Black Opium, from Yves Saint Laurent was released in 2014. The perfumer behind this creation is Honorine Blanc, Marie Salamagne, Nathalie Lorson, and Olivier Cresp. It has the top notes of Orange Blossom, Pear, and Pink Pepper, middle notes of Almond, Coffee, Jasmine, and Licorice, and base notes of Cashmere wood, Cedarwood, Patchouli, and Vanilla.
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.