Yves Saint Laurent · 2019

Black Opium Intense

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Intense
Longevity Long-lasting5-8 hours
Projection ModerateFills your personal space
Polarising Mixed

dark coffee and sweet berry syrup with florals

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Black Opium Intense by Yves Saint Laurent is a Oriental Vanilla fragrance for women. Black Opium Intense was launched in 2019. Black Opium Intense was created by Nathalie Lorson, Olivier Cresp, Marie Salamagne and Honorine Blanc. Top notes are Absinthe and Boysenberry; middle notes are Coffee, Jasmine Sambac and Orange Blossom; base notes are Vanilla, Licorice and Sandalwood. At the beginning of 2019, Yves Saint Laurent will launch a new edition of the Black Opium fragrance, Black Opium Eau de Parfum Intense. Black Opium Intense represents a magical, bold, seductive and independent woman, appropriately portrayed by Zoë Kravitz, the new face of the advertising campaign for the line. She follows her intuition and her desires, and nothing can stop her; she is attracted by the energy and the possibilities that the night brings (as stated in the press release). The famous face of the new advertising campaign is also Presley Gerber, the son of supermodel Cindy Crawford. Top note: blue absinthe, boysenberry Heart: Sambac jasmine, orange blossom, black coffee Base: sandalwood, liquorice, vanilla The dark blue bottle is illuminated from the inside with the blue liquid of the perfume. The fragrance is available as a 30, 50, or 90 ml Eau de Parfum Intense.
Projection
Moderate
Gender lean
Leans feminine
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Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent has been releasing fragrances since 1964; Scendira lists 313 of them, with 77 in stock live. The catalogue divides cleanly into the vintage-heritage arm (Opium 1977, Rive Gauche 1971) and the modern gender-fluid line, Libre, Y, MYSLF, Myself, Libre Le Parfum. Prices in stock run $9 to $390. Community's top five right now are the divisive-and-loved Opium Pour Homme EDP (star anise vanilla cedar, 1995), Opium Parfum (1977 amber incense spice), 6 place Saint Sulpice (smoky leather resin, 2017), Y EDP (fresh apple sage aromatic, 2018) and Rive Gauche pour Homme (fougère star-anise, 2003). Family lean is gourmand-forward on the feminine side, fresh-aromatic on the masculine side.

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