Black Opium Eau de Toilette

I like black opium edp,I love nuit blanche version but edt version never caught my attention just because of it's notes list.I can't imagine or love a black opium without vanilla.also I usually try to avoid blackcurrant and it happens to be pretty dominant here,more important,I believe in the sweeter the better,the heavier the better,so edt version didn't seem to be love material for me but you know,I'm very curious when it's about flankers and this brown bottle looks very eye catching so I picked up the tester and sprayed it on a paper,simply to compare it side by side with it's siblings and voila,it happened.I can hear love even before ringing my heart's bell What made me fall for BO edt was it's pear.pear was a note I never cared about but after Katy Perry meow which is a lovely combination of pear and vanilla to my nose,I started to admire a good vanilla scent with pear.edt opens with obvious similarities to edp but not as heavy.pear shines through black opium DNA giving it a sparkly fruity freshness which is very likable.I can't pick up much black current and I don't miss it.this very fresh pear-dominant stage doesn't last long and it's a pity.however pear remains as one of the most prominent notes but in a sugary,sweet form.although there's no vanilla listed here,I can easily pick it up but it's not as heavy in vanilla as edp.lack of patchouli in this version keeps it less heavy,still there's enough woods in base to anchor this sweet pear-vanilla-white floral combo.I can't detect tea or any other green notes in edt version and however it's not as heavy as edp in vanilla and coffee,it's still sweet,gourmandish and warm and unbearable in hot summer days Staying power and sillage both seem to be good,not as strong as edp but still satisfying For me this is a little lighter BO edp with a hint of Katy Perry meow naunces so no wonder I love it and am very happy to receive it as a early valentine gift.it's a love in opening and a big like in it's drydown This 1.6 oz bottle is so easy to hold in hand that it made me decide to buy nuit blanche in this size not the bigger bottle ❤❤❤❤❤ Edit: after using it for a while, it's something between like and meh for me now. I still like the opening part which is like a slightly less sweet, more fresh and fruitier version of EDP but after half an hour it dries down to a fruity shampoo kind of scent.

Man, something must've happened to BO EDT in the last couple years, bc I bought this in 2016, and the performance on this thing was/is great. It's literally about 90% the sillage and longevity of the EDP. Scent-wise, it's missing some of the warmth & depth that I love in BO EDP (mainly the vanilla), but there's something very satisfying about this. The main difference is in the beginning, where the black currant & citrus are prevalent. You don't immediately get hit with the coffee, like in the EDP. In the drydown, it becomes a brighter / more fruity floral version of the original. The interesting (and probably divisive) part is the tea note. It gives almost a saccharine sweetness to it. This could've been called "Diet Black Opium," or "Black Opium a la Fresca," and it would've made more sense. I actually didn't like this one much when I first got it. I really missed the vanilla in the EDP. But as I was wearing this, I smelt something so beautiful in the air, it took me a few min to realize it was coming from me! I just had to smell it from further away. Now when I wear this, I spray this on the back of my shirt, and I can catch that beautiful scent all the time.

on my country this parfum dont more sale :,c so im jealous from the people that really has this parfum and has the oportunity for smell <3 im remember that i smell this on january from this year, and yeah, is the first fragance when i started with all black opiums sweet , cute and very inocent fragance .... casually this supossed to be sexy more than the classic but i feel so inocent like a litle girl started with coffe with strawberrys and later feel the green tea with some jazmin and the coffe note dont feel a lot, thing that i really like it this parfum is like started with a sweet heart and later past 8 hours finally transform how soo mature smell with flowers and the sweet part dissapears, doing it more versatile and ideal from young and old womans i wish some day smell this again cuz is much better than the reformulate version(glowing) please ysl...create this version again from all citys....

