YSL Y EDP is the modern crowd-pleaser blueprint: apple, ginger, sage, amberwood — clean enough for the office, sweet enough for a date. Lattafa Fakhar read that blueprint very, very carefully.
Opening: nearly identical apple-ginger sparkle; Fakhar's is a shade sharper for the first ten minutes before settling into the same lane.
Heart and base: Y stays crisper longer; Fakhar drifts sweeter and warmer into the drydown — some testers preferred it, calling Y "a bit soapy" by comparison.
Performance: even on longevity, Fakhar louder in projection. On a white T-shirt the next morning, both were still faintly there.
Match score: 87% — among the closest designer dupes we've tested. The €100 difference buys you a nicer bottle and the letter Y.