Description
The new fresh Eau de Toilette edition for 2018 is labeled as the Black Opium New Glowing Eau de Toilette and invites you to “experience the new fizzing addiction”.
“Energetic, impulsive and addicted to fun, BLACK OPIUM EAU DE TOILETTE woman enjoys trying new experiences with her friends. She lives in the moment and she is always in quest for the unexpected. Her fragrance signature: the new glowing eau de toilette fizzing addiction.”
The composition is a zesty and sweet floral-oriental with a recognizable gourmand coffee accord that is refreshed by pear and citrus accords in the top in this variant. The heart is composed of white flowers placed on an oriental and woody base.
The bottle mixes the Black Opium legacy and the new attributes of The New Glowing Eau de Toilette: the signature shape with a new transparency which expresses the lightness and the freshness of the scent. Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Glowing Eau de Toilette is available in quantities of 50 and 90 ml.
Black Opium Eau de Toilette (2018) was created by Nathalie Lorson, Marie Salamagne, Honorine Blanc and Olivier Cresp.
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al_porf – :
All I can seem to find at Sephora is the old edt
soyuz_71 – :
I really like the original Black Opium, but I think that I enjoy this version more; it keeps a lot of the same scent notes, but swaps the vanilla and pepper for citrus and pear. I think that this freshly-sweet twist does give the fragrance a sense of energizing ‘glow’ and fizzyness’. The floral notes seem airier too.
Despite going from an edp down to a edt, the sillage and longevity are still impressive – still a last-all-day fragrance, that radiates a foot or so.
rbn89 – :
I’m wearing it right now, and I really like this… I expected not to like it at all, as I hate the original.
I can still smell some of it in this, after all it’s the EDT version of it. But I don’t know… for me it’s the lemon who saves it, it elevastes this perfume from the bitterness of the EDP.
andreih80 – :
Decided to sniff the EDT version of Black Opium. So much advertised everywhere competing with Poison Girl unexpected. A soft, warm, slightly green, oily, almond. Much sheerer than Black Opium and quieter, lasted at around three hours. A vague floralcy, very subdued. An interesting low key fragrance. What I smell is almost niche.
But what I smell cannot be possibly right. Oil. Only oil. Like olive oil. Like almond oil. Almond oil.
Because: coffee, lemon, bergamot, pear, jasmine, orange blossom, cedar, patch, musk,blackcurrant accord and all the rest descriptions of it: energizing, fizzy, bright, heady floral etc are nowhere to be smelled.
Not that the scent of almond oil is not pleasant, but I just doubt that YSL were going for almond oil.
Severe case of distortive anosmia
KANONIR – :
There’s pear in the original EDT as well, it’s nothing new. This one is just more citrusy. The dry down is nice and different from the original, you can smell the pear and coffee this time.
serg200970 – :
I think the original edt is being discontinued as I’ve seen it on clearance in places like Boots. It said clearance on the ticket, not sale.
yaoihic – :
You can “seriously” all you want Bruno57, but they make them because they sell.
YSL claim this release to be “THE FIRST fizzing coffee floral ever imagined for a fragrance.”
….and my girlfriend already wants it.
Phejulley – :
11 versions in 3 years, seriously ?