Jonnas – 2022-06-22:

4 out of 5

Well, all I smell is the oakmoss here.. which isn’t a bad thing. Being too young to have any real perfume associations from the 80’s, my abstract mind connects anything with moss to how I envision the 80’s smelled, it’s just so retro and rarely used to this strength anymore. Before I even learned what moss was in perfume, that scent to me was just “hairspray” lol, but now I see it as novel and grown up.
Le Labo tones down the Elnet though, and grounds it in other outdoorsy scents, which imo is where Le Labo’s strengths lie. I’m not really fond of their attempts at “glamour” or nighttime fragrances, so outdoorsy is good. Having said that, Ylang 49 is closer to dressed up and decadent than it is to a summertime hike, but it works.

bear0806 – 2022-06-22:

5 out of 5

Makes you feel like you are drinking a big glass of refreshing juice. Not too sweet, just juicy. Perfume-smelling. Similar to Chanel, smells Chanel-like. Strong, long-lasting, wonderful. I think it’s a must-buy if you have the cash.

samovolja – 2022-06-22:

4 out of 5

This is apparently 30% in concentration making it an extrair or Parfum quality. A huge Chypre number. Would appeal to fans of aromatic elixir

denteedia – 2022-06-22:

5 out of 5

I was excited to try Ylang 49 as I’d heard it was a big chypre and very perfumey which usually means love for me. It smelled great on a card yesterday, and great from the vial.
Initially most of what I’m getting is a fractionalized patchouli which reads half purple and half woody, mixed with a fruity note somewhere between plum and apricot, and a warm yellow and white floral bouquet. After it sits on the skin and develops for 45 mins a spiced floral nuance emerges and Ylang 49 grows woodier. The final drydown has an inky, leathery and mossy quality juxtaposed with that plummy note.
I like it, I don’t love it. It is interesting in its own right and it is certainly Perfume with a captial “P”! I can see a lot of women wearing this beautifully.

Naruto555 – 2022-06-22:

5 out of 5

You’re a gardenia flower, standing upright in a mostly dead garden of cucumbers and weeds. You’re a millenial, tired of the hashtags, rebelling against your Instagram feed and spilling your bottle of Santal 33 by Le Labo all over the ground as you stand in a garden of white flowers. You’re a chef salad (without the croutons) minding your own business when suddenly a teenager spills Coca-Cola all over you. Ylang 49 by Le Labo.

adnan333adnan – 2022-06-22:

4 out of 5

Ylang 49 is absolutely a beautiful chypre floral that can’t be dismissed! This power house beaut has everything going for Sexy Sultry and Sensuality my 3 S’ for a fragrance to remember…Lasting power don’t need a lot. If your a chypre lover like me this is a must try! Layered with The elegance of another Chypre named Galanos OMG! The Oakmoss is so warm and inviting…Oh Ylang 49 Earthy seductive as The Red Shoe Dairies!

jk – 2022-06-22:

4 out of 5

I discovered Ylang 49 when I visited Paris a couple years ago. There’s a Le Labo boutique in Le Marais. Initially I wanted to test Santal 33, which I have heard so much about. I smelled Santal 33 on a test strip and found it too woody to my liking, but found Ylang 49 quite interesting. I sprayed a few spritz on my husband’s wrist, since I found it a bit masculine in the beginning. We walked out without purchasing anything, but then, you know the “i can’t stop smelling his wrist” and the “someone stopped us on the street asking what perfume we are wearing” thing both happened in the afternoon.
Before dinner, we ran back to the store and bought a big bottle. Now we share and treasure it.
Ylang 49 is a modern chypre. I can’t tell what the specific notes are, not even sure if there’s Ylang in it although the name suggests so… But it’s such a unique scent that I don’t think I’ve smelled anything similar before. It’s not often talked about either. I’m glad both my husband and I love it, on ourselves and on each other.

Anton219 – 2022-06-22:

4 out of 5

Ylang 49 recreates convincingly and under a modern perspective, a female cyprus classical base with ingredients that replace the classic now restricted day, all on a floral heart of gardenia and ylang flowers these with a powerful aroma and strengthens the cyprus making it very compact structure and a unisex pair sought.
There is a tension between moss-patchouli very obvious that maintains an earthy, musky, smoky background, something dark and very exotic maintaining and counteracts with the powerful aroma of narcotic gardenia and deep sweetness of ylang as if it were a pulse, the final drying protrudes patchouli and a balmy point that tends to sweeten but very gently. Under these underlying forces a great balance between this very nice quartet occurs.
Easy to use, the fragrance is very durable, excellent quality and very good projection, make Ylang 49 a very good alternative to classic chypre discontinued.
Rating: 8

korol686 – 2022-06-22:

4 out of 5

The initial blast is very bright, and reminds me of Plum Japonais (Tom Ford) and Pomegranate Noir (Jo Malone). If Ylang 49 were a color, it would be fluorescent lavender! It opens very feminine, probably due to that gardenia, but eventually gets smokier, and might be able to pass as unisex. Overall, Ylang 49 is bright and distinctive. But after wearing it awhile, all I smell is the gardenia! And, sadly, this prominent gardenia note is the reason I can only “like” this and not love it.

