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Givenchy Ysatis
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Ysatis

Citrus
Floral
Rose
White Floral
Green
Aldehydic
Woody
EDT · 1984 · womens

Givenchy's Ysatis arrived in 1984 as a bold statement from the storied French house, arriving during a golden era for complex, architectural fragrances designed to announce themselves.

The fragrance opens with a bright aldehydic burst, bergamot and citruses cutting through a powdery floral introduction anchored by orange blossom and ylang-ylang. The heart pivots toward a full-bodied white floral bouquet, with tuberose, jasmine, and narcissus layering over spiced carnation and rum notes. The animalic character emerges here, a warm sensuality threading through the florals. The base settles into a dense chypré foundation, oakmoss and patchouli providing structure while amber, musk, and civet add depth and skin-like warmth. Honey and vanilla round out the finish, preventing the composition from turning austere.

This is a fragrance for someone wanting presence and complexity, not a backdrop scent. It works best in cooler months or evening wear, where its full-bodied florals and spiced base can develop properly. The balance of powder, animalic notes, and woody base gives it surprising versatility despite its boldness. Ysatis suits wearers drawn to The Romantic, The Homesteader, and The Tactician.

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Main Accordsreported by community
Citrus
19%
Floral
100%
Rose
20%
White Floral
90%
Green
19%
Aldehydic
100%
Woody
50%
Earthy
43%
Musky
24%
Powdery
70%
Warm Spicy
24%
Spicy
26%
Sweet
44%
Animalic
60%
Creamy
19%
Fragrance Notesbrand verified
Top · 0–30 min
Aldehydes
Aldehydes
The chemical family that created modern perfumery, aldehydes were first used prominently in Chanel N°5 (1921), adding a soapy, abstract, almost metallic sparkle that lifted the fragrance above anything previously possible. They don't smell like anything in nature; their effect is more textural than aromatic. Aldehydic fragrances feel luminous, sophisticated, and distinctly 20th century.
Bergamot
Bergamot
A sun-ripened Italian citrus with a brightness that goes beyond lemon, simultaneously tart, floral, and slightly spicy. It's the defining note of Earl Grey tea and the backbone of countless fresh colognes. Perfumers love it as an opener because it lifts the entire composition without overpowering what follows.
Brazilian Rosewood
Brazilian Rosewood
The heartwood of Aniba rosaeodora produces an oil once used extensively in fine perfumery for its warm, woody, slightly rosy, and faintly camphorous character. Brazilian rosewood is now endangered and heavily restricted, making it extremely rare. Synthetic alternatives are used today, but the original had a unique beauty that modern substitutes approximate.
Citruses
Citruses
Coconut
Coconut
Creamy, tropical, and slightly sunscreen-like, coconut reads as summery and carefree. In light doses it adds a beachy sweetness; in heavier use it can veer into suntan lotion territory. Most effective when paired with citrus or florals to lift it from the beach bar and into the realm of wearable tropical fragrance.
Galbanum
Galbanum
One of perfumery's oldest raw materials, a bitter, intensely green resin with a cut-grass, slightly medicinal quality. It's the note that gives vintage green chypres their sharp, naturalistic edge. Galbanum alone is almost unpleasantly aggressive, but in a composition it adds a vivid green freshness that nothing else can match.
Mandarin Orange
Mandarin Orange
Orange Blossom
Orange Blossom
Sweeter and more honeyed than neroli (both come from the same tree), orange blossom is a floral note with a warm, almost edible quality. It floats between citrus and floral families, adding richness without weight. A signature note of classic Mediterranean and Middle Eastern perfumery.
Ylang-Ylang
Ylang-Ylang
Heart · 30 min – 3 hrs
Carnation
Carnation
Spicy, clove-like, and slightly powdery, carnation is one of perfumery's oldest floral notes, with a warm, almost peppery character that distinguishes it from softer flowers. It has a vintage, slightly old-fashioned quality that is coming back into fashion. Think pressed flowers in an old book, warm and complex.
Iris
Iris
One of perfumery's most prized and expensive ingredients, iris has a powdery, cool, almost carrot-like richness that is hard to describe and impossible to mistake. It's simultaneously earthy and refined, like the inside of an old Parisian couture house. Iris root (orris) adds quiet luxury to anything it touches.
Jasmine
Jasmine
