Yves Saint Laurent Opium Homme 100ml EDT Men Spray

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It was pretty intoxicating back then and it is even more so now, with all these generic smelling men's frags like Bleu de Chanel and Sauvage dominating the market.

I can't remember exactly what the notes were like since this was on my shelf 15 years ago but what I remember is that OPH smells like lavender with some peppery sweetness in the dry down . I might give this one a 8,5/10 because the opening i find too spicy, it balances out later on where the vanilla comes to save the scent. There's nothing like southern comfort, wearing a tuxedo, eating vanilla cupcakes and drinking a spicy-sweet iced liqueur. Starts heavy like Dior Fahrenheit, not pleasant, but quickly goes to heavy vanilla base with black currant reaching out and stinging your nostrils. Despite the sales assistant advice, who really wanted to push me some other fragrance, I bought my first 30ml bottle.It’s pretty incredible, I mean this would easily be one of the most well formulated fragrances I’ve ever smelt.

The scent does not change much over time which is a good thing because you will have the beautiful feeling of the opening until the end. Normally I like unisex citrus scents like Creed Milesime Imperial or Aventus, and this Opium is completely masculine, but, unlike Sauvage, in an understated but substantial way. Yves Saint Laurent is a symbol of uniqueness, creativity and luxury, both in fashion and the world of cosmetics and perfumes.

The black pepper note is slightly stronger than the blue ginger although the latter kind of gives an Eastern tonality to the fragrance. Every fragrance from YSL feels like a magnum opus, which made the whole house exceptional in maintaining supreme quality and always releasing only the best possible fragrance a perfumer could compose.

For example yesterday morning i had one squirt to the chest of Valentino Uomo Absolu and 2 squirts of Opium around the same area. This is rich, polished, spicey, superbly blended, elegant, and harkens to the past but remains firmly in today.Because I started my journey in my late 20's, there's many fragrances that I'd probably smelled years and years ago but don't know. For me it has very good longevity and acceptable sillage , Also its more into classical perfume than the modern one so if you are not into classical perfumes than you need to try it first . I also generally don't like powdery scents, but this one is just so well balanced with everything it's doing.