Yves Saint LaurentYSL perfume prices, tracked daily

Yves Saint Laurent is the Paris couture house founded by the designer and his partner Pierre Bergé, and its perfumes carry a mix of provocation and polish. Fragrance and makeup are made under the YSL Beauty name by L'Oréal, which holds the beauty license, while the fashion side trades as Saint Laurent. The nine scents tracked here stretch from Opium, the spicy 1977 oriental, to recent launches built for a younger audience: Black Opium, a 2014 new composition under that name, the lavender-and-orange-blossom Libre, and the men's lines L'Homme, La Nuit de L'Homme, Y and MYSLF. With so many concentrations and flankers in circulation, prices on Amazon US can vary widely between listings that look almost identical, which is what this page sets out to compare.

For YSL perfume on Amazon US, we follow 30 bottles across 9 fragrances: 14 masculine and 16 feminine. La Nuit de L'Homme Eau de Toilette in 200 ml is the lowest per milliliter today, at $0.76.

3 of the 30 bottles have a listing sold by Amazon or Yves Saint Laurent directly. Looking for YSL cologne? The men's cologne page sorts masculine bottles across every house.

History

Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé founded the house in Paris in 1961, with the first collection following in January 1962, and its logo was designed in 1963 by the poster artist A. M. Cassandre. Wikipedia lists the women's perfume Y in 1964, Rive Gauche in 1971, Opium in 1977 and Paris in 1983. Opium was composed by Jean Amic and Jean-Louis Sieuzac. In 1993 the company was sold to the pharmaceutical group Sanofi, and in 1999 it was bought by Gucci Group, now part of Kering. Since 2008 L'Oréal has produced and distributed the house's fragrances and beauty products under a long-term license. Its later fragrance launches include L'Homme in 2006, credited to Anne Flipo, Pierre Wargnye and Dominique Ropion; La Nuit de L'Homme in 2009; Black Opium in 2014; Mon Paris in 2016; a men's fragrance reusing the name Y, whose eau de parfum Parfumo dates to 2018 and credits to Dominique Ropion; Libre in 2019, created by Anne Flipo and Carlos Benaïm; Libre Intense in 2020; and MYSLF for men in 2023.

The Yves Saint Laurent style

YSL fragrances often play with contrast, borrowing codes from one tradition and turning them around, such as lavender, usually found in men's scents, reworked for women in Libre. Spices, vanilla, amber and woods tend to anchor the base.

The lowest price per ml

La Nuit de L'Homme Eau de Toilette 200 ml at $0.76, MYSLF Eau de Parfum 150 ml at $0.86, Opium Eau de Toilette 100 ml at $0.98, L'Homme Eau de Toilette 100 ml at $0.99 and MYSLF Eau de Parfum 100 ml at $1.09. These are the five cheapest Yves Saint Laurent bottles per milliliter today; the most expensive is Libre Intense Eau de Parfum 30 ml at $3.17, 4.2 times the cheapest.

How Yves Saint Laurent prices vary by strength

Strength changes the price within the house: Parfum (9 bottles, median $1.53 per ml), Eau de Parfum (16 bottles, median $1.61 per ml) and Eau de Toilette (5 bottles, median $0.99 per ml). Compare the same fragrance across strengths on its own page rather than across fragrances, since a different formula is a different product.

Buying Yves Saint Laurent on Amazon

3 of 30 bottles have a listing sold by Amazon or by Yves Saint Laurent, the sellers that carry their own name on the listing; no seller type is a guarantee, so a reseller's ratings and returns policy still matter. For the other 27, we have seen no listing from Amazon or the house, so check the seller's ratings and read our guide on how to tell if perfume is fake before you buy. Prices are checked once a day and every table shows when. The 30 Yves Saint Laurent bottles span 30 ml to 200 ml and $69.96 to $151.92, so a larger bottle can cost more in total while costing less per milliliter.

The fragrances we track

• Black Opium Dating from 2014, this women's scent carries the Opium name into a new generation as a separate composition. Parfumo credits Nathalie Lorson, Marie Salamagne, Olivier Cresp and Honorine Blanc and lists orange blossom, pink pepper, coffee, jasmine, vanilla, patchouli and cedar. 7 bottles, from $1.17/ml.
• La Nuit de L'Homme Introduced in 2009 and credited to Anne Flipo, Pierre Wargnye and Dominique Ropion, this evening-oriented sibling of L'Homme opens on cardamom and bergamot, with lavender, black pepper and cedarwood in the heart and a base of tonka bean and vetiver. 4 bottles, from $0.76/ml.
• L'Homme Released in 2006 with Anne Flipo, Pierre Wargnye and Dominique Ropion credited, this scent lists ginger, bergamot and lemon, then violet, basil and white pepper, over tonka bean, cedarwood and vetiver. It later spawned branches including La Nuit de L'Homme. 2 bottles, from $0.99/ml.
• Opium Jean Amic and Jean-Louis Sieuzac composed this oriental-spicy perfume, introduced in 1977. Parfumo lists clove, bergamot, coriander, plum and jasmine, then carnation, cinnamon, rose and sandalwood, over myrrh, frankincense and opoponax. 3 bottles, from $0.98/ml.
• MYSLF Launched in 2023 and credited to Christophe Raynaud, Daniela Andrier and Antoine Maisondieu, it lists Calabrian bergamot and bergamot leaf, Tunisian orange blossom, then woods and patchouli. 6 bottles, from $0.86/ml.
• Mon Paris Released in 2016, Mon Paris is credited to Olivier Cresp, Harry Frémont and Dora Baghriche-Arnaud among others. It lists strawberry, raspberry and bergamot, then peony and jasmine, over patchouli, ambrox and white musk. 3 bottles, from $1.16/ml.
• Libre Released in 2019 and credited to Anne Flipo and Carlos Benaïm, Libre lists mandarin, blackcurrant and petitgrain, then French lavender, Moroccan orange blossom and jasmine sambac, over Bourbon vanilla, musk, ambergris and cedar. 2 bottles, from $1.53/ml.
• Libre Intense Released in 2020 and credited to the same perfumers as Libre, this version lists bergamot, French lavender and mandarin, then orange blossom, jasmine sambac and orchid, over Venezuelan tonka bean, Bourbon vanilla, ambergris and vetiver. 2 bottles, from $1.53/ml.
• Y Reviving a name first used for a 1964 women's perfume, the men's Y lists lemon, ginger and pepper, then juniper berry, lavender, peppermint and geranium, over frankincense and cedarwood. The original Y, an eau de toilette, launched in 2017, and Parfumo dates the Y eau de parfum to 2018, credited to Dominique Ropion. 1 bottle, from $1.77/ml.