Intoxicating, heady, and slightly animalic, jasmine is one of the few flowers that smells as rich in a bottle as it does climbing a garden wall at dusk. It has an almost fleshy, indolic quality that stops it reading as purely 'clean.' Jasmine is a workhorse in both feminine and masculine perfumery, adding depth and soul.
Narcissus
Narcissus
Green, honeyed, and slightly rubbery, narcissus (daffodil) is one of perfumery's most complex and difficult white florals. It has an almost animalic indolic quality alongside its sweetness, giving it a raw, living-flower character that synthetic white musks can't match. Used carefully it adds extraordinary depth.
Rose
Rose
The queen of floral notes and the most-used ingredient in fine perfumery. Real rose is simultaneously velvety, honeyed, and slightly spicy, nothing like the synthetic candy version. Depending on the variety used, it can anchor a composition or drift through it like a ghost, adding warmth without dominating.
Rum
Rum
Sweet, slightly smoky, and warm, the distilled essence of sugarcane adds a tropical, slightly boozy warmth to orientals and leather fragrances. It has a brown-sugar, molasses quality with a gentle spirit-like shimmer. Often found alongside tobacco and wood notes to create warm, convivial compositions.
Tuberose
Tuberose
One of the most intensely floral natural ingredients in existence, rich, creamy, and almost narcotic in its sweetness. Tuberose is polarizing by design: it's meant to be enveloping, not background. It has rubbery, vanilla-like facets that make it feel both sensual and slightly retro.
Base · 3–12 hrs
Amber
Amber
A warm, resinous accord rather than a single ingredient, amber is typically built from labdanum, benzoin, and vanilla to create a rich, honeyed, almost solar warmth. It's the quintessential base-note family, adding a comforting richness that makes fragrances feel complete. The difference between a fragrance feeling cold and feeling alive.
Civet
Civet
An animalic note with a raw, musky, slightly fecal quality that might sound unappealing but adds extraordinary depth and sensuality in small amounts. Natural civet is no longer used (it was obtained unethically); modern substitutes are kinder but similarly provocative. A hallmark of classic Chanel and Guerlain fragrances.
Cloves
Cloves
Honey
Honey
Sweet, waxy, and faintly animalic, honey in perfumery has an almost skin-like quality, intimate and slightly raw. It's related to beeswax in the natural world, and both add a warmth that reads as close and personal. Honey bridges floral and oriental families, adding natural sweetness with a slightly dark edge.
Musk
Musk
The base layer of almost every modern fragrance, a soft, warm, skin-like scent that extends longevity and bridges other notes together. Natural musk was once derived from deer (now banned); today's musks are synthetic and range from clean and soapy to dark and animalic. The right musk makes a fragrance smell like 'you.'
Oakmoss
Oakmoss
The defining ingredient of classic chypre perfumery, damp, forest-floor earthy with a faint bitterness and incredible complexity. Real oakmoss is now heavily restricted by IFRA regulations, which is why vintage chypres smell so different from modern ones. When present, it creates a raw, outdoorsy anchor that no synthetic fully replicates.
Patchouli
Patchouli
Dense, earthy, and darkly sweet, patchouli is the scent of damp soil and dried herbs with an almost chocolatey richness. It polarizes people because in high concentrations it's overwhelming, but as a supporting note it adds depth and longevity that almost nothing else can match. The backbone of countless oriental and chypre fragrances.
Sandalwood
Sandalwood
Creamy, smooth, and milky with a soft, skin-like warmth that clings beautifully. True Mysore sandalwood is one of perfumery's most precious ingredients, simultaneously wood and skin, never cold or sharp. It rounds off sharp edges in any composition and makes the wearer smell subtly, irresistibly warmer.
Vanilla
Vanilla
Warm, sweet, and universally appealing, vanilla is to fragrance what salt is to cooking. Real vanilla is complex and slightly smoky, though most perfumery vanilla is synthetic and reads as clean, sweet, and creamy. It slows the evaporation of other notes and is the reason certain fragrances feel like a second skin.
Vetiver
Vetiver
Earthy, smoky, and complex, vetiver root is extracted from a grass native to India and has a scent that is simultaneously rooty, woody, and slightly lemony. It's one of perfumery's great base notes: tenacious, unisex, and endlessly adaptable. A fragrance built around vetiver feels grounded and deeply confident.
Who Wears ThisScent DNA matches
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The HomesteaderBest match85% match
Rooted, warm, and entirely self-sufficient.

