YSL · 2025 · Dominique Ropion

Y Iced Cologne

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor men

VersionEau de Toilette Intense

Icy mint and a cooling chill over blue sage, drying to salty ambergris-like woods and patchouli.

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Y Iced Cologne’s scent picture, a draft: mint, sage, ambroxan (ambergris), patchouli, bergamot, lemon drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Y Iced Cologne, top notes: Mint, Cooling arcticle, Bergamot, Lemon, Geranium, Lavender, Anethole (anise)

Heartas it settles

Y Iced Cologne, heart: Sage

Dry-downwhat stays

Y Iced Cologne, dry-down: Ambroxan (ambergris), Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay), Hexadecanolactone (musk)

What’s inside it

What the label names

32 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

6 citrus10 herbs & lavender6 florals4 woods2 sweet2 spices1 musks1 powder

10 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

ErosVersace · shares mint, ambergris and patchouli$129 for 100 ml · about the same as Y Iced Cologne’s $155
1 MillionRabanne · shares mint and patchouli$126 for 100 ml · about the same as Y Iced Cologne’s $155
InvictusRabanne · shares ambergris and patchouli$130 for 100 ml · about the same as Y Iced Cologne’s $155
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.