Ващенко – 2022-06-22:

3 out of 5

My exploration of chypres continues, and Ylang 49 is by far my favorite. It’s better than Mitsouko, and the only floral chypre I’ve liked.
I have a decant in an atomizer bottle I jealously guard and wear only for special days. It’s so expensive; even the decant cost me dearly.
The first blast, and it is a blast, is green and moss with a hint of citrus. The first try made me feel like I’d fallen into a bergamot jungle. I really didn’t like it the first few minutes. It is so intense initially. But as it started drying down, the green faded somewhat and the ylang ylang opened, slowly at first, but building a pulse. And there it stays, the sensuality of oakmoss and the hypnotic ylang ylang, tempered by white flowers and greens.
Now I anticipate that initial blast like one of Pavlov’s dogs. Give it to me, I know what’s coming once it settles in, and I want more! Nothing else I’ve tried smells like this. I bought the decant out of curiosity. I couldn’t resist “ylang” and “chypre” in the same description.
It lasts and lasts but does not have excessive sillage. I have not tried Le Labo’s other fragrances, but I don’t need to.

dirt777 – 2022-06-22:

3 out of 5

Marvelous perfume! Very vintage-like. I have no trouble seeing Lizabeth Scott lighting a cigarette while a cloud of this rather dangerous concoction floats about and radiates from her, causing Mr. Bogart or whoever to consider doing whatever she might suggest. I especially love the gardenia, which seems truer than some. The Ylang note is really quite lovely, and the chypre base provides just the right amount of warmth and mystery to cushion these exotic florals. I think it would wear fabulously well on a man or a woman. As has been stated in other reviews, a little goes a long way.

искатель777 – 2022-06-22:

5 out of 5

I have to agree with an earlier comment here,it does smell very similar to Aromatics Elixir,which in my opinion isn’t bad at all,quite the opposite. I suppose the price point of this makes me want to buy AE,instead of this,as it is quite a difference in price,but sigh,I do love to feel a bit different and will most likely end up buying Le Labo’s Ylang instead ,well when I have saved up a bit,I don’t know if I should go for the oil or the spray fragrance,anyone aware of any differences between them two?

xrumerg – 2022-06-22:

4 out of 5

Well, I think Ylang 49 by Le Labo is an excellent floral scent. The presence of oakmoss makes it divinely unisex. I especially like the tail, spicy, high-impact, and. very good longevity. I have the impression of being on a hill in summer, surrounded by dense vegetation of trees and flowers ….. exciting!

nikfaaa – 2022-06-22:

3 out of 5

Le Labo, in their ongoing conflation of ingredient lists and titles, have made a great contribution to the reinvention of the chypre. It’s easy to misunderstand the chypre, focussing on the surface or its list of ingredients (bergamot, oakmoss, labdanum) rather than its complexity and balanced tension.
Trying to create a new chypre by replacing banned ingredients with less oppressive ones that smell the same is a strategy that aromachemical producers would love to employ. They would love to create the new captive molecule that re-creates all the beauty of oakmoss without any of its drawbacks. Le Labo take a more interesting approach. Ylang 49 doesn’t attempt to fill in the missing pieces of the original formula. It tinkers with the dynamic qualities of a chypre and recreates the sensibility with different constituent parts. It has an aggressive opening on par with the haughty start of a stark chypre. It subverts the middle-notes a bit. A tropical twist, a sort of ylang/gardenia note, allows humid florals to coexist with a dry woodiness that eventually winds up a cigarette-voiced basenote on the patchouli/benzoin axis. Ylang 49 retains the scratchy, purring quality of a floral chypre and keeps all the peculiarities and unresolved tensions I associate with a floral chypre.
The floral chypre informed classical perfumery’s working proposition that flowers are equally fetching and ferocious. Historically, beginning somewhere in the late 1980s, the credo of the fruity floral crushed floral complexity in a stampede. This credo holds that flowers should merely be simple, loud and match the sickly punch of fruity half of the fru-flo. Ylang 49, chypre or not, reminds us of the power of the flower.
from scenthurdle.com

Aleschka21063 – 2022-06-22:

