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301071vasilich301071 – :
Literally my citrus fragrance of all time. Excellent projection and performance. Major crowd pleaser. 10/10
allex78 – :
smells like an expired floral perfume then turn to mojito at the first sniff and finally the perfume become so vagina like scent which reminds me of vulva drops vial and aphrodisiac of agent provocatuer .. end of story
mcspater – :
This fails on my skin… something about it goes stink. I don’t usually have this problem with fragrances too often but it smells like citrus over dirty socks on my skin. Wow … I can tell it’s just my skin chemistry.
kgb_1063 – :
Nice, but a littlebit feminime for me.
okartur666 – :
On paper, it smelled fantastic for a long while.
I tried on my skin several times now.
Opening and middle is great fresh aromatic.
For me (29 male) on my skin, dry down note was a bit harsh;dirty soil note. which was not that pleasant.
It took an hour or so to go to that dry down scent for me.
So, no buy for me at the moment.
24/JUN/2018
ПАУЛЬС – :
Mad coincidence: I ordered a sample of this at the same time as ordering some samples from a boutique perfumery in the west of Ireland called the Burren Perfumery. They’re still not on Fragrantica and I don’t understand why – look them up! Anyway, they do four seasonal scents and one is called “Spring Harvest.” I sprayed ELDO’s “You Or Someone Like You” on one wrist and “Spring Harvest” from the Burren Perfumery on the other, and they are COUSINS. Like, really shouldn’t procreate together sort of cousins. I even prefer the Burren Perfumery one because it has a less… self-important style of marketing guff 😛
busar – :
The opening is like a freshly squeezed juice with hints of mint and grapefruit… But in the dry down it turns into a generic cheap floral, cassis and musk. The longevity and projection is quite poor.
Oleg.703053 – :
It is luminous and bright. I love how bracing it is and think it will be beautiful in spring and summer especially.
dedururu – :
Simply awesome from my point of view. Freshness, peaceful with a touch of “Green” note. Open with a “Mojito” vibe, you will see the summer is in front of your eyes. After that, a hint with fresh rose will come up, and in this time, somehow it smells like L’ombre dans l’eau by Dyptique, but with a shine and bright point. During about 7 hours on my skin, “YOU or someone like you” just play a Hide and seek like they have an Iso-E super from insde. GORGEOUS.
zaytsev.sasha – :
This is a walk through a herbal garden with dominant fresh mint and citrus notes. And I like it a lot: opening, middle and musky drydown is a perfect warm spring day pickup. I don’t smell the rose note but I do detect a faint anise.
I’m layering it with Herba Fresca and they compliment each other. I elevated this to one of my favorite spring scents. About 2 hours before it turns to a skin scent, and I’m good with that lifespan for a fresh mint perfume.
gyc486InsuffBooni – :
First thought is that this is a mint based perfume. Not the freshly cut mint, but rather the dry tea kind. Then what complements it is the green leaves; it does have a vegetal and wet feel to it, almost like we’ve made a mint tea from those dried mint leaves.
The drydown is where the mint takes a back stage and while I can’t pin point what exactly I am smelling now, it is a pretty common aroma used heavily in the last few years, especially in the masculine designer releases.
Scent: 7/10
Longevity: 8/10
Projection: 4/10
курадноб – :
I can’t smell this particular blend of rose-cassis without thinking of L’Ombre dans L’Eau by Diptyque. Imagine this accord faded a bit into the back, with a watery vegetal summer vibe of grapefruit and spearmint gum, and you have You or Someone Like You.
scelafe – :
You or Someone Like You…
Etat Libre or Issey Miyake
This could easily be one of L’eau d’Issey Pour Homme’s BEST summer flankers. YoSLY is fresher and cleaner, more minty and lemony.
Longevity is superb. Projection is moderate.
-AB-
dima golichenko – :
What I get from this is a realistic mint with something herbal and a faint citrus at the top. The mid settles into some herbal , musk and floral ,particularly rose. A very clean yet unique scent that one can tell has some quality. Final dry down is what I really like ,which is a light watery rose with its green freshly cut stem and some clean musk. I picked up a bottle for my wife and I before I even went through my sample.
