ComparisonsSep 6, 2026
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Yves Saint Laurent · 2014
The coffee-and-vanilla scent people reach for on nights out.
Leads with an unexpected hit of bitter coffee against sweet vanilla, cut with pear and white flowers so it doesn't read as a straight dessert. It settles into a dark, warm vanilla-patchouli drydown that's noticeably heavier and sweeter than the florals that came before it.
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Rosso Veneziano shares the orange blossom, vanilla, cedar and patchouli of the drydown, but drops coffee for a thicker tuberose-and-frankincense bouquet.
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