Black Opium Perfume By YVES SAINT LAURENT YSL 1.6 oz Eau De Toilette (Glowing Edition) Spray

Black Opium Perfume by Yves Saint Laurent, Black Opium is an Oriental vanilla women’s fragrance with vanilla, coffee, and sweet main accords. This scent was a collaboration between perfumers Nathalie Lorson, Marie Salamagne, Olivier Cresp, and Honorine Blanc. It is housed in a dark bottle with sequin decorations to present a glam rock look.

Pear, pink pepper, and orange blossom make up the head notes while coffee, jasmine, bitter almond, and licorice form the heart notes. Vanilla, patchouli, cedar, and cashmere wood base notes complete this composition. Best worn during fall and winter nights, it has moderate longevity and sillage.

Black Opium by Yves Saint Laurent is a Oriental Vanilla fragrance for women. Black Opium was created by Nathalie Lorson, Marie Salamagne, Olivier Cresp and Honorine Blanc.

Top notes are Pear, Pink Pepper and Orange Blossom

Middle notes are Coffee, Jasmine, Bitter Almond and Licorice

Base notes are Vanilla, Patchouli, Cedar and Cashmere Wood

Brand Story: This fragrance was released by Yves Saint Laurent, a French fashion house that is also abbreviated as Ysl. This house was founded by Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent. Laurent began his career at age 17 when he assisted Christian Dior. After serving in the Algerian War of Independence, he opened his own fashion company in the 1960s. The brand released its first fragrance in 1964. It offers its fragrances in conjunction with L’Oreal.