Opium pour Homme (1995)
by Yves Saint Laurent

Unholy immediately after spraying. You won't believe how bad it smells out of the bottle! It's a pepper/spice/roach spray bomb. This cologne makes first impressions seem trivial. A few minutes later it calms down to mild pepper, cinnamon and vanilla. My mother says it smells amazing. Women at the grocery store get closer for no apparent reason. I get more smiles than ever and generally feel like I'm being scoped out. I wear fragrances to attract women. This one is doing the trick big time.

I tend to spray scents point blank. that really screws Opium up on my skin, it needs to cover a wide area. otherwise, ive certainly smelled worse, much worse in fact. that said, this 100mls will last me years and years. and thats because i wont be wearing it all the time.

my second lifetime blind buy, and first due to basenotes.

I love Orientals. Not this one.
It’s nauseating, choking, cloying and very disturbing on my skin. I’ve only sampled the EDT version, but considering the effect it had on me, I will not be posting a review of the EDP version.
Usually I give fragrances a second chance. This one-no way.
The scent is so irritating, after few hours I couldn’t wait to get it off my skin. I never thought I can possibly be disgusted by vanilla. They must have mixed the concoction in a bucket, added vanilla, balm and then an old dog took a crap in it. Even after 20 min in the shower, was still there/dog and all/.
From the reviews below I can tell longevity must be pretty good. For me it’s just another horrifying fact.
OPH is one of the worst scents I have ever applied on my skin.

For forty-five minutes it’s a compelling and fun woody oriental with good spice and some of the ripe, plummy bubblegum note from the women’s counterpart, but it’s all down hill as the cheap, loud vanilla blows up becoming an intolerable burden for what can seem like an endless duration (especially true of the EDP). I always think of it as a fragrance for children. Indeed, I smelled it on a high school kid (I asked him what he was wearing), and damn near gagged. Other than a guy wearing too much Drakkar Noir and a few women in their loud, cheap fruity-floral orientals with nuclear radiance, this was one of the worst fragrances I’ve smelled on another person. They had the right idea, and weren’t terribly far from something decent, but small details make or break any fragrance. If you must have something similar, look into Opium pour Homme Eau d’Orient. Its structure is poverty stricken, and it’s fairly banal, but it’s a hell of a lot better then either concentrations of the original. I still find it hard to believe it was even released, but as the great Edmond Roudnitska famously said, “Most perfumes today are bonbons”. Either way, there are a lot better bonbons than this.

This smells great, maybe a bit feminine, but spicy and nice. Really strong, but what would you expect from a scent named after a drug? I could only see myself using this at formal events, so a .5 oz is more than enough. Sillage/Longevity seem solid. I will pick up some of this.

a sickly sweet pungent smell like estee lauder products not my style

when i smelled it it was a sweet strong mess of notes that completely clashed and did not have anything remotely appealing to them but perhaps its just my skin chemistry