Yves Saint Laurent will launch Black Opium Neon, a new spicy gourmand fragrance for women. Black Opium Neon is a flanker to 2014's Black Opium, which was a flanker to 1977's Opium.
Black Opium Neon is a new twist on the classic Eau de Parfum. With adrenaline-rich coffee, sparkling orange blossom, and mesmerizing dragon fruit accord, it is a vibrant and indulgent perfume that’s the perfect combination of seductive and sweet.
Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Neon will be available later this month at Sephora, in 10, 30 and 75 ml Eau de Parfum.
(via sephora)
This is a pretty eye catching advertisement. I will try it when I see it.
Can’t hurt. Probably.
Black Neon?Do the marketeers even read their own word salads.
I like Black Opium Neon better than Black Opium Floral Shock, but I could not say why exactly.
So I guess that would be black poppy flowers (which I don’t think exist) that plugged into badly wired electrical sockets?
Yeah, pretty much.
Dragonfruit. No.
Sounds like original black Opium which sounds like Poison girl which sounds like Joy. Cheap fruity floral candied patchouli hoping to cash in on a powerhouse name while smelling like something 14 year olds get bored of within a year or two. Black opium almost enrages me, so a flanker gets me steaming. I know if I dare to walk into Macy’s at this time of year, I’ll be unwillingly wearing this funk when I leave.
Bah humbug. None of this stuffs is Opium! And I’m not even that old yet. Get off my lawn.
Oh, but there must be some good fragrance with dragonfruit, even if offhand I can’t think of what it is 🙂
Brittney Spears Secret Fantasy du Jour . I just made that up, but wouldn’t be surprised if they pounce on it. With notes of Dragonfruit creme, sugared red berries, patchouli kiss, and magnolia sugar accord. Everyone has a fantasy. What is yours, today?
I don’t recall dragon fruit as having a notable fragrance. I will check next time I see some in the store.
Totally agree, Baby Dumpling – I am old enough to have worn the original Opium back in the mid 70s when i was a mere 20 years of age! I’ve posted a story here before about me wearing Opium & my two flatmates wearing Madame Rochas & Rive Gauche respectively – I seem to remember Robin came back with a kind & amusing (not to mention correct) comment that our flat must have smelled divine!
I had a bottle at 18. EDT, 1992. I can still smell it and can’t find anything like it. It was potent but airy, very orange spicy. No the current recipe isn’t the same, at all. I’m no perfume expert, and have a very basic tiny collection, but I think this was one of the all time greats. Don’t riff on it with sweet junk. If I could wear a proper perfume at 18, so can this current crop.
I wouldn’t call you ‘no expert’ if you had the good taste to wear the original at 18! You’re so right, current recipe is nothing like the original, & I completely agree that the original is indeed one of the all time greats. Too many people these days influenced by ‘celeb’ endorsed smells – very annoying indeed!
Call me crazy, but I kind of love grumpy, pessimistic, jaded rants from fellow perfume lovers!
Ha ha me too!! Just like when my very modest and composed collegue starts to swear….
Yet another ‘edgy’ ad campaign relying on the millenial version of “T&A”… Tatts and attitude. ?
The West Side Story production I saw was supposedly updated. It featured an extraordinary cast (mostly millenials) in which the men had facial tats (but Maria was still pure and unblemished in a white dress). Despite their tats, the plot was still stuck in an earlier era.
Notwithstanding the facial tat’s The show’s “gang members” still feared that someone might bring a knife or a gun to a “rumble” as in the 1960 classic movie. Today’s young millenials are afraid someone will bring a semi automatic to middle school.