Y Elixir Cologne keeps its structure deliberately spare: Lavender alone opens the composition, calm and immediately recognizable. Geranium carries the entire heart, green and slightly sweet, extending that calm rather than complicating it with anything more. Frankincense and Oud take over for the entire finish, dense and resinous enough to give this Parfum real, weight through an entire long evening.
Yves Saint Laurent built this woody oriental fragrance for formal occasions and the cooler months especially well, rewarding real patience with its depth. Few colognes prove that three careful, deliberate notes can truly carry more presence than a crowded dozen ever really could, across an entire cold weather season of formal evenings worth marking well indeed once more too indeed.