Yves Saint Laurent: Opium, Eau de Toilette

Opium Opium was launched by Yves Saint Laurent in 1977 and is described as being a “refined, subtle, oriental fragrance.” Packaging Opium is packaged in a classic box which is a bright amber colour and is decorated with gold leaves. The bottle itself is see through and is an oval shape and made from glass. The lid is plastic and is an amber / brown colour with gold trimming around the edges. The bottle has leaves embossed onto it. On the front of the bottle the words Opium and Eau de Toilette are written in amber / brown. Price This perfume is available in several sizes and prices do really vary from shop to shop so it’s ...  Read the complete review

My husband has been working away in Crete and returned home on Friday bearing gifts. One of the gifts he bought for me was a bottle of Opium perfume, this has been a favourite perfume of mine for many years and I normally only receive it for Birthdays and Christmas so it was a real bonus to receive a bottle so close to Christmas, especially as I can now choose another fragrance for Christmas, lol. Opium is made in France and was created by French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. It has been around for some years and I was first introduced to it when staying with my Auntie as a young teenager, back in the 1980's, she was wearing it and I can still ...  Read the complete review

Long ago during the summer of our youth, Himself returned from a business trip with a gift that changed my life forever: He presented me with my first bottle of Opium. Since that time, I've never truly been the same. I still dabble occasionally with White Shoulders and Narcisse. Obsession and Green Tea are welcome on my dressing table--my tastes in scent remain eclectic. But it is Opium that friends remark upon and new acquaintances ask about. It is Opium that clings to my sweaters and jackets. It is Opium that announces to all and sundry that Herself has recently passed this way. The other fragrances are mere flirtations. As all my family and friends know, ...  Read the complete review

In my home on a Friday night it stinks to high heaven! My parents go out and they insist on wearing his and hers matching fragrances. Usually it is this Opium that gets flashed about, sometimes it's Obsession and there's me getting ready to go out too and like I say it can stink in my home lol. My Mums favourite fragrance is this. It's one of them fragrances that if she runs out of it, without a second thought she'll go out and grab a bottle. She's not a person like that with anything else and I guess really this is her signature perfume! The other night I was going out and I am rather fond of strong perfumes and I decided to nick her bottle and see ...  Read the complete review

Since I was nearly 14, in the summer of 1991, I have been in love with Opium. It will always outshine everything else. At the time I had no idea that it was even perfume. A relative who is a Monica Belucci lookalike wore it. I was awkward and rather ugly and greatly impressed by her. Years later, on smelling this wonderful scent again, an acquaintance told me what it was. I was in my late teens then. I kept my nose alert for it everywhere. It always gave me the same buzz as when I was younger. But I never considered using it, it seemed too ladylike and I'm not really feminine. Until my now husband handed me a fancy looking gift. It was a bottle of Opium, Eau ...  Read the complete review