Black Opium Yves Saint Laurent 2021 Eau de Parfum Extrême
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Extrême != Extreme ....
... that's how I would describe the fragrance to my colleagues. Which means nothing other than, Extrême is unequal to Extreme. But I'll get to that in a moment.
A few years ago, I loved wearing the regular Black Opium in the dead of winter. I never liked the coffee note to begin with, but my nose got used to it very quickly. At that point, I vowed to only wear that scent. :D Well, I knew until then also not really much more fragrances.
Anyway, I had me some time ago a filling of Black Opium EdP procured, and played for months to get me the fragrance again. Whereby it would be only for the memory.
When I saw that Black Opium Eau de Parfum Extrême comes out, I was determined, it gernau will be the right version for me. Until just now, I also thought it would be called "Black Opium Extrême - Eau de Parfum" and just not "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum Extrême)". So my expectations were very Extrême, no matter where the Extrême would have stood.
I explain first my first impression and then the more detailed test and then again a short version.
I got the fragrance as a gift. Full of curiosity, I ran first in a perfumery and have me "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum" sprayed on the right hand. Quickly out, quickly open the packaging and quickly "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum Extrême" on my left hand. I sniffed my hands in turn. On the left, I smell bitter chocolate and espresso, just like Yanlizkalp79 wrote in her statement. On the right, clearly Black Opium. Outside, in direct comparison, "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum" smelled sweeter and also fruity, just brighter (I go now deliberately not so strong on the normal fragrance).
To me it seemed as if the Extreme variant was actually darker and more adult.
Just FYI, I think I have scent-swallowing skin. Because after 2 hours I perceived the Extreme hardly nich. Very slightly, the skin still smelled like warm vanilla. The right hand with the normal variant had been in all their fragrances still present there.
Well my enthusiasm was curbed and my imagination not fulfilled. Well, maybe I have to deal a little more with the fragrance.
No sooner said than done, now I'm sitting here. Left of me "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum Extreme" and right of me "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum". Left and right test strips. Laptop on. 3x sprayed on the test strips and 3x on my hand. Same game as before or still: left "Extreme", right "Normal". To both I make me on Parfumo the fragrance pyramid on. Only now I see that it is only called "Eau de Parfum Extreme". And only now I see the citrus notes in the fragrance. I didn't notice the citrus notes at all. Now that I read it and the scent has faded a bit, I do notice them. More on the test strip than on my hand. But that's not worth talking about.
Meanwhile, my nose is probably fragrance dust. I smell hardly a difference between the two scents. I get another nose in the game, the person also hardly differences was, except " right (Normal) smells sweeter than left (Extreme), but only minimally". The point for the durability and sillage gets the normal Black Opium.
I will tomorrow morning, with a fresh nose, sniff the test strips again and then probably give an update here.
Conclusion:
So inconspicuous, the word was added to the Eau de Parfum, just as inconspicuous one perceives the changes to the fragrance. I think the Extreme fragrance gets its tart fragrance note by the cocoa and that the coffee has changed the level. But for me it is only perceptible in direct comparison. The fragrance remains defzedem a sweet fragrance. The word Extreme raises the expectations high. But Extreme is not so Extreme. No one would notice these minimal changes. At the most, they wouldn't notice it at all, because of the poorer durability. How bad the durability really is, I must test again more exactly. Does the fragrance have to be in the collection if "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum" already has a place? - Definitely not. Very fine noses, can learn to love the perhaps, if always a Black Opium was desired.
My olfactory bulb, gets used to fragrances pretty quickly and needs really extreme stuff. I recommend rather the normal Black Opium. Should you already have the Extreme in the collection, it is also not further Dramatisch, because the two fragrances hardly differ.
A few years ago, I loved wearing the regular Black Opium in the dead of winter. I never liked the coffee note to begin with, but my nose got used to it very quickly. At that point, I vowed to only wear that scent. :D Well, I knew until then also not really much more fragrances.
Anyway, I had me some time ago a filling of Black Opium EdP procured, and played for months to get me the fragrance again. Whereby it would be only for the memory.
When I saw that Black Opium Eau de Parfum Extrême comes out, I was determined, it gernau will be the right version for me. Until just now, I also thought it would be called "Black Opium Extrême - Eau de Parfum" and just not "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum Extrême)". So my expectations were very Extrême, no matter where the Extrême would have stood.
I explain first my first impression and then the more detailed test and then again a short version.
I got the fragrance as a gift. Full of curiosity, I ran first in a perfumery and have me "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum" sprayed on the right hand. Quickly out, quickly open the packaging and quickly "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum Extrême" on my left hand. I sniffed my hands in turn. On the left, I smell bitter chocolate and espresso, just like Yanlizkalp79 wrote in her statement. On the right, clearly Black Opium. Outside, in direct comparison, "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum" smelled sweeter and also fruity, just brighter (I go now deliberately not so strong on the normal fragrance).
To me it seemed as if the Extreme variant was actually darker and more adult.
Just FYI, I think I have scent-swallowing skin. Because after 2 hours I perceived the Extreme hardly nich. Very slightly, the skin still smelled like warm vanilla. The right hand with the normal variant had been in all their fragrances still present there.
Well my enthusiasm was curbed and my imagination not fulfilled. Well, maybe I have to deal a little more with the fragrance.
No sooner said than done, now I'm sitting here. Left of me "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum Extreme" and right of me "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum". Left and right test strips. Laptop on. 3x sprayed on the test strips and 3x on my hand. Same game as before or still: left "Extreme", right "Normal". To both I make me on Parfumo the fragrance pyramid on. Only now I see that it is only called "Eau de Parfum Extreme". And only now I see the citrus notes in the fragrance. I didn't notice the citrus notes at all. Now that I read it and the scent has faded a bit, I do notice them. More on the test strip than on my hand. But that's not worth talking about.
Meanwhile, my nose is probably fragrance dust. I smell hardly a difference between the two scents. I get another nose in the game, the person also hardly differences was, except " right (Normal) smells sweeter than left (Extreme), but only minimally". The point for the durability and sillage gets the normal Black Opium.
I will tomorrow morning, with a fresh nose, sniff the test strips again and then probably give an update here.
Conclusion:
So inconspicuous, the word was added to the Eau de Parfum, just as inconspicuous one perceives the changes to the fragrance. I think the Extreme fragrance gets its tart fragrance note by the cocoa and that the coffee has changed the level. But for me it is only perceptible in direct comparison. The fragrance remains defzedem a sweet fragrance. The word Extreme raises the expectations high. But Extreme is not so Extreme. No one would notice these minimal changes. At the most, they wouldn't notice it at all, because of the poorer durability. How bad the durability really is, I must test again more exactly. Does the fragrance have to be in the collection if "Black Opium - Eau de Parfum" already has a place? - Definitely not. Very fine noses, can learn to love the perhaps, if always a Black Opium was desired.
My olfactory bulb, gets used to fragrances pretty quickly and needs really extreme stuff. I recommend rather the normal Black Opium. Should you already have the Extreme in the collection, it is also not further Dramatisch, because the two fragrances hardly differ.
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