oriental garments became essential parts of women’s wardrobes, alongside his trailblazing tuxedos and reefer jackets. The Collection Orientale conjures this golden age of Yves Saint Laurent couture. Lavish arabesques of scent, fragrant embroideries on skin, vibrant blends of flowers, woods, leather, and spices evoke the couturier’s creations. An alchemy of influences drawn from all over the Orient, woven into sophisticated, highly contemporary compositions.

In 1960, it was a cause for scandal. Today, it has became a wardrobe essential.
No one owns leather like Yves Saint Laurent. On the eve of the Swinging Sixties, the 23-year-old genius was the first the show a black leather jacket in a haute couture collection – a mink-edged evening design. With this infamous, all-black “Beatnik” collection of 1960, the young couturier shocked and rocked the world of fashion. “Leather? They loved it!”, enthused an editor in Vogue USA.

Yves Saint Laurent had proven he was truly in tune with his time, drawing his inspiration from the urban jungle – American Beat poets, Marlon Brando’s biker jacket and the French bad boys called blousons noirs. In 1963, at the helm of his own house, Yves Saint Laurent took his provocative stance one notch further. Black thigh-high boots. A black ciré smock. A black leather helmet. The epochal, radical “Robin Hood” outfit remains one of his most iconic looks.

Ever since, Saint Laurent has gone wild for leather’s ambiguous, provocative tension between tough masculinity and feminine sensuality. Today more than ever, it’s all about bringing YSL’s heritage up to date, and finding new, modern, extravagant ways of designing the iconic material. And now, that sexy, untameable leather has a scent.

True to its name, the new fragrance is all about leather. But not just any kind of leather. Bold leather. Straight-to-the-point leather. Powerful and vibrant. Masculine and feminine. Animalistic and chic… A vibrant blend of Oriental sensuality and Parisian edginess, Wild Leather plays on seductive contrasts and carnal addiction.To fashion the scent, the up-and-coming perfumer Fanny Bal has layered a full palette of materials with rich leather facets. First, she draws from the Middle East’s lush repertoire of spices with saffron. Built around Saffiano, a sophisticated molecule with a radiant suede-like effect, her saffron accord is magnified by the sweet, earthy smokiness of guaiac wood. Then she paints it black with a licorice-dark leather accord inspired by classic French perfumery, boosted by powerful modern ambery woody notes.

A duo of peerless natural ingredients, exclusively crafted from farm to fragrance for Yves Saint Laurent Beauté’s palette, add their rich couture texture to Wild Leather. As sleekly black and glossy as the couturier’s scandalous thigh-high boots, the delectable Bourbon vanilla pod gives off subtly animalistic leather facets. Sustainably sourced in Madagascar and obtained via a cutting-edge extraction method, this premium infusion faithfully captures the full complexity of the pod after a six-month maturation process.

Patchouli adds another layer of black. As raw and edgy as a vintage biker jacket, the iconic note of the Sixties takes on a new sophistication in Wild Leather. Sustainably harvested in Bali, a terroir that yields a uniquely sensuous quality of patchouli oil, the precious essence is also an Yves Saint Laurent Beauté exclusive. As a contrast to the deep warmth of this multi-faceted leather accord, Fanny Bal cuts it through with a coolly masculine fougère structure.\

As sharply cut as a Saint Laurent blazer, it freshens the top notes with aromatic white thyme, bergamot, and black pepper essence. The heart reveals an accord of crisp geranium, radiant orange blossom and clean lavender – like a flash of light shining on a high-gloss hide. It’s bold. It’s tough. It’s wildly couture. And just like Yves Saint Laurent’s first, iconic leather designs, it’s got a whiff of danger… Because it’s Wild Leather.

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