YSL Beauté held the cosmetics and fragrance brands that Gucci Group acquired with Sanofi Beauté. In addition to Yves Saint Laurent, they included Roger & Gallet and licenses to produce and distribute fragrances for Van Cleef & Arpels, Krizia, Fendi, and Oscar de la Renta. Sales were estimated at $583 million in 1999, with YSL products generating more than 70%.
De Sole moved swiftly to reinforce the senior management team at YSL Beauté, hiring Chantal Roos as president and managing director. Roos returned to YSL Beauté from Beauté Prestige International (BPI), where she successfully launched Issey Miyake and Jean Paul Gaultier Parfums. Prior to founding BPI in 1990, Roos spent 14 years at YSL Parfums, where she was responsible for developing and launching Opium and Paris, two of the company’s most popular fragrance lines