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History
Yazemeenah is a first name before it is a fragrance. It belongs to Yazemeenah Rossi, a French-American model and photographer who became a singular figure in the image world, grew up in Corsica, and only took up modeling in her thirties. In 2022, Maria Candida Gentile composed this eau de parfum for her, out of a direct collaboration with the muse. The bottle is not a fashion portrait but a landscape: the island of childhood, caught in spring as the maquis wakes up.
The perfumer, Grasse-trained and committed to a perfumery of naturalness, translates what she calls the light of Corsica. The thread is the citron, the thick-skinned citrus the island turned into a centuries-old specialty. A frequent confusion is worth clearing up here: the house’s English site renders the Italian “cedro” as “cedar”, suggesting cedarwood, when it is in fact the fruit. The stated family, citrus and green, confirms the reading.
Around the citrus, Yazemeenah unfolds its Mediterranean emblems. Fig lends its milky green flesh; honeysuckle and jasmine, the island’s flowers, radiate a solar clarity; a sea-salt accord evokes the spray. Then comes immortelle, the honey-and-curry helichrysum that carpets the Corsican hillsides, extended by cistus-labdanum and frankincense, which close the trail on a resinous, glowing warmth.
Yazemeenah is more than a fragrance: the house built a full collection around it, including candles and body care. On release, enthusiast databases such as Fragrantica filed it under citrus aromatic; Maria Candida Gentile herself claims it as a solar citrus green, carried by a vegan formula free of phthalates, parabens and synthetic colorants.
Olfactory pyramid
Yazemeenah reads in three movements, from the saline flash of citron to the resinous warmth of immortelle and incense.
The through-line is Mediterranean light: a citrus green that keeps its freshness even inside a honeyed, smoky base.
Olfactory profile
Yazemeenah is a solar citrus rather than a tart one. The citron opens bright and zesty, but the sea-salt accord and calamus anchor it at once in an island, seaside imagination, far from a plain cologne.
The heart tips the composition toward a fleshy green. Milky fig marries honeysuckle and jasmine in a high-noon clarity. This is where Yazemeenah finds its originality: a citrus that turns floral and fruity without ever growing heavy.
The base signs the Corsican anchor. Immortelle, with its honey-and-curry facet, blends with cistus-labdanum and frankincense to draw a resinous, warm and faintly sacred trail. That base explains the fragrance’s staying power, notable for so luminous a scent, and the medium intensity the house claims for it.
Key characteristics
When and where to wear
Yazemeenah is a warm-season, daytime fragrance. Its citrus, saline clarity is made for spring and summer, while the immortelle and frankincense base let it hold into the shoulder seasons. The trail stays measured and luminous, in line with its medium intensity.
Usage markers
Seasonal fit
| Season | Fit | Critical notes |
|---|---|---|
| Spring | ★★★★ | Its prime season. |
| Summer | ★★★★ | The saline citrus comes alive. |
| Autumn | ★★★☆ | The immortelle base takes over. |
| Winter | ★★☆☆ | A touch bright in the cold. |
Context fit
| Setting | Fit | Usage recommendation |
|---|---|---|
| Everyday | ★★★★ | Its reference use. |
| Office | ★★★★ | Luminous and discreet. |
| Vacations | ★★★★ | Its natural terrain, by the sea. |
| Evening | ★★★☆ | In mild weather. |
| Sport | ★★★☆ | Fresh and bracing. |
Similar perfumes
The Mediterranean citrus green has its neighbors; a few share its island, fig-tree imagination.
| Perfume | House · year | Why it is close |
|---|---|---|
| Philosykos | Diptyque · 1996 | The benchmark fig by Olivia Giacobetti, leaf and fig milk; the same green, solar clarity, without Yazemeenah’s saline, immortelle anchor. |
| Ninfeo Mio | Goutal · 2013 | A Mediterranean garden of fig tree and citrus; a kinship of island, luminous atmosphere. |
| Sables | Goutal · 1985 | Immortelle as a soliflore, honey and curry, to extend the note that signs Yazemeenah’s base. |
Common questions
See also
Sources
- Official Maria Candida Gentile site, Yazemeenah page (Italian, French and English editions)
- Maria Candida Gentile training dossier (“The Collection”), Yazemeenah olfactory notes
- Official Maria Candida Gentile presentation, master perfumer
- Maria Candida Gentile, official Yazemeenah page
- Fragrantica, Yazemeenah entry (2022)
- Parfumo, Yazemeenah entry