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DrGourmand
A fragrance and recipe recommendation
I was very unsure how to approach this comment on Opium pour Homme EdT. Both the EdT and the EdP have been described very well, both individually and in comparison, and have been incorporated into the experience and memories of the authors over 25 years of market presence in many, also really first-class comments. Now I like "classics" very much and complain about this as a reason for a new comment, maybe there is also some vain behaviour to give his mustard to it.
Why opium? Launched in 1977 as a perfume for women, I think it should provoke from the very beginning. With suspicions of banned ingredients (sales banned in the USA for approx. one year), intellectual references to the two opium wars of Britain against China, opulent marketing and the latently cultivated aftertaste of aggressive passion combined with positive drug and alcohol consumption, perfume was the talk of the town worldwide. Now Yves-Saint Laurent himself was not a quiet walker either, as his ingenious snubs of the fashion world showed in retrospect. You were in conversation no matter how and he was successful!
If I should describe Opium pour Homme with only one word, I can only think of it provocatively. A perfume that wants everything and gives a lot! It is a scent for a warrior! But it's more for a water-washed fighter than for a tank rider, more for an Assassin or Amazon than for a Valkyrie. I also consider the EdT a bit more "aggressive" than the EdP. Fictitious wearers might be Bronn and Arya from game of thrones and in the real world all men and women with the necessary self-confidence to attract attention in one way or another, as they like it.
Because as I said, the fragrance does not allow many compromises. It starts right away with the star anise. Embedded in fruit he screams "Love me or not"! And while the fruity notes (really blackcurrant is not clear to me) glide along pleasantly, the star anise gets help with ginger and pepper and shouts more strictly "Take me"! And the reputation is sweet and demanding. But the decision has already been made, no more retreat. The spices and the squid-like star anise won't let go anymore and my resistance goes against null.
anyway
Then there really is "opium" in the air. I surrender completely to the smoky, spicy swaths but they make me stronger and braver again and yet hold me tight. "Yes I will," I hear myself say as I take control again. The illusion is perfect, I am strong and anything is possible. It is comfortably warm in me and yet I feel cool and hectic activity around me. So I pull the luring, vanilla blanket ever higher and fall, with open eyes, slowly into a long and yet vigilant sleep!
Despite all the positive acceptance (or not) of this distinctive, fragrant fragrance, I always find myself confronted with the name opium, which, well-considered, is mystically abysmal and controversially provocative. Personally I can handle it very well.
In this context and to conclude, I would like to give you a small gourmand tip. The sisters of the Maioli monastery developed a special dish with similarly differentiated and spicy star anise. Pieds de porc St-Antoine is a kind of oriental aspic to love or hate. For many already repulsive in name, it has, with fried potatoes and sour cucumbers, just like the perfume, addictive character.
Why opium? Launched in 1977 as a perfume for women, I think it should provoke from the very beginning. With suspicions of banned ingredients (sales banned in the USA for approx. one year), intellectual references to the two opium wars of Britain against China, opulent marketing and the latently cultivated aftertaste of aggressive passion combined with positive drug and alcohol consumption, perfume was the talk of the town worldwide. Now Yves-Saint Laurent himself was not a quiet walker either, as his ingenious snubs of the fashion world showed in retrospect. You were in conversation no matter how and he was successful!
If I should describe Opium pour Homme with only one word, I can only think of it provocatively. A perfume that wants everything and gives a lot! It is a scent for a warrior! But it's more for a water-washed fighter than for a tank rider, more for an Assassin or Amazon than for a Valkyrie. I also consider the EdT a bit more "aggressive" than the EdP. Fictitious wearers might be Bronn and Arya from game of thrones and in the real world all men and women with the necessary self-confidence to attract attention in one way or another, as they like it.
Because as I said, the fragrance does not allow many compromises. It starts right away with the star anise. Embedded in fruit he screams "Love me or not"! And while the fruity notes (really blackcurrant is not clear to me) glide along pleasantly, the star anise gets help with ginger and pepper and shouts more strictly "Take me"! And the reputation is sweet and demanding. But the decision has already been made, no more retreat. The spices and the squid-like star anise won't let go anymore and my resistance goes against null.
anyway
Then there really is "opium" in the air. I surrender completely to the smoky, spicy swaths but they make me stronger and braver again and yet hold me tight. "Yes I will," I hear myself say as I take control again. The illusion is perfect, I am strong and anything is possible. It is comfortably warm in me and yet I feel cool and hectic activity around me. So I pull the luring, vanilla blanket ever higher and fall, with open eyes, slowly into a long and yet vigilant sleep!
Despite all the positive acceptance (or not) of this distinctive, fragrant fragrance, I always find myself confronted with the name opium, which, well-considered, is mystically abysmal and controversially provocative. Personally I can handle it very well.
In this context and to conclude, I would like to give you a small gourmand tip. The sisters of the Maioli monastery developed a special dish with similarly differentiated and spicy star anise. Pieds de porc St-Antoine is a kind of oriental aspic to love or hate. For many already repulsive in name, it has, with fried potatoes and sour cucumbers, just like the perfume, addictive character.
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