YSL Opium A tribute to Chinese architecture and design.

In the beginning of my collection  I had this obsession with YSL Opium. (1977) I managed to have an old semi used eighties bottle of this bitter, opulent, floral, resinous  vanillic amber and it took me back to school years when I was a student in the National School of Turism. I had a class mate who was the oldest in the class than the rest of us and we got close and shared humorous moments and she was wearing this powerhouse. She was wearing it right too. Three, maximum four spritzes. I find this fragrance imposing and opulent dew to smyrna and benzoin and olibanum. But sometimes it also wears me out as it is heavily ambery vanillic and this side of it reminds me even older memories from when still a kid I patiently was waiting for my mom to be finished with her hairdo at the hair salon. The hair spray they used was devastatingly toxic glue and smelled ambery vanillic always. I wanted to abandon the place as fast as a cat back then! When this hairspray liquid glue was sprayed in the environment of my mom's hairdresser's parlour. Yves Saint Laurent was advised to find another name for it because back in those days nobody wanted to advertise a product with such a controversial name, notorious name associated with drugs. Yves insisted not to change the name of the  fragrance and his intuition was proved right. Nowadays some folks might consider the fragrance too old fashioned, church insence smelling or call it a perfume for mature women and men. Call it whatever you like Yves still smiles as it was very successful! Have you ever had this fragrance? How often did you wear it? Did you love it? Did it trigger some polarising emotions to you? What is your experience and what thoughts did the fragrance triggered?