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Notes10/22/2020
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Powdery-sweet porthole
Hello snoopers, welcome to a new test report from me, this time about Yves Saint Laurent's Belle d'Opium, which unfortunately is no longer produced. Some people are sad about it, others don't care, because not all ladies like the opium scents.
For whatever reason... some of the scents smell really nice. Tasty too, even you mature ladies! STOP! I said that wrong, I meant that even though some of the fragrances smell like more mature women's fragrances, they smell delicious too! Yes, that's right He he he :D
Belle d'Opium, however, has a somewhat strange scent name, at least I think so. Opium-Beauty... that sounds almost sarcastically condescending, as if one would insult people who are drawn by drugs, respectively make fun of them with the term, as opium is mainly used for the production of heroin and drug addicts can look quite drawn from excessive consumption, at least if you look at these drug-face pictures, which are published from time to time, especially in the USA. But well, the name has been a hot topic since the beginning of mankind... uh, or at least when the first scent of opium was released, especially in the USA and China. Well, you can look at it either way. But the controversy has contributed to the fact that the fragrances have become extremely well known and thus, of course, bestsellers.
But good, let's get to the nicer things, because the scent here has nothing to do with drugs, so let's see if another opium flanker smells good (or rather, as I said, it didn't smell good then, but it doesn't exist anymore for 10 years).
The sweetish one, however, is somehow more difficult to determine, I think that I smell a mix of fruity-sweet as well as flowery-sweet scents here, whereby the flowery-sweet scents are stronger because of the jasmine.
A little later the patchouli becomes a little weaker. The fragrance still smells both fruity and flowery-sweet, with a soft powdery note.
In the base, a little amber is added to the sweetness of the fragrance. After some back and forth (in terms of intensity), the patchouli finally weakens in the base, making the fragrance even more powdery-sweet. The amber also radiates a nice warmth and the background remains nice and resinous. All in all a very nice scent.
The bottle! The fragrance comes in the usual opium bottles with the porthole and this time it is violet-blueish. The neck is gold-plated and the lid integrated into the spray head is hemispherical. The flacon looks very good and I like it quite a bit.
In addition, there is of course the generally beautiful scent, which is easy to bite into. Or you ladies, as always I could rave endlessly again, argh, I think I urgently need something to cuddle up, apart from the cat :D *sigh*
This makes the fragrance very suitable for going out, even though the sillage could have been even higher. But the durability is right anyway. Since the scent doesn't radiate overwhelmingly heavy a little later, it's almost an all-rounder for me, which should not only be usable in autumn or winter, but also in spring.
Well... and now I'll come to the end. That's it then, have a nice evening everyone and see you all :)
For whatever reason... some of the scents smell really nice. Tasty too, even you mature ladies! STOP! I said that wrong, I meant that even though some of the fragrances smell like more mature women's fragrances, they smell delicious too! Yes, that's right He he he :D
Belle d'Opium, however, has a somewhat strange scent name, at least I think so. Opium-Beauty... that sounds almost sarcastically condescending, as if one would insult people who are drawn by drugs, respectively make fun of them with the term, as opium is mainly used for the production of heroin and drug addicts can look quite drawn from excessive consumption, at least if you look at these drug-face pictures, which are published from time to time, especially in the USA. But well, the name has been a hot topic since the beginning of mankind... uh, or at least when the first scent of opium was released, especially in the USA and China. Well, you can look at it either way. But the controversy has contributed to the fact that the fragrances have become extremely well known and thus, of course, bestsellers.
But good, let's get to the nicer things, because the scent here has nothing to do with drugs, so let's see if another opium flanker smells good (or rather, as I said, it didn't smell good then, but it doesn't exist anymore for 10 years).
The smell:
In the beginning I smell peaches with incense as well as earthy patchouli, whereby the latter makes the fragrance seem more ripe, well, as it is usually the case with patchouli, at least nowadays. And before you beat me: when I write "ripe", I often mean that the fragrance is not something for a 16 to 18 year old, for example. So I don't call you old here, even though most of you are probably much older than me, uh, he he he :D The sweetish one, however, is somehow more difficult to determine, I think that I smell a mix of fruity-sweet as well as flowery-sweet scents here, whereby the flowery-sweet scents are stronger because of the jasmine.
A little later the patchouli becomes a little weaker. The fragrance still smells both fruity and flowery-sweet, with a soft powdery note.
In the base, a little amber is added to the sweetness of the fragrance. After some back and forth (in terms of intensity), the patchouli finally weakens in the base, making the fragrance even more powdery-sweet. The amber also radiates a nice warmth and the background remains nice and resinous. All in all a very nice scent.
The Sillage and the durability:
The sillage is quite okay, neither very strong nor weak and will therefore be smellable for a while if you don't stand too far away. The shelf life is also good, as you can smell the scent for the typical eight hours and even a little more. The bottle! The fragrance comes in the usual opium bottles with the porthole and this time it is violet-blueish. The neck is gold-plated and the lid integrated into the spray head is hemispherical. The flacon looks very good and I like it quite a bit.
Conclusion:
Okay guys, so I think Belle d'Opium is one of the very good opium scents. Well, let's just say he'd rather hear it, since, as I mentioned, it's no longer available. I think that the fragrance is a good mix of classic scents with the modern. By this I mean that it has patchouli notes, which sometimes look more like the 90s, but at the same time softer and more powdery notes make the fragrance seem more modern, as many fragrances today have that lovely touch, where a fragrance appears powdery and warm, as if it had iris or vanilla in it. In addition, there is of course the generally beautiful scent, which is easy to bite into. Or you ladies, as always I could rave endlessly again, argh, I think I urgently need something to cuddle up, apart from the cat :D *sigh*
This makes the fragrance very suitable for going out, even though the sillage could have been even higher. But the durability is right anyway. Since the scent doesn't radiate overwhelmingly heavy a little later, it's almost an all-rounder for me, which should not only be usable in autumn or winter, but also in spring.
Well... and now I'll come to the end. That's it then, have a nice evening everyone and see you all :)
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