# Black Opium

**Brand:** Yves Saint Laurent · **Perfumer:** Honorine Blanc, Marie Salamagne, Nathalie Lorson, Olivier Cresp · **Year:** 2014
**Rating:** 3.3 / 5 (4 ratings) · **Popularity:** #296

## Notes
**Top:** Fiori d'arancio, Pera, Pepe rosa
**Heart:** Mandorla, Caffè, Gelsomino, Liquirizia
**Base:** Legno di cashmere, Legno di cedro, Patchouli, Vaniglia

## About Yves Saint Laurent
La linea di profumi di Yves Saint Laurent è stata lanciata nel 1964 con Y per le donne, segnando l'ingresso del marchio nelle fragranze di lusso. Profumi iconici come Black Opium, Libre e La Nuit de L'Homme sono bestseller globali, noti per il loro fascino audace, seducente e senza tempo.

## Top reviews
- ★4/5 — Fall, Winter — Casual, Date — "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…"
- ★1/5 — "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…"

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