Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 25 ml. or 0.87 oz. Flacon, Flacon Diamant, Parfum Extrait, 1983, Paris, France ..

Yves Saint Laurent is the French fashion house founded by Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent. The house and designer are often abbreviated as YSL. Laurent's career in fashion began at the tender age of 17, when he served as assistant to Christian Dior. With Dior's death four years later, Laurent was named head of the house of Dior at just 21 years of age. Still a young man when the Algerian War of Independence broke out, Laurent was drafted into the army in 1960 and lost his position at Dior. Military service and despair over the loss of his design position resulted in a hospital stay. After a brief period of recuperation, Laurent started his own fashion company and went on to become one of the most influential fashion designers of the 1960s and 1970s.

Laurent became known for his exquisitely-tailored women's suits, and is credited with creating the first women's tuxedo. The first designer to announce his expansion from couture into ready-to-wear, he is credited with making chic ready-to-wear fashions available to the mass market, and for making ready-to-wear a reputable business for designers. Laurent's ready-to-wear line was sold in boutiques named Rive Gauche, which would later be commemorated with a perfume. Yves Saint Laurent remained active as the collection's main designer through the late 1980s. After his retirement, a series of designers including Alber Elbaz, Tom Ford and Stefano Pilati have produced collections for the brand. Yves Saint Laurent passed away in 2008.

Cosmetics and perfumes have long been included in the designer's offerings. The house's first fragrance, Y for women, was launched in 1964. Y and several other launches by YSL, including Rive Gauche (1970), Opium (1977), men's scent Kourous (1981), and Paris (1983) have become modern classics of the perfume world and remain best-sellers.

Yves Saint Laurent introduced his iconic Paris perfume on December 4, 1983. The fragrance was first previewed earlier that year on July 28, 1983, during the Autumn-Winter haute couture fashion show at the Hôtel Inter-Continental in Paris. 

The floral, rose-and-violet scent was crafted by master perfumer Sophia Grojsman as a personal tribute to the city of Paris and its women.  Conceived as a romantic "scented love letter," it featured top notes of rose and mimosa, a heart of violet and iris, and a warm base of sandalwood and musk. 

This gorgeous perfume was unveiled at the Salon Impérial of the Hôtel Inter-Continental, where model Mounia Orosemane carried the bottle down the runway in a feathered wedding gown.

Top Notes are Rose, Mimosa, Hyacinth, Geranium, Green Notes, Orange Blossom, Nasturtium, Bergamot, Hawthorn, and Cassia 
Heart Notes are Rose, Violet, Lily, Lily of the Valley, Jasmine, Ylang Ylang, Orris Root, and Linden (lime) Blossom 
Base Notes are Iris, Sandalwood, Musk, Amber, Heliotrope, Cedar Wood, and Oak Moss

The perfume is named after Paris, the adored city of Yves Saint Laurent, who created it as a tribute to the Parisiennes who are always elegant, romantic, vivacious, ironic, simple and charming.

Offered here is a now quite rare 25 ml. flacon of this charming feminine perfume. Designed to look like a multi-faceted cut diamond, paying tribute to the sparkle of the Eiffel Tower and the City of Light .. It is also known as the Flacon Diamant because of the beautiful multi-faceted diamond shaped stopper. I think it is gorgeous ..