Ok Can we talk about black opium eau de toilette This really smell so good...or maybe...smelling Bah..just imagine a strawberrys with chocolate and chocolate cake with a lily flower And later is a green tea and imagine a flower roses bouquet with a litle green smell I know that this sounds so crazy but is so special the same time Is the litle that i can imagine when i was smell this for the first time This fragance really starts like a litle child and later becomes a very young woman Aaah...just life on my january feells when i smell this for the first time This parfum is literally the reason for i like all black opium line Ironic ..this so sweet for a dark commercial and i think is the most sweet after nuit blanche Sadly ysl dont produce more this fragance.... Happy bday litle ...

I really love this one. The richness of the coffee, the sweetness of the blackcurrant, the woods and orange blossom, I love it all. I had tried a sample once and that was all it took. This smells so deep and heady to me, but with some fruitiness to keep it from being too overwhelming. I equate it to a dark room with the curtains drawn, except for a small portion pulled back so that a crack of light can come through. The silage is decent, nothing that will choke a room full of people, and the longevity is great. I can spray it on in the early morning and still smell it (though not quite as strongly) long into the evening. I will absolutely be purchasing more when this runs out.

To my nose this is the most beautiful blend that you can think of, of coffee and licorice, even though licorice isn't listed as one of the notes. Sillage: On my skin; embarrassingly enormous during the first 30 minutes (yes, I have seen people making faces and taking a step back), but after half an hour it stays within my comfort zone (arms length). Longevity: It performs better than most perfumes on my skin.. approximately 5-6 hours. When to wear: In my opinion this is a perfume suited for clubbing, late nights and for wintertime.

i like Black Opium EDT much better than the EDP. i fell for the scent on a card sample i was sent and couldnt stop thinking about this perfume till i purchased it. while the EDT still has the warmth, depth and mystery of the parfum, it is much more fresher and not sickly sweet. i love the coffee and white floral factor it has to it. This scent is very attractive , sexy and alluring. It also has amazing lasting power; 8hr + and i would recommend it to anyone who loves to stand out. x

Purchased this excellent fragrance as part of my Wife's birthday gift after smelling a sample in a Macy's mailed flyer. Love it on her as she does too! The combination sweetness the coffee and vanilla notes bring, mixed with woody floral notes smell scrumptious. It makes sexy moments even more indulging ;) Coming from a classic man, this is a very sexy one for the ladies!

This was a beautiful surprise to me! I feel the citrus notes, a delicious coffee scent,and then the confortable warm woody notes. I'm not a La vie est belle kind of perfume lover,but this one is just so delicious! It's sweet, sexy and feminine, easy to wear day and night! Perfect!

This is soooo pleasant for my olfactory nerve. It projects very good but does not make me wanna throw up. This is a head-turner. It also lasts very long on me. I sprayed 2 spritzes at 9AM, now it's already 4pm. 7 hours and it's still projecting!! What a catch for an EDT!!!

I'm joining the sad people team. I absolutely love everything about this perfume. Everything... but performance. One hour after spraying i need to stick my nose to my clothes to smell it, and 2 hours later it's gone. It's a real shame, because it's a delicious scent.

Aahhh, lovely. Finally, a nice coffee scent, not too sweet, not like its predecessor edp, which is too sweet for my taste. I can smell coffee beans, something sweet, like marshmallows, and it's refreshed with a bit of green, I guess it's the tea. Thumbs up!

This version is a cozy sweet musk on my skin. Lighter than the EDP. Still very sweet. Midway through the dry down I get the woods popping through, then the DNA of the EDP with its vanilla coffee lingers on the skin.

I love this! I love the EDP anyway and usually prefer them but the EDT of Black opium wins for me! My colleague is now upset she bought her bottle of the EDP before the EDT came out because she likes mine more!

La versione edt è davvero molto simile all'originale Black Opim. Con l'apertura iniziale quasi non noto la differenza tra i due.. Poi man mano si avverte che è un po' più leggera..

I really like this one better than the EDP. I get more of that coffee note and it's a bit warmer and less sour than the EDP. The sillage and longevity is really great.

my winter to go perfume , so feminine and last long unlike other perfumes that does last at all on my skin.

