Le Labo · 2013 · Daphné Bugey

Lys 41

VersionEau de Parfum

Le Labo says

You’ll smell jasmine, tuberose absolute, lily, noble woods, vanilla and musks.

The house’s page

The drawn Lys 41 bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Lys 41’s scent picture, a draft: jasmine, tuberose, lily, vanilla, musks, bergamot drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Lys 41, top notes: Bergamot, Bitter orange

Heartthe first hours

Lys 41, heart: Jasmine, lily, Musks, Ylang-ylang

Dry-downhours later

Lys 41, dry-down: tuberose, Vanilla, Iso E Super

On the label

What’s inside it

24 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

3 citrus3 herbs & lavender11 florals2 woods2 sweet2 spices1 musks

Citrus3

LimoneneBergamot oilCitral

Herbs & lavender3

LinaloolLinalyl acetateTerpineol

Florals11

JasmineNeroli oilYlang-ylang oilBenzyl salicylateHydroxycitronellalHexyl cinnamalGeraniolFarnesolMethyl salicylateGeranyl acetateMethyl benzoate

Woods2

Iso E Super (pencil shavings)Vertofix

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Benzaldehyde

Spices2

EugenolIsoeugenol

Musks1

Galaxolide (clean linen)

Not in Ingredients yet7

Cinnamyl alcohol, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yetIsoeugenyl acetate, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha terpinene, not in Ingredients yetEthyl benzoate, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcohol

Named by Le Labo, never on a label

Tuberose absoluteLily, not in Ingredients yetVanillaMusks, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 24 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.