Nealleync – :
To me this smells like beautiful fresh spearmint leaves crushed up and breathed in while standing in a flower garden. I don’t get a whole lot of orange, but I do sense the citrus in the background. It’s mostly spearmint and fresh herbal and floral scents. It really does smell like a perfume interpretation of a wonderfully fragrant garden with herbs and flowers alike.
It’s a perfect scent for spring or summer, and is very inoffensive since it does smell so ‘natural’. It’s almost just like a fresh garden breeze.
artem13011998mail.ru – :
Smells very much like aloe sap to me, which I didn’t realise I wanted in a perfume until I tried it. Very cooling, very green and slightly floral with a lingering musky trail.
Kekselomism – :
BEAUTIFUL!
It starts with a realistic mint and transforms to a green rosy citrusy scent. It’s like a well blend of respected Issey Miyake’s L’eau D’issey and fabulous Dyptique’s L’Ombre Dans L’Eau.
High quality and beautiful on men and women. I like it so much
ацилут – :
A blast of freshness. Lots of mint leafs and cucumber. Very watery & uplifting, but strong presence. After 20 minutes there is the bergamot & grapefruit coming out as the mint does subside a bit. Rose comes out after an hour. Throughout there are herbs and fresh cut grass. There is a shy fruity sweetness to it, like a sugarcane. Although you might think of a Mojito this is not the association I get. This is more like a lush green forest after rain.
Very good persistence considering the type of fragrance. Projection is moderate. I wish other ELdO lasted this long and keept this mnay notes till the end.
For me personally probably not a full bottle, but a great hot summer scent.
Tested from a sample bought directly from ELdO.
Taraskas – :
#198
I really do see why someone would compare this to Guerlain’s Herba Fresca. They do have a very similar vibe.
However, I much prefer this. It has so many more layers and nuances that solidify this as a perfect ELdO release.
It opens in a very in your face way, seeming more eucalyptus than mint but than it cools down to this beautiful Herba Fresca vibe with cucumber and green tea. It feels slightly rosey and very wet. Colour me a fan of this one.
deewlyagreeby – :
Mojito, cilantro, fennel, fizz, fuzz.
A melange of fresh crushed herbs, piquant, green, a little sweet. Sometimes I get a tingle of toothpaste in the back of my throat with the squeaky cleanness and almost medicinal bitterness. A touch of bug spray; a rattle of a metal spray can. A bit of a cold industrial feel.
Avant-garde and creative but I don’t dig it as a scent I would wear. It feels a little characterless and sterile. Mint salad in a stainless steel bowl anyone?
odz066speagoessenda – :
The first thing I felt was mint, a powerful, refreshing mint as someone rubbed a mint leaf into his hands. I picked the mint from the fields many times. This smell is exactly the same.
After a while some strong green notes feel their presence. They change the direction of the perfume a little, but the mint remains at the center of the composition.
Because mint is very often used in medicine, it can be said that the smell of the perfume recalls the medicinal smell of the pills.
The dry-down is minty musk. Now the mint is stronger to my nose. It is like a last swing before it disappears altogether.
It is a nice perfume for summer, sparkling, boozy, with a lot of personality. It is a try!
mamuka – :
Not so much a review as a response to Chandler Burr’s quite dismissive comments below.
Chandler, your analogy to a film is all wrong. The proper analogy would be to food, because our senses of taste and smell are closely linked. When you are deciding whether you think you will like a dish, do you look at the ingredients and base your decision on the sorts of things you have and have not liked in the past? Of course you do.