3 out of 5

I just bought the Ylang 49 travel refill set, and am very pleased. Ylang is a less done floral in fragrance (much less than usual orange blossom, jasmine, tuberose, rose, etc). This is actually the only scent I know of that centers around ylang-ylang (sure there are others though).
But this new scent is nice because it is complex, unexpected with twists and turns, diverse with florals and woods. It also smells unique and is refreshing (but “un-citrusly” so) as most hot weather ones feature citrus.
The ylang smells nicely tropical but definetely get the chypre vibe and smell lots of the oakmoss and vetiver. It gets slightly creamy and can detect the gardenia. This is a great unisex floral, possibly one of the best florals for a guy to wear. Not too sweet, nicely balanced. And of course tropical but not cliched and cloying like sun lotion.
My friend said I smelt like “tea”. So perhaps this gives off a tea vibe to others around during the drydown.
UPDATE: I have discovered this stuff is VERY potent, and can be smothering and cloying if over-applied. The good thing is you don’t need more than 1 or 2 sprays to get sillage. I have found the best way to apply this for me is spraying in the palm of my hand and dabbing on my arms and neck. It distributes the oils better and makes it much more pleasant. I sprayed 2 srays on my neck and was overwhelmed, so dabbing and subtle is best with this.

romax22 – 2022-06-22:

3 out of 5

To begin with, I’m not a fan of Ylang. Ylang tends to get super cloying in fragrance, I need a certain way to wear it. Either you use one spray only, or you spray it lavishly to the air and walk under the mist.
However Le Labo’s fragrance never failed to create surprises; Rose 13 never really smelled like Rose, Vanille 44 is very smokey, Gaiac 10 leans to musk, etc.
When I got Ylang 49, I thought it wouldn’t smell like Ylang and it didn’t! This perfume reminds me of the 80’s era, a close reminder to Givenchy Amarige with its loud Gardenia & Ylang combo (apart from it’s Grand tuberose). All I got here in the top notes is a very very very very animalic white flower! I think the resin intensified the animalic even more.
Every phase is a journey, a rollercoaster. A Vava Voom to my perfume collection. Interesting to visit more than once.

kgjt12 – 2022-06-22:

5 out of 5

Well it’s a few months and my wife’s response when I inquired what her favorite is of the six samples she said, “You should know”. She’s right, I do…The Ylang 49 hands down. So I will be ordering the 100ml soon.
It makes her more yummier than ever… Any suggestions you might have for similar fragrances.

dizel52 – 2022-06-22:

5 out of 5

OK – gave a sample to my wife and I loved it immediately! Let me begin by disclosing I had no idea ylang-ylang could be so inviting and enchanting. The gardenias, and vetiver were opening for me within moments. Later the sandalwood refreshed me as we lay next to one another. and Her enthusiasm isn’t quite as demonstrative as mine so I’m not quite sure where she is with it. But I’ll definitely get her a fb soon.
She formerly wore Amarige by Givenchy so I thought this would be along her preferences…we will see. Actions truly speak louder than words with her.
She tried the Oud 27 and was repulsed by it (I think), giving her lackluster responses. So…I tried it on my wrist and neck last night…interesting enough the sillage was not too strong this morning and I quickly layered it with Ambre by Baldessarini.
Will update further along the journey..

Poshliachok – 2022-06-22:

3 out of 5

Happy New Year with new wonderful fragrances.
For me one of my most enjoyable time during the year is end of December. Together with my partner we are spending this time in Berlin. Years ago we decided to skip 24/25 December gifts for Christmas and move it for the trip to Berlin. As Berlin is like Mecca for perfume lowers we are looking for new fragrance discoveries – fragrances we don’t know before. Than we are making list what was most impressive to both of us and which perfume we like most. For me in 2013 Ylang 49 was like a star, thunder, something blowing my mind. Simple perfection and the king of perfumes I found in the ending year. Y49 is the most modern fragrance in the group of old fashioned ones. Understand me this is very modern creation that brings best from the past. Ylang yland flowers and gardenia are extremely dry (like resinous wine) while the big dose of moss that is also present makes Y49 more wearable. If I would make a scale of more or less perfumiest fragrances created in history Y49 will be very close to the end of scale of very perfume like – hopefully you know what I mean. However it is rather classical fragrance it also has very unique vibe. It is very niche due to the mix of Ylang Ylang and moss as main players. It gives Y49 very specific character unknown from other creations I know. Something between dry effect and wet soil. Probably patchouli is not neutral and plays a key role for development of such strange effects but it is not such obvious ingredient. Patchouli is more like shadow but very dark one. Not sweet, very wild, not purified, more like fermented juice from the whole plant directly mixed with other ingredients. Gardenia makes Y49 more animalistic and probably more feminine than masculine for most people. Nevertheless believe me it is 100% unisex fragrance if man is not stupid and focused only on the mass marked sport fragrances. I wish everyone many such wonderful discoveries in upcoming new year.

