review Yves Saint Laurent OPIUM original formulation
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- review Yves Saint Laurent OPIUM original formulation
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Couldn't help myself. I've watched your video probably twenty times. Now, I've expanded my Opium collection. Along with my 1980 60ml splash, I have a 15ml parfum extrait (1981), a 7.5ml parfum extrait (1988) a 3/4 full 60ml splash (1989) and the grand matriarch, a 120ml EdT from 1979 with 22k gold lettering, and gold banding around the stopper. And I'm still scouring eBay for more. I'm helplessly addicted. It's spoiled all my modern perfumes for me.
Love the opulence you add to the joy of having and wearing this amazing perfume 💖💖💖🌅
I am so sadened it does not smell the same. The fragrance was so heady and so intoxicating and all over the smoke filled rooms at Studio 54 in the late 70's. We were getting high on the smell in the air as much as on anything else in there! 💗🙏🌺
Those were the days
@@SuperDacob ☺You got that right! 💗🙏🌺✌☺
I’m freaking out right now. My grandmother’s curio shop always smelled of incense, sandalwood, amber, candlesmoke, etc. Since I had started my fragrance journey, I had been piecing together notes that made up my memories of the smell of her store and her home.
Welp - turns out it was just YSL Opium the whole time!!! She must have bathed in it. (Or maybe it was just so much stronger she didn’t need much).
In tears now because the smell was so much of my childhood and I finally found it!! Ok - the hunt is officially on!
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Opium was what the smart stylish women wore to the discos of my youth, Tea Rose was what the girls who thought they were stylish and smart wore. There is no contest. Opium was beautiful and scented like temple incense the hot air of a 3:30 a.m. Studio 54 or even occasionally The Saint were all the men wore leather and one had the balls to wear Opium. Yes Dacob, it was a time of excess, decadence, drugs, sex and...Opium. The whole era between 1975 and 1980 was intoxicating and for me obliterated time and reality.
Loved your review. It took me back to after midnight when we would stumble out of Oil Can Harry's and throw rocks at the Hotel Essex neon sign trying to break the "el" and "Es" ... I can hear the beat of Freak Out (Le Freak C'est Chic) ruclips.net/video/S4tXVwZgizg/видео.html
Lanier Smith Wow! What am amazing comment Lanier! Sooo poetic! Makes me imagine I were there with you throwing those rocks! I would have sprayed each rock with Opium before throwing it though... just to set the mood! Very James Lee Byars... (another clue... hehe) xoxox
Oh yes... very James Lee Byars! We were doing our own performance art without realizing it! But after all, youth is performance art.
True! Couldn't agree more! Youth is performance art! xoxo
Lanier’s comment is 100% accurate. I remember the launch of St Laurent’s Opium - in New York, it was an EVENT. Pure decadence, reflecting the times. We all wore it - sex in a bottle. It was fabulous, fantasy. Scent is the most powerful and evocative sense. Why, oh, WHY are the corporate ‘suits’ RUINING these classic scents and producing the diluted and unrecognizable crap they are pushing on the public now? Maybe we need to boycott?
Beautifully described Sir Lanier. Thx for sharing your comment on Dacob's channel. Both you gentlemen are masters of the vintage parfum world. Bless.
I can't help but think of the eighties with such fond memories... God what a time for perfumery! It was truly otherworldly... walking into a mall and within an hour smelling Poison, GBH Extraordinary perfume, Opium, Obsession.... and those were just the ones that the girls were wearing the men's colognes weren't shabby at all either! Now it's all fruity sweet bubble gummy or clean clean clean. Nobody wants to be an individual everybody's got to play it safe... how boring! Boo Hiss Boo!!
Well said Tim! Those were the days!
I love the video Dacob , ans OPIUM is such a gorgeous perfume by YSL , although it is not my favorite and I absolutely adore the sweetness now of the new perfume Black Opium , the classic is still a statement , as always love and energy , keep up the amazing vids x
manny Lago Thank you dear Manny! Lots of love to you too! xoxo
Love this review! I have a 60ml splash, batch number 0088IP, manufactured in the year 1980. It's my crown jewel of my collection. I agree with you, I love the precise control a stopper provides. I have a couple vintage spray EdT's, but using the stopper adds luxury and romanticism to application. Thanks for this awesome review. Love your videos.
Thank you for giving a date for this. My grandma recently died and i found this exact bottle in her old apartment and i wanted to know which year it came out, thank u so much 😊
you always cheer me up and make me so happy with your passion and your knowledge :)
tjenapatte Thank you so much for your supportive and great positive vibe review tjenapatte! Makes me very hppy :) xoxo
I love that you quote Proust in a review of Opium. Perfection. I want you in my life. I love this fragrance on a guy. So sensual.
Thank you Troy :) xoxo
love your passion for the vintage treasure!
Thank you dear :) xoxo
I LOVE Opium and still wear it (albeit reformulated - le sigh) . Does that make me retro or old fashioned LOL? When my lovely mother passed a few years back, I found great comfort in wearing that fragrance reminding me of happy times with her - true Proustien Madeleine moments. So pleased you paid homage to this wonderful fragrance. Such a great review MM.