People want to know what is in a fragrance because that is the best guide as to whether they are likely to find it attractive. Some people have allergic reactions to some ingredients. With the thousands of perfumes available, you cannot expect that people will seek yours out and try it if you refuse to give even the most basic information about it.
vfq – :
let’s forget the pretentious “no notes for you” approach for a moment: the scent itself is pleasantly, non-descriptively fresh with a twist of grapefruit. kind of a non-scent. and perhaps that’s why no notes: because there is really nothing much here. that “nothing much”, however, is VERY tenacious.
skwid – :
I just received my full bottle and I am wearing it today. I have mixed feelings. I did test this several times with a sample I received. The Rose in my bottle is a bit more prominent, and a bit too much more for my liking. It’s a nice smelling rose that leans feminine. The mint in my bottle is hardly detectable on my skin. Florals pop on my skin and I should have known better. This may be up for sale soon. I’m not disappointed in the fragrance, I’m disappointed in how the bottle differs from the sample on my skin….
gye219Bessinepome – :
On my skin: this smells exactly like the Vaseline aloe vera lotion used at the Asian spa when they do deep tissue massage on my neck and back. It’s like this for the entire time that YOSLY lasts.
Pleasant? Absolutely. I get all the notes referenced in the prior reviews – it’s all about minty, wet, fresh vegetation.
A whole bottle of this juice for me? Nope.
ahnenan – :
I imagined wet plants stalks or leaves from this perfume. This is very strong, sharp, sour, and green scent until last. Some time I feel it rather acrid.
I like minty, green and refreshing scent, but this is not my taste as it’s too sour for me. But This is very interesting perfume as an art, as well as the other perfumes from this brand.
atj – :
This scent has received a lot of hype, but I’m afraid this was very disappointing for me. In line with ELDO’s penchant for controversial names, this should be called Popper. It doesn’t smell like old socks like the traditional version, but you’ll get a sudden rush of synthetic chemicals after consumption through the nostrils, very shortly followed by faint remnants of what was sprayed.
Yes, there’s a very pleasant mojito/spearmint opening with a rosy edge, but the longevity is so poor (30 minutes on my skin) that it is not worth a purchase. I’d probably go for Balenciaga Florabotanica if I were looking for something with a similar profile (more prominent rose, but better longevity than this).
Baxamedia – :
Initial spray is sharp and ozonic.
I get less mint and more the snap of a freshly cut lawn – not full on galbanum sharp, but a bite of grass.
It dries down into a sweet hay-like scent before settling like sunshine on warm skin.
Lovely.
klabster – :
Minty and green. If you like those 2 fragrances with a light,very light
musk backround,not as much musky smell in molecule 01 this is for you. About 3 to 4 longevity. Try it friends
StimAxel5610 – :
I’m intrigued! It smells like brushing your teeth while standing in your garden, in the summer, wearing freshly washed and pressed linen PJs. There is also – on me – a slight note of musk that comes in as we near dry down, like a little bit of summertime sweat, but not funky “I haven’t bathed in five days” sweat, and more like “It’s hot and I just danced to my favorite song while brushing my teeth” sweat.
piter222 – :
Totally mojito and ive spent too many evenings in the two for one cocktail bar to ever wear this without being reminded of hangovers but if you like mint scents then be my guest. Have one for me!
arklys10 – :
@chandlerburr. I’m waiting for my bottle to arrive, but I wanted to say that I whole-heartedly agree. Thanks for your input.
anya.galyan – :
I am totally digging this. I have a sample from Luckyscent and it’s very refreshing. When sprayed in the air (like to get an idea before diving in sometimes) it smells very minty, like a spearmint. I really wasn’t sure how this would wear on me, but I decided to go for it and I am very much enjoying the freshness and the hints of the fragrance that keep popping out to me.
AlexZarg – :
Fresh, more fresh and this freshness dosn’t ending. Fellings like drinking something so fresh, minty and breathing cool air to refresh. It’s smells so good and i’m really happy to discover this. Love it!
spine – :
WOW! That explosion of freshness… I feel a lot of grass and mint, a summery and timeless perfume, it penetrates inside and gives me serenity! This perfume is like a cocktail of happiness and relaxation. I can not distinguish well the other notes, I perceive flowers… it is a well-calibrated and unisex perfume! I can not wait to wear it in the summer. I like it. ☼
Sillage: 8/10
Longevity: 7./10
Scent: 8./10
Overall: 8./10
fqu952Unlogrere – :
A lab mix of all the freshest molecules you can find in anything from herbs, camphorous resins and citruses.
A compound borrowed from shiso, a molecule taken from spearmint, etc. (without actually using the natural oils)
Clever, modern, unlike anything out there.