Warm skin musks, sandalwood, soft cedar, clean vetiver. Grounding, intimate, unhurried.

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The Romantic83% match
Your fragrance is a love letter you never stop writing.

Warm roses, vanilla, amber, creamy musks. Soft, evolving, intimate.

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The Tactician83% match
Precision over excess. Always.

Crisp, dry, clean, worn close. Citrus, aromatic herbs, light woods, soft musks.

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Scent Profile
Citrus19%Floral100%Rose20%White Floral90%Green19%
Fragrance Family
Chypre
EDT

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What does Givenchy Ysatis smell like? +
Givenchy's Ysatis arrived in 1984 as a bold statement from the storied French house, arriving during a golden era for complex, architectural fragrances designed to announce themselves. The fragrance opens with a bright aldehydic burst, bergamot and citruses cutting through a powdery floral introduction anchored by orange blossom and ylang-ylang. The heart pivots toward a full-bodied white floral bouquet, with tuberose, jasmine, and narcissus layering over spiced carnation and rum notes. The animalic character emerges here, a warm sensuality threading through the florals. The base settles into a dense chypré foundation, oakmoss and patchouli providing structure while amber, musk, and civet add depth and skin-like warmth. Honey and vanilla round out the finish, preventing the composition from turning austere. This is a fragrance for someone wanting presence and complexity, not a backdrop scent. It works best in cooler months or evening wear, where its full-bodied florals and spiced base can develop properly. The balance of powder, animalic notes, and woody base gives it surprising versatility despite its boldness. Ysatis suits wearers drawn to The Romantic, The Homesteader, and The Tactician.
What are the notes in Givenchy Ysatis? +
Top: Aldehydes, Bergamot, Brazilian Rosewood, Citruses, Coconut, Galbanum, Mandarin Orange, Orange Blossom, Ylang-Ylang. Heart: Carnation, Iris, Jasmine, Narcissus, Rose, Rum, Tuberose. Base: Amber, Civet, Cloves, Honey, Musk, Oakmoss, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Vanilla, Vetiver.
What fragrance family is Ysatis? +
Givenchy Ysatis belongs to the Chypre fragrance family. It is an EDT.
What other fragrances smell like Givenchy Ysatis? +
Based on shared notes, Van Cleef Arpels First (Amber, Civet, Carnation, Jasmine), Chanel N5 Vintage for women (Amber, Civet, Iris, Jasmine), Chanel No 5 Parfum Baccarat Grand Extrait for women (Amber, Civet, Iris, Jasmine), Chanel No 5 Parfum for women (Amber, Civet, Iris, Jasmine), Loewe Aire Loewe (Musk, Oakmoss, Carnation, Iris) may smell similar to Ysatis.
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Grey market retailers sell authentic fragrances sourced through unofficial distribution -- typically excess inventory from authorized distributors. The product is real and identical to retail. FragranceNet (est. 1997), Jomashop, and MaxAroma are well-established with millions of verified reviews.

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