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Black Opium smells like someone squeezed Strawberry Shortcake’s sweet freckled face until the top of her plastic molded head popped off and they smeared the cloying, syrupy ichor that dribbled out all over their body, and then they rolled around in a heap of rotting jasmine that reached the point in the flower's lifespan where the blooms stop smelling beautiful and immediately start to smell like a cracked bucket of pee-stained underwear. Thus adorned in a doll’s blood-jam and sticky toilet flowers, the individual boldly assures themselves they are sexy as hell and heads out to the club. Oh, to have the confidence of a person wearing one of the world’s shittiest perfumes.
It is an okay perfume but I am not sure why it got so much more successful than its infinitely more unique, mystical and special (and very unlucky) shortlived predecessor, Belle d'Opium by Yves Saint Laurent . This one has nothing in common with the classic Opium Eau de Parfum 2009 by Yves Saint Laurent . It is a warm sweet gourmand. I also can't understand for the life of me why it is advertised as a perfect rock star vibe or a clubbing perfume. It's not dark or edgy at all, I would wear this to grab a cup of hot chocolate (I like the aroma but I hate the taste of coffee, so chocolate it is!) and read a book by the fireplace! The misleading name and advertising puts me off. It's not black, not dark, not opium, not oriental enough (or at all, if you ask me), not necessarily for a "special occasion or night out". It is sweet, warm, cozy and sexy though.