klesh1504 – 2022-06-22:

4 out of 5

Under the flowers, which I love, Ylang 49 is like a fantasy chypre that somebody made up for a movie. Sweeter, missing the cloven hoofed element that we all love, but it doesn’t matter because it’s great anyway, really great. I think it’s more like a cross between a chypre and a really really good cologne. I’m kind of shocked by how good this actually is. I keep thinking I’m missing something and I’ll be embarrassed by my enthusiasm…keeping my fingers crossed.

vitel – 2022-06-22:

5 out of 5

being a lover of iris 39, I would say that the similarities are clearly there, but ylang 49 is the sunnier, maybe more complex, earthly but also more “perfumey” sister of it.
the tiaré and ylang are sandwiched by a huge patchouli, moss and spice accord (the moss more present than in iris 39 which I find is more patchouli-driven). the ylang used here is full and leathery, I guess a “complete”-version and not a flowery, light later destillation.
it develops interestingly but gets very quiet quickly (1hour) and I guess whether sillage nor tenacity are strong. I like it the whole way through, though I had wished for a more striking drydown.
I would say ylang 49 could work well for people who love tropical notes like tiaré but want a more intellectual approach than “sun lotion”.
on the other side, for people who always find the classical chypre-structure (if still existant) devoid of savory pleasures and friendliness it could also be an option.
I’ll stay with Iris39…

nzf570Unlogrere – 2022-06-22:

4 out of 5

This perfume should have been called Aromatics Elixir 49 !

-=LiS=- – 2022-06-22:

3 out of 5

This is the scent for a classic femme fatale in a film noir. Or a Bond villainess. Yes, it is heavy and dark, but with the floral notes adding a fresh twist it becomes a strangely seductive combination. For the kind of woman I would be afraid of, if I lived in the 40’s. Also if you initially liked Tom Ford’s Black Orchid, but found it to be too much, then you should give this one a try for a similar dark intimidating vibe.

55509 – 2022-06-22:

3 out of 5

Le Labo, in their ongoing conflation of ingredient lists and titles, have made a great contribution to the reinvention of the chypre. It’s easy to misunderstand the chypre, focussing on the surface or its list of ingredients (bergamot, oakmoss, labdanum) rather than its complexity and balanced tension.
Trying to create a new chypre by replacing banned ingredients with less oppressive ones that smell the same is a strategy that aromachemical producers would love to employ. They would love to create the new captive molecule that re-creates all the beauty of oakmoss without any of its drawbacks. Le Labo take a more interesting approach. Ylang 49 doesn’t attempt to fill in the missing pieces of the original formula. It tinkers with the dynamic qualities of a chypre and recreates the sensibility with different constituent parts. It has an aggressive opening on par with the haughty start of a stark chypre. It subverts the middle-notes a bit. A tropical twist, a sort of ylang/gardenia note, allows humid florals to coexist with a dry woodiness that eventually winds up a cigarette-voiced basenote on the patchouli/benzoin axis. Ylang 49 retains the scratchy, purring quality of a floral chypre and keeps all the peculiarities and unresolved tensions I associate with a floral chypre.
The floral chypre informed classical perfumery’s working proposition that flowers are equally fetching and ferocious. Historically, beginning somewhere in the late 1980s, the credo of the fruity floral crushed floral complexity in a stampede. This credo holds that flowers should merely be simple, loud and match the sickly punch of fruity half of the fru-flo. Ylang 49, chypre or not, reminds us of the power of the flower.
from scent hurdle.com

Pcholka0909 – 2022-06-22:

5 out of 5

Chypre, chypre, chypre up close, which is an acquired taste, but the waft is gorgeous benzoin laced approachability. Not a beginner fragrance, though. This is one for the nerds and those old enough to remember and appreciate that chypre tang.

sarmat8888 – 2022-06-22:

3 out of 5

Le Labo’s Ylang is an interesting scent. It manages to be too indolic for me, killer jasmine and ylang ylang in the opening, and then too dry and chypre-ish in the drydown. I can appreciate the artistry of it and the quality of the ingredients but this is not a scent that I want to wear.

vehvfycr132011 – 2022-06-22:

5 out of 5

I guess Ylang 49 is like Oud 27, with very polarizing likes and dislikes. It’s a very strong scent, more pungent and sharper than Rose 31 (They don’t smell alike, I am talking about intensity). I can visualize a rich woman wearing a mink walking down the street on a winter day, but for regular folks, it is in my opinion, overkill.

юрий рассадкин – 2022-06-22:

5 out of 5

Really fantastic. Friendliest tropical fantasy perfume I’ve ever smelled. Going to buy 100ml as soon as I can afford it.