Нина Курмель – :
Never ending freshness.
It’s like a Guerlain herba fresca which never ends.
I’ve been looking for a long lasting minty/green scent for ages and I don’t care much whether it’s synthetic or not: I bought a bottle and feel satisfied.
It’s very uplifting to me and I see no point in buying anything else in summertime when one wishes to wear a fresh lasting fragrance.
My peppermint dreams have finally come true.
mosxxtrzcm – :
Minty (spearmint or Yerba Buena) and green. A lot of fresh herbaceous notes with an earthy (perhaps a little woody) backdrop. Unusual. Unique. Great for hot weather.
The mint is natural, like smelling a mint leaf (with that green leaf smell also), not like toothpaste or similar hygiene products. This perfume does not smell like mojito. I should know because i have both drank and made the real stuff for many many years. I don’t smell rum, booze, limes or sugar notes here, just the mint leaf scent.
Merhat – :
This is very green, fresh and cold on me. I am getting a mix of watery citrus fruits, cool mint and light smelling flower (not those big, lush florals) but the barely there scent of a flower. My daughter would love this, she is into fresh, herbal, unisex scents and this is what I am getting from this perfume.
Samphesee – :
Menta, lime e zucchero di canna. Mojito straordinario che vira dapprima su un fruttato alla pesca e quindi su un floreale di gelsomino e infine, ahimè, su un bouquet di fiori di campo per me tremendo. Peccato, l’inizio mi piace proprio tanto.
boyrex – :
I am not sure what people are talking about with florals!!! This goes on pure lemon or lemongrass citrus then the middle is BO, armpit sweat then becomes a skin scent, a not-there musk that is like ISO Super E.
vittalli – :
I haven’t worn this yet but look forward to it – from the sample vial I have, it’s the most realistic straight-up mojito I’ve smelled yet. Will update when I give it a try
Update: Upon wearing it’s really nice, and the top notes give way slightly for some more florals. I sort of get the same vibe as I do from Kurkdijian’s floral aquatic fragrances like Acqua Vitae Forte. Not saying the notes are the same (though I think I smell similarities in the florals) but it has the same freshness and appeal to me
ALLA2011 – :
Chandler Burr here. Very interesting comments, both negative and positive. (The negative are perhaps even more interesting to hear; this is how one learns…) I love Michelle’s “minty earth” description.
Briefly, the reason for not listing raw materials is that it seems to me this is a strange reductionist way to talk about a scent. Even forget the question of “art”, describing Avengers movies (I love them) or Katy Perry songs (ditto) by giving a list of the parts used to make them up (they have Iron Man, race cars, special effects, fights, jet planes) doesn’t tell you anything. Well — it tells you *that, but what’s that? Are the race cars used in a funny, intelligent, interesting way, are these things put together in a compelling way? There’s always a villain. Is s/he interesting, original or a cliche? And the only way to have an opinion on that is to discuss her in the context of the movie. It’s about the movie. There’ve been a zillion superhero movies, they all have the same basic materials, some suck, some are great. What counts is the movie. That’s it. So my view is, for godssake let’s watch the movie. Not reduce the movies to the cars. That’s why I’m just never going to list raw materials. I think it’s prima facie idiotic. If the scent is a failure for you and you can say why, that’s interesting. If it’s a success and you can describe that success, that’s interesting. “It has mint absolute” is reductionist, irrelevant, and a completely impoverished way of looking at perfume.
merspasha – :
As pointed out already, it smells like a mojito, albeit a mojito that has gone slightly flat and diminished in effervescence.
I mostly get cool, saccharine mint, geraniol, linalool and smooth lactonic musks, predominantly fresh and citric at least until the dry down which smells more or less like a cheap, rose-scented body lotion. It’s pleasant for summer weather, but not particularly bold or interesting and the ingredients don’t smell especially high quality. I have no idea what the concept is about and all the nonsense over hiding the notes is to me just another pretentious marketing ploy by an increasingly worn out contraption.
If you’ve sniffed “Herba Fresca” by Guerlain, you don’t need to smell this.
*Also the bottle looks super cheap and ugly.
