Yves Saint Laurent L'Homme Eau de Toilette 100ml Spray Tova Beverly Hills Cypress oil and cedarwood frame

Cypress oil and cedarwood frame a green

Two sprays in the morning is the sensible amount

Works on its own for a five-minute morning or layers under something darker for evening

reapply mid-afternoon if the sea-salt top notes fade and you want that fresh hit again

warmed through with sandalwood

Yves Saint Laurent L'Homme Eau de Toilette 100ml Spray Tova Beverly Hills Cypress oil and cedarwood frameCedarwood and ambroxan the dry, almost papery base that makes L'Homme feel like a shirt rather than a fragrance. There's citrus in the opening, a flicker of anise in the middle, but the wood is what stays, what builds slightly over hours. 100ml EDT, easy to reach for on a morning. Four to six hours on skin before it fades; longer on clothes if you've worn it properly. Not the kind of thing that announces itself the kind that lands when someone's close