May have found a cheap sort-of-dupe for this: Paris by night by River Island.

The Black Opium EDP has a special place in my heart because it was my first "real perfume" I fell in love with and was obsessed with it. I always had an issue though with how it only seemed to really last and project for like 30 minutes though. I heard about trying out the EDT instead and that it would be 'better' since the EDP honestly has the performance of an EDT anyways, it doesn't really matter which you get longevity wise. Upon first applying my sample of this, I can smell it within about 8" of my skin, which like the EDP, has a large projection at first. It does really smell pretty similar too, but maybe just a touch less 'scratchy' or heavy? Probably from the lack of pink pepper. The pear is certainly there, though, and it's a bit more 'juicy' smelling from most likely the citrus. After about 5 minutes, it's already a bit lighter, smelling within about 4" of my skin and a calming tea scent is there as well. I never got too much of the coffee note in the EDP, more so a hint of a super sugary "coffee" drink, or vanilla latte, and I feel like there's perhaps a hint of that here too? I drink my coffee black, so it can be hard for me to discern when there are "coffee" notes in fragrances, but it's more like a frappucino or latte. I feel like it also is already very 'weak' smelling. The EDP has a big punch in the beginning that can be honestly a bit overwhelming. This seems a bit languid and listless and shy without much body, which I'm pretty surprised about. Almost a bit thin? Like I get a scent, but it's kind of fleeting or watery and not like one potent scent "cloud". 10 minutes later and it has a sort of sweetness to it that reminds me of anise or licorice. I do think there is actually a bit more coffee scent coming out now, which honestly in the EDP was still just 'vanilla latte' coffee smelling. To me, if I wasn't told coffee was in here, I still wouldn't have known, but since I know it's a note here, it does smell a bit like very sweet coffee beans. There's a slight roastiness to it, too. 1 hour later and it's a skin scent that's been a bit linear. Still a bit syrupy sweet, but with actually some slight coffee-ness to it. More so than I'd say even the EDP has, which is surprising, and actually what I wanted from the EDP. There are moments every now and again I actually do smell coffee, not vanilla latte, which makes me happy. I feel it's sweeter directly on the skin, and more coffee-ish the further you move away or in the trail. But the scent is fainter at this point overall. I'll see how long this lasts. 3 hours later and it's a light skin scent I need my nose to my arm to smell, but it's there. It's a bit woody and sweet. 4 hours later and it's basically gone, except the slightest hint left directly on the skin.

I wondered recently, the Papaveroideae, is that the patriarchy who believes that their ideals are right in the sense that this is a disgrace to the fragrance which first bore part of this name? This fragrance here, it seems to speaks to me. More than the poison of hypnosis, but it is not my intention to cause a rivalry. Having been drawn to the intensely red flower ever since I can remember, having been partially saturated from its seeds on some Friday evenings and seasonally as one of two pastry fillings might have something to do with it. That there is no depth to it is something that I partly understand but partly also see as a hasty reflex brought about by the sweetness and perhaps also by some who may be applying it onto a certain hollowness. That never works, as it does not work to cover an unsightly character with, say, an expensive wardrobe. Alright, alright! I will try to behave. The fragrance, I hope, is not an empty shell over sentiments. The note of coffee is not something that I absolutely must have in a fragrance, but here it seems creamy, blended well and in interaction with kind of a fluid poppy red, a bit of sparkle as well as something grittier and darker, which may be allegorical smoked poppy seeds that you might feel haptically as if it was a refreshing peeling if you happened to spill this imaginary cream. I will have to decide on whether to pursue this formulation or the higher concentrated one. And then simply wearing it without giving too much weight to simplified associations, as they probably do not have to grapple with not few bland fragrances marketed to men. I might have settled with smelling it from her but for seven winters now I have wondered, where that sweet neck may be.