Korablow – :
Received this as a sample to try. Smelled great in the bottle but turned into an ammonia nightmare on my skin. Even after two hours the smell didn’t change. Not a perfume that works well with my chemistry.
Vurewazo – :
I entirely agree with meama.
This is a generic white musk rose with some peppermint in the beginning.
As Mr Burr claims that this scent is not intended for people interested in ingredients, he maybe should have taken care that the aromachemicals used would not hit you right in the face in such an obvious manner.
мойша72 – :
The new fragrance by Etat Libre d’Orange was inspired by a novel by Chandler Burr and in fact shares the name of the book. “You Or Someone Like You.” The fragrance came into being when Etienne de Swardt, founder of Etat Libre d’Orange read the novel and called Chandler Burr to ask if he could make a perfume based on the book he had so loved. He wanted to base the perfume on the setting, Los Angles, and the narrator Anne Rosenbaum wife of a powerful Hollywood film executive. The story revolves around her resulting transformation when she is asked to create a reading list for the head of a studio. That leads to an unexpected interest from screenwriters, agents, and producers around town. A Hollywood book club is formed where Anne blooms in the process. Then when a religious crisis in her husband’s life occurs when their son journeys to Israel, Anne is challenged to save her marriage.
For Chandler Burr who not only wrote the novel but was also the New York Times fragrance critic and author of “The Perfect Scent” and “The Emperor of Scent” this was both a challenge and very exciting. Over the course of the creation of the scent it became tremendous learning experience for him. The experience was so profound he has noted that he feels that he should have made a fragrance before becoming the critic for the New York Times. For the creation of the scent Chandler as creative director for the Eau de Parfum teamed up with perfumer Caroline Sabas and together they came up with “You Or Someone Like You.”
For me this is an extremely emotional fragrance, moving and nostalgic. Chandler Burr says it is not Los Angeles stuffed in a bottle but to me, it is like coming home to my long-abandoned home town. It carries all and more that I wrote about above in the memories and feelings this fragrance brought up for me. It inspires me to dream of spring and summer in the city of angles. A spring that comes in February and a summer that ends in November. It is a uni-sex fragrance that carries in it the DNA of classic citrus colognes of the past. Yet like the city of Los Angeles it is layered with facades of modernity over a historical base. There is in “You Or Someone Like You.” Elements of the sage brush of this Hollywood hills baking in the heat, of tropical flowers and swimming pools, high above the exhaust clouds of the 405 freeway. Peeling eucalyptus bark and dyeing orange blossoms and the wonderful scent of night blooming jasmine. All it comes together in “You Or Someone Like You” in a bright opening. It carries and holds for me this feeling, this L.A. sensation all the way through the fragrance to the end. Yet it does evolve as it goes along from the “morning” of the fragrance all the way through to the “evening” and finally into a “magic hour” drydown. It swirls, rises, and falls in intensity only to rise again on my skin. I found this aspect of the fragrance to be delightful.
For those to whom such things matter about a fragrance, it projects at about six inches, the sillage is soft. The longevity is substantial, being that is an eau de parfum over an eau de toilette it lasted on my skin nearly to eighteen hours. And even then, the next morning there were faint traces of it. It wears best for most in spring and summer, but I’m sure that I shall be visiting “You Or Someone Like You” in fall and winter for a brief trip to my past, to the land of the lotus eaters, the place where dreams are manufactured and Hollywood Boulevard at sunset looks like a glittering ribbon of celluloid.
(FOR THE MEMORIES THIS FRAGRANCE BROUGHT UP CHECK OUT MY BLOG SCENTS MEMORY)
r4v3nexecutor – :
Nice opening but super boring fruity-white musk base. I don’t understand the artistic approach…this is a perfume already done ten times in the cheap mainstream.
ispanez – :
I am obsessed with this. I got a sample in my March 2017 LuckyScent Sampler Pack, and this is the sample that called my name. I dreamt about it. I couldn’t wait to put it on in the morning.
It is such a fascinating and beautiful scent. Minty and green. I love smelling like the woods, the forest or the jungle. Fragrances with this kind of thick vegetation vibe are my jam. This smells like a minty forest. Wet, thick, green vegetation is everywhere, covered by mint. It’s glorious and earthy.
