Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Extreme Eau de Parfum Extreme 50ml, (Pack of 1)

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hour later, it starts to lose quite a bit of it's sweetness and it's more of a lightly sweet vanilla with some dark richness to it. These mellow to reveal luminous and unashamedly ultra-white flowers of Jasmine Sambac and Orange Blossom, set against a powerful base of sweet, earthy Patchouli and lashings of heady Vanilla. Finally got my sample of Extreme after YSL accidentally sent out samples of the OG to everyone who applied lol! This is absolutely an autumnal or winter and more of a night-time perfume, I think I would suffocate my coworkers if I wore this to the office in the middle of a hot, humid July hahaha. Alas, in Opium Black Extreme I don't perceive coffee in any way, if not a very hot cappuccino, masterfully served and slightly sweetened (but I drink it bitter, like coffee, for that matter), tasted in blissful peace near a flowering shrubbut, light years away from a coffee, and even from a good one though.

com perfumes magazine - All Rights Reserved - do not copy anything without prior written permission. It changes a lot: because the vanilla and florals are fairly more subdued in this one in favor of the coffee and cocoa notes, the scent profile becomes far more sensual while retaining the elegance of the original.If the other flankers are sweeter than this one then i probably will not like them, this one is already pushing the envelope.

Black Opium is one of the best examples for a designer fragrance with lots of flankers which are almost all very close to the EDP.I don't get any note of chocolate/cacao coming through, and definitely no vanilla to tone it all down. That being said, I've just been out to dine with my in laws, and half of all the females in the restaurant smelled of Black opium. I really want to like this one, but i can't help but feel like Black Opium (and its flankers) are one of those "basic" fragrances, feels kind of one-dimensional in a way with the hyper sweet white florals taking the spotlight. This is also where I see it start to be a bit more "masculine," but honestly it's completely fine on a woman and is more perhaps "edgy".