It’s tempting, after smelling Yves Saint Laurent’s Manifesto, to ponder what the brief for the perfume might have been, that is, what sort of declaration it is supposed to make. “Say as little as possible so as not to offend anyone”? “Say what everybody else is saying so you won’t stand out in the crowd”? And what is with Yves Saint Laurent these days, anyway? Have they got a bad case of the jitters after Elle and Parisienne?1
Manifesto is a sweet but clean floral musk layered over a dusky but likewise clean patchouli base with a dollop of vanilla cream…