Completely addicting. I will be purchasing a full bottle, because it’s rare that a fragrance is on my mind day and night like this one is.
March 2017 LuckyScent Sampler Pack.
ПАВЕЛ3575 – :
I was drawn to these reviews by the name of the scent, the same as the title of a book by Chandler Burr. Although the book is a work of fiction, the axis around which the tale turns is an event that occurs during a visit to Israel by the very young man. Burr explains in the preface that what is told, here in the book, is essentially what happened to him on his own journey to Israel.
I doubt that the scent will have the same profound on me that the book had, but I am ordering a bottle in tribute to the author.
Edit: I have received my bottle and find it to my liking. It smells of a warm garden in late afternoon, with a soft green balsamic scent. It reminds me a little of Ormonde Woman, of which I am fond, leading me to think there some Iso E Super in the mix. There is nothing startling here, rather, a perfume to be worn on a day of quiet contemplation.
Goldfang – :
Since Fragrantica doesn’t have notes listed for this, I decided to scour the internet in hopes of finding some answers. The official ELDO page for YOSLY contains the quote, “The raw materials are completely irrelevant. The work is the work. If you need to know what it’s made of, don’t wear it; ‘You’ is not for you.” Now, I find this both pretentious and difficult. I get it, it’s art, that’s ELDO’s thing. But wanting to know the notes means it’s not for you? Give me a break. However, I was able to find a few notes, for those who are curious.
Specifically mentioned notes are mint and rose, and there was mention of garden herbs and grasses but nothing specific.
So, on to the actual review. I was very excited when I first put this on, as like another reviewer mentioned, it is definitely like a mojito. Upon initial application – and before I had looked up any notes – I tried to discern what I was smelling. Mint was the first thing I noticed. Cool and fresh, yet very earthy. I smelled other herbs too, perhaps something like basil or even rosemary. They were fleeting though, and just sort of morphed into a nondescript “green” smell, again very earthy. Some sort of citrus, like lime or bergamot. And that was the opening. Not too bad. It was well and truly unisex as well.
As the first hour of wear time progressed, I felt like this scent was getting much more green and earthy. The citrus was still somewhere in the background, but all of the other notes had turned into a proper herb garden. Grass, dirt, and the warmth of the earth. I could detect something floral, which I presume to be the rose. (Though there may be other flowers at work here.) What caught me off guard, though, was a gradual descent into a very synthetic scent. The official description says this contains “synthetic and natural beauty” as it is supposed to be evocative of Los Angeles, and my goodness, I couldn’t agree more. To me, it smelled like Iso E Super, which I very much dislike. However, with so many “new” synthetic notes at play these days, it could be something else. Regardless, I was unimpressed with this turn of events.
To wrap things up, I’ll just say a few things. Firstly, this is a true ELDO scent in the way that it is meant to be experienced, not just smelled. ELDO scents tell a story, take you somewhere, and make you think. That doesn’t always mean they smell good, but it does make them interesting. While I personally did not like the end result of YOSLY, I do think it stays incredible true to its story and description. (I recommend visiting the website to give the full description a read.) So while I do not like this, I can say that I at least appreciate the thought that went into it. Is it worth trying? Absolutely! I think this is a scent that could truly work as a unisex scent, and I also think the right person could pull this off marvelously.
Ziggo – :
It does smell like mojito… which is not what I’m looking in perfumes, so a bit of disappointment…
Interesting discovery: I was sniffing my wrist above my coffee that I just made, and both aromas combined into a very pleasant scent.
To me, this perfume is not finished, but could be a good base to work on.
ashotbullit – :
Roses, mojito-like mint and a lot of wild grasses. Cool and crisp scent, perfect for spring and hot summer days.
Scouser2892 – :
I sampled this fragrance today and I really like it and it’s performance! I’m not talking bout just w/ the longevity but the path which it takes going all the way to the dry down. WonderfuL! It’s so well blended and concocted! I would buy a full bottle but it smells very much like an orange peel and I just don’t like rocking orange scents because I don’t see myself to be an orangey type guy. Lol