Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent
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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The mandarin zings with immediate brightness, crisp and almost tart, whilst rosemary adds a herbal prickle that feels almost medicinal. Within seconds, the oud begins its infiltration, dulling that citrus optimism and introducing a woody shadow that makes this feel immediately more serious than the first whiff suggested.
By the second hour, oud and vetiver have taken full command, transforming the composition into something distinctly earthy and resinous. The amber emerges as a soft, almost powdery undertone, never sweet, whilst the spice accords create a subtle warmth that feels more like incense smoke than culinary spice.
The fragrance collapses into its base with stunning rapidity—mandragora and musk settle into an intimate skin scent, woody and faintly dusty, with only the faintest amber sweetness lingering like a ghost. Within four hours, detection becomes genuinely challenging; this becomes a scent you know is there rather than one anyone else will notice.
M7 is a fragrance that refuses to whisper. Alberto Morillas has constructed something deliberately austere—a composition where citrus brightness is immediately colonised by woody austerity and medicinal spice. The mandarin and bergamot opening promises warmth, but the oud and vetiver swiftly impose their darker agenda, transforming what could have been a cheerful citrus into something altogether more contemplative.
This is a scent for someone who appreciates dissonance. The rosemary cuts through with herbal sharpness, preventing the amber and mandragora base from ever becoming conventionally cosy. There's a resinous, almost pharmaceutical quality—as though you've rubbed your wrists with cedarwood and incense rather than applied perfume. The musk provides a skin-scent anchor, but it's a muted one, subordinate to the woody and spicy framework.
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