1 5

CHEZ PIERRE

Freedom

Freedom

Inspired by Libre, Yves Saint Laurent

50 ml glass bottle (Eau de Parfum)

133,00 lei
848,00 lei 133,00 lei
Sale Sold out

Inspired by: Libre, Yves Saint Laurent
  • Vegan
  • Cruelty Free
  • Handcrafted
3 for €55 SAVE EVEN MORE Up to 90.09% savings on a perfume collection 3 for €55 €600 VIEW →

🇫🇷 French Perfumes!😶‍🌫 Long Lasting and Intense Scents!👍 Fraction of the Cost of Designer Fragrances

PRODUCT DETAILS

Freedom is an eau de parfum, 50 ml, with around 20% fragrance oil. It costs €25, the same as every scent we make, whatever the original fragrance behind it. Free shipping applies on orders from €49, with delivery in 2 to 5 working days.

Libre is sold as an eau de parfum, and Freedom matches that concentration, stronger than a typical eau de toilette and more intense than a lighter scent could ever be.

Longevity runs 5 to 9 hours. French fragrance oils, handmade in small batches, vegan and cruelty free, never tested on animals. You have 15 days to exchange it if it isn't right for you.

NOTES

Top notes

Lavender, mandarin, blackcurrant, petitgrain

Heart notes

Orange blossom, jasmine

Base notes

Vanilla, musk, cedarwood, ambergris

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Freedom is our perfume dupe of Libre by Yves Saint Laurent, made for anyone who wants that sharp lavender-and-orange-blossom contrast as an everyday scent rather than something saved for special occasions. It opens on lavender, mandarin, blackcurrant and petitgrain, moves into an orange blossom and jasmine heart, and settles on vanilla, musk, cedarwood and ambergris.

The lavender accord is what people notice first, a note usually kept for masculine fragrances, pushed straight into this feminine composition and softened by orange blossom underneath. The citrus and herbal opening fades within twenty minutes, then the florals take over, and the vanilla base builds slowly through the afternoon so the trail keeps shifting.

This fragrance dupe holds its shape well into the evening, and it is one of the more convincing lavender dupes we sell. Some people search for a Libre alternative, others just want affordable perfumes and fragrances that carry a luxury feel into everyday wear, and either way Freedom is one of our better scents for that lavender mood. Between the citrus opening and the base, the orange blossom heart is where the middle notes sit, holding the whole structure together.

View full details

Perfume concentration

EDT, EDP or EXDP - what you are actually buying

The difference between these labels is not quality but how much perfume oil sits in the bottle. That decides how long the scent stays on your skin and how far it travels.

EDT Eau de Toilette 5 to 15% perfume oil

The lightest of the three. It opens fresh and fast, but fades after three to five hours. Pleasant in heat and at the office, as long as you top it up during the day.

Our choiceEDP Eau de Parfum ~20% perfume oil

The middle ground that became the standard. It lasts six to eight hours, one spray in the morning is enough, and the scent stays recognisable into the evening without filling the room.

EXDP Extrait de Parfum 20 to 40% perfume oil

The densest form, worn in drops, and it can last over ten hours. In return it loses that easy opening, and the price per bottle climbs the most.

Why we chose EDP

Every Chez Pierre perfume is made in Eau de Parfum concentration, with 20% perfume oil. That is not by accident.

An eau de toilette would mean carrying the bottle with you and refreshing the scent after lunch. An extrait would push the price up, and only someone counting hours would notice the gain. EDP sits exactly in between: one spray in the morning carries the whole working day, and the scent opens and develops instead of settling on the skin at once.

So we don't make lighter and pricier versions of the same scent. We make one, in the concentration where that scent works best.

How a perfume is measured

Longevity, projection and sillage

Three things describe every perfume, whatever the price or the name on the bottle. Once you separate them, it is easier to say what you actually want from a scent.

01

Longevity

How many hours the scent stays on skin

Measured from the moment you spray to the moment you can no longer smell it up close. It depends on the concentration, but also on your skin: on dry skin every perfume lasts less, so a dab of unscented cream before spraying helps.

02

Projection

How far it travels around you

Strongest in the first hour, it tells you how much space the scent takes up. Big projection is great for evenings and colder days, while at the office or in a meeting it usually gets in the way more than it helps.

03

Sillage

The trail you leave behind

Pronounced „see-yazh“, it means the trail a scent leaves behind you. It is the reason someone turns around as you pass. A perfume can last a long time and still leave a small trail, and the other way round.

Strong is not the same as good. A perfume with huge projection quickly tires both you and the people around you, while one without any trail stays your own private thing.

That is why every one of our perfume descriptions says how it wears, not only how it smells.

CHOOSE YOUR LIFESYLE

Freedom

Inspired by: Libre, Yves Saint Laurent

Freedom works well from spring through summer, when the citrus opening and orange blossom heart get room to breathe, though the vanilla base keeps it warm enough for winter evenings too. One or two sprays in the morning usually carries it through the whole day.

It's built for her first, a feminine choice, though the lavender accord is sharp enough that plenty of men wear it too, which makes it a fair pick for him as well and closer to unisex than most floral fragrances on the market. Read any review of lavender-forward scents and staying power is the first thing anyone mentions.

Choose our Inspiration

Yves Saint Laurent, usually shortened to YSL, is a French fashion house built on the idea of freedom in how women dress, and Libre carries that idea into fragrance since it launched in 2019. It quickly became one of YSL's defining releases and now sits firmly in luxury territory rather than among mass-market perfumes.

Most people just call it Libre, or simply YSL Libre when they want to be clear which house made it. Plenty of perfume dupes have been built around it since, all chasing that unmistakable lavender-and-orange-blossom contrast, and it shows up in nearly every YSL fragrance review worth reading.

Why choose us?

Freedom is our alternative to Libre by YSL. This dupe smells like the original and is filled by hand in small batches using French fragrance oils.

We only make it as an eau de parfum, since that's the concentration this kind of lavender-forward composition needs to last. If it isn't similar to what you remember, send it back within 15 days and we'll sort an exchange.