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ORCHID ACCORD

Botanical name : Stanhopea oculata

ORIGIN
Fresh Flowers

PROCESS
Headspace technology

COMPOSITION
Natural and
man-made materials

A jungle orchid discovered in the wild, Stanhopea Oculata offers its suave scent to YSL BEAUTY thanks to a cutting-edge, environmentally respectful technique that allows perfumers to capture its quintessence without touching the flower.

A close-up of a colorful orchid flower featuring white petals with purple and yellow markings, and a distinctive brownish bloom.

CAPTURING A JUNGLE ORCHID

She may be as graceful and delicate as a hummingbird, but beware: she’s spotted like the jaguar that prowls her native Mexican jungles… The Stanhopea Oculata orchid is a true temptress, enticing pollinators with its suave vanilla-like fragrance – a scent it shares with its sister vanilla, also an orchid vine. It’s no wonder the beautiful exotic bloom fascinates perfumers: it offers them a new, more floral vision of the sensual vanilla note.
Since it is impossible to obtain the essence of orchids through traditional methods of extraction, their scent must be captured through the cutting-edge headspace technology that allows perfumers to reproduce it with a fine-tuned accord of natural essences and man-made molecules.

CAPTURING A JUNGLE ORCHID

She may be as graceful and delicate as a hummingbird, but beware: she’s spotted like the jaguar that prowls her native Mexican jungles… The Stanhopea Oculata orchid is a true temptress, enticing pollinators with its suave vanilla-like fragrance – a scent it shares with its sister vanilla, also an orchid vine. It’s no wonder the beautiful exotic bloom fascinates perfumers: it offers them a new, more floral vision of the sensual vanilla note.
Since it is impossible to obtain the essence of orchids through traditional methods of extraction, their scent must be captured through the cutting-edge headspace technology that allows perfumers to reproduce it with a fine-tuned accord of natural essences and man-made molecules.

“The Orchid accord offers floral, creamy, vanilla and spice notes with slightly smoky facets. It is a perfect match with orange blossom absolute to enhance the sensuality and femininity of Libre’s floral heart, and to dare a more captivating, magnetic, incandescent facet. It naturally found its place in a fragrance that expresses a burning, contrasted sensuality.”

Anne Flipo, Carlos Benaïm

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SOURCING

“The Orchid accord offers floral, creamy, vanilla and spice notes with slightly smoky facets. It is a perfect match with orange blossom absolute to enhance the sensuality and femininity of Libre’s floral heart, and to dare a more captivating, magnetic, incandescent facet. It naturally found its place in a fragrance that expresses a burning, contrasted sensuality.”

Anne Flipo, Carlos Benaïm

HARVEST

From May to December, the fields of India are fragrant with blooming jasmine, but the main season for the harvest is from July to September. Since the scent of jasmine is at its fullest at dawn, before the sun can alter its power, the harvest takes place in the early hours of the morning. Each flower is plucked one by one to avoid damaging the delicate petals, by the deft, delicate fingers of women in colorful saris.

HARVEST

From May to December, the fields of India are fragrant with blooming jasmine, but the main season for the harvest is from July to September. Since the scent of jasmine is at its fullest at dawn, before the sun can alter its power, the harvest takes place in the early hours of the morning. Each flower is plucked one by one to avoid damaging the delicate petals, by the deft, delicate fingers of women in colorful saris.

PROCESS

As soon as they are collected, the tiny blooms are locally processed by volatile solvent extraction, which yields a waxy substance, the concrete. The material is then macerated in alcohol in order to develop its optimal qualities, for a duration normally determined by the perfumer.
Known for millennia, this process, called infusion, is one of the oldest forms of extraction of odorant materials. Revived and finetuned into a cutting-edge process in the 21st century, super-infusion imparts a fresher and more harmonious floral profile, the truest to the natural scent of jasmine in full blossom.
The exclusive Jasmine grandiflorum Superinfusion crafted for YSL Beauty reveals a modern jasmine, both fruity and petally, with a clean, creamy softness highlighting the flower’s radiance. A natural effect for an elegant and enveloping florality, combining volume and a uniquely powerful trail.

A close-up of a cluster of small, white flower buds with green stems, arranged densely together.

PROCESS

As soon as they are collected, the tiny blooms are locally processed by volatile solvent extraction, which yields a waxy substance, the concrete. The material is then macerated in alcohol in order to develop its optimal qualities, for a duration normally determined by the perfumer.
Known for millennia, this process, called infusion, is one of the oldest forms of extraction of odorant materials. Revived and finetuned into a cutting-edge process in the 21st century, super-infusion imparts a fresher and more harmonious floral profile, the truest to the natural scent of jasmine in full blossom.
The exclusive Jasmine grandiflorum Superinfusion crafted for YSL Beauty reveals a modern jasmine, both fruity and petally, with a clean, creamy softness highlighting the flower’s radiance. A natural effect for an elegant and enveloping florality, combining volume and a uniquely powerful trail.

A stylish perfume bottle with a black cap and gold accents sits on a dark marble surface, surrounded by white flowers.

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WHERE TO FIND IT:
LIBRE,
THE EAU DE PARFUM
INTENSE BY
YVES SAINT LAURENT

With LIBRE EDP INTENSE, Yves Saint Laurent’s iconic scent takes on more depth and mystery, intensifying the tension between cool masculinity and smoldering femininity that is the signature of LIBRE EDP.
Unleashing the fragrance’s fiercely sensual nature, LIBRE EDP INTENSE turns up the heat with the flamboyant Orchid accord. Like an intriguingly exotic bloom pinned on a sleekly tailored tuxedo, accenting the femininity of the woman who wears it, the Orchid highlights LIBRE’s sultry seduction.
Its captivating fragrance burns through the melting floral heart of LIBRE INTENSE, matching the honeyed facets of the burning orange blossom with the perfume’s smooth vanilla and glowing amber accord

WHERE TO FIND IT:
LIBRE,
THE EAU DE PARFUM INTENSE BY
YVES SAINT LAURENT

With LIBRE EDP INTENSE, Yves Saint Laurent’s iconic scent takes on more depth and mystery, intensifying the tension between cool masculinity and smoldering femininity that is the signature of LIBRE EDP.
Unleashing the fragrance’s fiercely sensual nature, LIBRE EDP INTENSE turns up the heat with the flamboyant Orchid accord. Like an intriguingly exotic bloom pinned on a sleekly tailored tuxedo, accenting the femininity of the woman who wears it, the Orchid highlights LIBRE’s sultry seduction.
Its captivating fragrance burns through the melting floral heart of LIBRE INTENSE, matching the honeyed facets of the burning orange blossom with the perfume’s smooth vanilla and glowing amber accord.