Opium Poesie de Chine pour Femme

24 july 2012 i LOVE the original Opium but have never tried most of the flankers, since i thought they are not the same as the legendary fragrance. Today i have finally experienced this one by accident. A customer has dropped a bottle of it onto the floor and it fell into pieces. I didn ́t know that until i have suddenly smelled an amazing scent spreading all over the hall. I became so anxious and kept asking everyone "what IS that AMAZING smell?" Everyone was totally disgussed by it, i was the only one who could appreciate it. I knew it reminded me of something very classy and something i have smelled before, i just couldn ́t remember. Then customer told me it was Opium and particular this flanker. I don ́t care about the bottle (to be honest i Do like it a lot), but let me tell you about the smell. This is very close to the original Opium with more brighter notes (orange in particular). If i see original Opium oriental, but more "down to earth", this one is more "joyful and breight". The original is dawn, but this one is sunrise. Lovely magnolia note with spices and myrhh. So uplifting! Really amazing sillage (well, it was the whole bottle actually) and incredible lasting power. Now my only concern is: where to get this one for myself! I cpuld really wear this one during summer time as well. I will spare my original Opium for autumn, but this one is summer scent! Don ́t judge it by the bottle, just go and try this scent! You ́ll get a nice surprise (but you have to like Opium at least). LOVELY!!!

I totally agree with the review below. All the big houses made a mockery of the old original classics and absolutely destroyed them, leaving us with not even a hint of what they used to be. I do believe that all those new flankers are useless, generic and just bad, though I have to admit the only one I really really liked and it was gorgeous is Belle D’Opium. Of course they discontinued it! Why not? Let’s keep all those 20 awful Black Opium and get rid of the only good one. Anyway back to Opium Poesie de Chine....this is such a gorgeous fragrance, very wearable during day time, and the citrus, amber and vanilla combo is just perfect. It reminds me of Tom Ford’s Shanghai Lily (also discontinued) also Hermes L’ambre des Merveilles (due to patchouli vanilla amber notes). I think if you lucky enough TK Maxx might have a random bottle in stock, I’ve seen once and really wish I bought it.

Lovely, Lovely, Lovely! I am a huge fan of Opium, the King of orientals - I own 2 vintage Opium bottles that I cherish and use sparingly, for the rarity of the formulation and the fact it's a perfume I consider for important moments. But I digress. Poésie de Chine is a softer version of the original Opium, only much more wearable; it starts with fresh notes but has all the depth - w/o being overpowering. The drydown is very close to skin and powdery, like Opium. Very sensual but modern at the same time. I like it very much, notable sillage and excellent staying power. I wish it could be still in production, alas now we've got just the new reformulated Opium that is only a faint shadow of the original. And a million useless, shameful flankers that should be banned.

A wonderful blind buy!!! sexy seductive and mysterious scent!!!! for autumn night!!!! 20 US dollars for 3.3 oz!!!

The subtle nuances of the original Opium are re-evoked poetically in "Poésie de Chine" as the perfume's name would suggest. The similarities between the original Opium and this flanker are quite accentuated to the point of giving to it the same warm nostalgic sensation of opulent images of oriental golden poetry and autumnal warm colours, leaving a seductive lingering trail... I've said it before, and I'll say it again, for me there is only one Opium: the Original. The timeless extravagance of its bold, rich, opulent Uniqueness. The luxurious golden poetry of autumnal images. Yet dark and mysterious. "Poésie" is velvety, yet a softer and lighter interpretation of the original, a delicate statement of its archetype. However, it has great sillage and longevity. The opulance of the balsamic note overwhelms the whole of the composition. Spices are less prominent. The balmy and vanilla melancholy is strong. Myrhh runs deeply adding a great projection to the composition. A beautiful oriental dream in a bottle. This is what I call a successfully made flanker, it has the ability to express delicate shadings of the original. The bottle of "Poésie de Chine" is decorated with verses from the ancient "Chinese Book of Odes" as a beautiful chant to the "Opium" itself.