Fragrance Reviews by snifferdog

Delicious joyous opulent and silky smooth. Starts with an exuberant mandarin and spicy floral/wood of rosewood and seamlessly weaves into the extravagant rose, cinnamon and carnation heart. From there the intoxicating cloud

This is for the spice and floral lovers. It's sweet without being cloying, radiant floral without being strident, and sparklinlgy spicy without any of the other facets being overwhelmed.

One of the very best fragrances ever created, for men or women.

A masterpiece of perfumery, exquisitely blended, soaring verdant opening notes with a resinous timbre, delicate fresh and sombre floral heart with the lightest woods in the base.

For me most probably the finest perfume ever created.

When I tried this the first few times it was in the middle of summer on stinking hot days. I thought it was appalling.

Then I tried it since it was repackaged. And I must've had some very stale testers before, because this is a masterpiece.

Grandeur is the only word I can use to describe it with.

Hot, peppery, velvety with a delicious vanilla base and smooth rich spices enveloping the whole.

Divine!

This is the richest most sumptuous men's fragrance out there. Spicy, woody, fruity in turns, rich dark exotic, but somehow managing to stay fresh and powerful without being cloying. The dry-down is nothing short of intoxicating. It's so fruity, yet rich masculine and totally addictive.

I love wearing it, and every time I put it on it still feels like a "new" smell, rather than being a tired old thing.

The smell lasts all day on me, and considering that my skin usually kills off most fragrances that's very good going.

Given that I live in Australia, the winter vs summer fragrances don't have the clear climate distinction that they would in the northern hemisphere, whence people often wear the darker fragrances in summer and vice versa, so I'm often wearing this one to the office. And I always always, no matter how many times I've worn it, get the obligator "Oooh, gee, you smell nice," or "What are you wearing? It's sexy?"

Wasn't sure about this one at first, but I've really taken to it. It starts off quite sharp with the mandarine, but settles into a soft fruity zesty woods and spice.

Very nice and very wearable.

I really wanted to like this fragrance... I really did.... but the descriptions given here must have bypassed my olfactory system. All I could smell was a lemon-squash type of odor, very light and quite flimsy, and with not much else going on underneath.

I can see some of the merits on this one, but it's way too thick, leathery and quite sickly for me. Not a pleasing one to wear, and I have tried wearing it. I felt quite suffocated by it.

This just screams testosterone and pheremones! I really like this one, it's typical Chanel in that it is not overly sweet, cloying or sickly. It's a very french fragrance with complex woody leathery notes, and whilst it starts off with a tinge of the usual Chanel bitterness it settles into an outstanding aroma.

Like Chanel Pour Monsieur, I wish this wasn't as expensive in the shops in Australia.

I really like this one, it's a very green chypre that may be old-fashioned, but it is subtle, complex and very sophisticatedly masculine and sexy.

Like all the Chanels that I have tried it starts off with a bitter tinge and settles into a very classy heart.

The powderiness of some of the Chanels is present in the base notes, and I'm still a little undecided as to how I feel about that.

Overall, it's a definite winner in my books. My biggest wish is that it wasn't so expensive in the stores!

The overall marine timbre in this fragrance is offputting to say the least. It's clean in a very synthetic sort of way, and decidedly something that smells more akin to a toilet cleaner than something I would wear.

The fascination with the ozone/aquatic/marine type of fragrances is lost on me, but this one is particularly unpleasant. Very one-dimensional, and a big thumbs down from me.

I really don't feel that this fragrance deserves the negative comments that it's getting. It may not be a radical departure from what's out there on the market, but it is an excellent composition and has a sparkling freshness that is reminiscent of YSL Paris.

It's a very versatile fragrance, and in comparison to the other fragrances of its genre it rates very highly in my books.

This has to be the most nauseating concoction on the market. I'm sorry to all those who like it, but it smells very much like the artificial flavours in fairy floss (cotton-candy for the americans).

It's sweet beyond the point of cloying, and really does not offer a great deal of complexity. A good fragrance smells pleasant. A great fragrance takes you away to another world. This is not good enough to even fall under mediocre.

The whole "Opium" concept for men and women was a masterstroke from YSL.

This is a classic with its spicy, luscious notes and floral tones. Like other YSL fragrances, it's more an experience than a "smell".

I think it's beautiful, and such a seductive opulent fragrance for women. Definitely not for the demure or faint of heart, however! It's bold, heady and luxuriant, but above all it's grandeur.

My mum wears this one, and I still remember the first time we both smelt it: we were in a department store when one of the "squirter-girls", as I used to call them, sprayed some on a card.

We both thought it was more like an experience than a fragrance. A breath of old-world summer.

I still think it's a beatiful fragrance, very rosy and floral. It brings back a lot of happy childhood memories.

I got her a bottle of this for her birthday, and she loves wearing it.

Sickly, cloyingly sweet.... a bit disappointing. This belongs in the category of fragrances that I put Joop! in: too much.

It's nice enough... but smells way too old-fashioned... too much like a man who's counting down his days in a nursing home.

The overall feeling is reasonably pleasant, but perhaps a little too sharp on the citrus and lacking in the warm depth that more modern fragrances have.

This one is an outstanding version of Opium pour Homme, and it is so incredibly wearable and delightful.

While still recognisably Opium pour Homme, it is more citrusy, lighter and brighter, and overall more zesty and fresh. The sweetness is down, but the mellowness of the citrus (grapefruit) comes through with the spice.

Rather than the darker top and midnotes, this uses the subtle freshness of the citrus of grapefruit and adds the spiciness with pepper and woodiness with vetiver.

I wear this every day to work, and have done so since last year, and I still get the "Oh, you smell really nice". And that's even from my partner!