It all started with the creation of the Opium perfume in 1977. As soon as it was released, this juice did not fail to be noticed, causing scandal while arousing desire. Banned in some countries, adored to the point of creating stockouts elsewhere, Opium quickly became one of Yves Saint-Laurent’s most emblematic juices . Addressing a new generation of women, it became Black Opium in 2014. Since its release, this perfume has never stopped reinventing itself and thus delivers multiple versions of its addictive scent.
2014 Black Opium YSL
Black Opium, a rebellious fragrance
Black Opium is a juice for all women today, both elegant and sophisticated while being urban and rebellious. Similar to an experimental juice, it is unlike any other.
It characterizes Yves Saint-Laurent’s love for risk taking. Black Opium flirts with the forbidden and takes us on a mystical journey to the frontier of the illegal.
Black Opium, a gourmet fragrance of the forbidden
Black Opium is the scent of all prohibitions. However, he is very attractive. It arises from a chiaroscuro association and appears as electrifying as a sip of caffeine. It must be said that coffee is really present in his recipe.
He is electrified by the spicy presence of pink berries. White flowers soften it all. Black Opium notably contains orange blossom and jasmine accompanied by a fusing pear. Vanilla reinforces the gluttony of the whole. Finally, Black Opium ends with the elegant depth of cedar and patchouli.
Black Opium Intense
The electric and intoxicating vibration of Black Opium Intense
If Opium made the heyday of elegant and definitely trendy women in the 80s, its scented daughter Black Opium does not have to be ashamed as this pretty intoxicating floral coffee has continued to seduce since its release in 2014!
It must be said that with four talented perfumers to have bent over her cradle, the young lady Black Opium already had everything to please: solar and shimmering flowers, delicacies both sweet and sensual or even opulent woody depths worthy. of his famous “mother” of the 80s. What is more, carried by ambassadors as rock as charming, Edie Campbell and now Zoé Kravitz, Black Opium never ceases to intoxicate us with its surprising contrasts and constantly renewed in equally magnificent variations.
With Black Opium Intense, we could have expected a fire of woody sensuality, but the Yves Saint Laurent house preferred to leave room for doubt and play with the subtlety of densified hot-cold contrasts to come and seduce us even more. Released in January 2019, Black Opium Intense will follow the same path to glory as its elders while having a nice olfactory surprise …
Black Opium Intense blue absinthe for an unprecedented icy freshness
“A gourmet fruity oriental shot for a powerful and sensual trail at the heart of orange blossom and liquorice absolute.
Magnetic? Terribly… ”Yves Saint Laurent for Black Opium Intense.
The idea for this Black Opium Intense was therefore to play on the scorching coffee accord in order to make it even more radically opposed to the freshness of the head. And this is how perfumers Nathalie Lorson Olivier Cresp, Marie Salamagne and Honorine Blanc made the choice to start Black Opium Intense with a note of blue wormwood that would blow us its icy wind tinged with blackberry to make us shiver. At the heart, the atmosphere warms up thanks to the emblematic flowers of the Black Opium range, namely the opulent orange blossom and the beautiful jasmine. The coffee gets hot and directs us with its force towards intense base notes where sandalwood, liquorice and vanilla compete in heat to create an unforgettable and terribly sensual trail for the Black Opium Intense woman.
Black Opium Intense will therefore know how to lead the heat and cold to take us in opposite shivers towards an irresistible addiction.
The 2015 Black Opium Eau de Toilette
YSL Black Opium is refreshed in an Eau de Toilette
Like any great self-respecting perfume, Black Opium exists both in the form of an Eau De Parfum and an Eau de Toilette. If the composition of these two fragrances remains substantially the same, the concentration of fragrant product is not identical.
Thus, Black Opium Eau de Toilette is more diluted than its predecessor and leaves behind a fresher and less tenacious sensation.
The clarity of Black Opium Eau de Toilette
L’Eau de Toilette Black Opium se caractérise par une extrême sensation de fraîcheur. Elle s’envole sur le souffle acidulé d’une mandarine verte électrisée d’un shot de cassis plus incisif.
Son démarrage s’adoucit ensuite au contact de fleurs moins capiteuses qu’autrefois. L’Eau de Toilette Black Opium délivre un souffle réconfortant semblable à celui d’un thé au jasmin.
Black Opium Nuit Blanche Yves Saint Laurent de 2016
Black Opium Nuit Blanche, le parfum d’une sensualité plus mystérieuse
Cette fois, Black Opium Nuit Blanche nous entraîne au cœur d’une nuit noire, moment où tout devient possible et où les créatures les plus séductrices sont de sortie.
Black Opium Nuit Blanche est un parfum électrisant et hypnotique qui place plus que jamais la séduction au centre de toutes choses. Il nous livre l’image d’une féminité plus exubérante, à la fois libre et audacieuse, sans aucune limite.
Black Opium Nuit Blanche, un jeu de clair-obscur Yves Saint Laurent
Comme pour créer la surprise, Black Opium Nuit Blanche joue sur les oppositions. Il est un véritable concentré d’énergie qui rassemble des nuances opposées. La douceur de la vapeur de riz est électrisée au contact du poivre. La célèbre note de café de Black Opium refait surface en son cœur. Elle est illuminée de fleur d’oranger.
Enfin, la sensualité animale du musc enveloppe le tout et s’accompagne d’une vanille plus liquoreuse et charnelle.
Black Opium Floral Shock YSL de 2017
Black Opium Floral Shock, un parfum plus lumineux
Si Black Opium est devenu plus ténébreux en 2016, il s’est en revanche largement illuminé en 2017 grâce à Black Opium Floral Shock. Ce parfum est décrit comme un « café floral et solaire ».
Il s’agit d’une fragrance que l’on imagine portée par une femme rayonnante mais non moins rebelle. Tout en dualité, Black Opium Floral Shock est un parfum rempli de charme et doté de multiples facettes.
La recette solaire YSL de Black Opium Floral Shock
Si la note de café de Black Opium est toujours présente, elle est cette fois plus fraîche que d’habitude et parcourue d’un halo solaire très lumineux.
Black Opium Floral Shock contient plusieurs fleurs blanches à l’instar du freesia, de la fleur d’oranger et du gardénia. La bergamote qui confère un souffle plus vif et végétal. Enfin, le tout repose sur un lit sensuel de musc.