While this is certainly vintage, it is not the original formulation. I'm pretty sure I saw a barcode on the bottom of that box. That together with the batch code on the bottom of the bottle would make this a 1997 formulaton (the 60ml splash was discontinued in 2003).
Another amazing vintage pafum review brought to us by the fabulous Dacob. You roped me in again for another vintage. I'm headed to Ebay now to purchase a bottle of the original potion in the sassy original case. Carry on
Thank you MadamMorgan ♥️ Wishing you a fruitful and successful hunt on vintage Opium. ♥️
The original bottle was beautiful, so.... Chinese looking ;) Totally collectible, like a piece of jewelry, thank you for showing it to us! Opium is an amazing fragrance and indeed I find it nourishing, as well as ageless. For years though I've been put off by the opening and only recently started to appreciate it :) Perfect for the cold season. I've got the EDP because to me the EDT seems much 'poorer', mostly the sharp citruses (which you get in the opening of EDP as well) and some myrhh, but lacking the rich sweetness of the EDP.
Dear Alex. The EDT from the seventies and eighties was richer than the EDP of today. However, if I were to purchase this fragrance today I would also go for the EDP or perhaps even the pure PARFUM :) xoxo
I experienced this for the first time today and I can't get it's sultry opulence out of my mind, I think I'll need this. LOVING it. P.S. Great jacket!
+Diamond Diva Princess Yes! If you can, try to get a vintage bottle! I think it it amazing! So strong, seductive, but without needing to say anything at all! Pure hypnotic pleasure! xoxo
+Super Dacob Do you know what year they stopped making Opium Parfum in 3.5ml size?
3.5? I think the smallest sellable size was 7.5ml. They stopped round about 2005 to 2009...
+Super Dacob I am trying to find a vintage bottle of Opium per your suggestion and keep coming across one in this 3.5ml size: image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s5bb2422358cbaa3f/image/ifb56a80a22526903/version/1421780499/image.jpg - I can't seem to find any information on when it was produced.. maybe it was some sort of promotion or gift with purchase?
+Diamond Diva Princess Ah yes, I know this version. It was promotional and might have even been sold in some instances but it is a pure parfum and not the eau de toilette version, which I reviewed in my video. YOu could try it out although I do not know how exactly it would smell. but judging by the print and bottle, that one is a vintage Opium :) xoxo
What can move an otherwise effervescent, rose gold-bouffanted brain to conjure such a splendidly melancholic liaison between the dense enigma that is Opium and Proust's À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu? Whatever it is, I found it an utterly moving and poetic link. I ran to my mini fridge and took out my own bottle and dabbed away like a maniac. Brilliant review.
Hyden Royce Thank you Hyden! You have such a mesmerizing way with words! Hypnotic! xoxo
Super Dacob
I have a mesmerising way with words? Says the man who namechecks Proust in his fragrance reviews. What's next? La Rochefoucauld in a video about a backpack? Love ya, boo! :D
I think we are both nuts in such similar ways :) xoxo
I knew that from the first video of yours that I watched. ;-)
Dacob, how fun it would be to know you. I wish that I did. Do you know of the House of Dana? their perfumes were Tabu, Platine, 20carats, Emir in the Platine there were tiny flakes of platinum and in 20 carats there were flakes of gold,I feel you would have adored these perfumes I have a couple of bottles of 20 carats and they are so lovely.
Dana had some of the best ads from the thirties :) xoxo
Dear Dacob, could You, please, prepare a review of NU by Yves Saint Laurent? NU is probably the most mysterious fragrance ever created. The dark blue eau de toilette version is probably the best one. OPIUM and NU are sublime.
I just discovered the vintage EDT of Opium 🤤 Do you know how the vintage parfum compares to the EDT?
I found it!! That jacket is gorgeous too.. I’m posting this at the beginning of the video.. let me grab a drink and settle down
A really beautiful review.. As much as I love the live streams, I really enjoyed the intimacy of this video. I sprayed my Opium as I watched this (probably in the wrong month!) and sat back with my morning tea. I’m in such a heavy cocoon that I don’t want to go to work now! Xx
Love the whimsical hair and outfit! Much as you say Opium is addictive, I find your reviews to be. :-) BTW, do you like the movie Space Balls? Just wondering.
Thanks for sharing. xoxo
fmfv1 Dear Farah :) Thank you for always being so supportive! You give me so much good energy! Loooove it! Yes, I love space balls! haha :) xoxo
Which would you say is better for vintage Opium, the spray or this splash bottle? Any difference?
Why do they keep reformulating perfumes that were perfect the first time around?
To maximize profits, out of greed and in some cases because certain ingredients become no longer available in the future or certain ingredients become illegal for a variety of reasons.
Thanks Dacob, from Brazil.
+Diego Fernando de Oliveira Thank you for watching Diego :) Love to Brazil!!! xoxo
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Time trapped in a bottle…. ❤️
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You've got a little, "There's Something About Mary" action going on with your hair. You seem like a cool cat and I wish I knew you!!
How much did you pay for it? I have the exact same one.
Why did they change the cent the original was excellent. I sent for some online [paided a pretty penny] and when I opened it AHHH it sucked WHY WHY !!!!
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Come si apre questa bottiglia?
Twice in my life I've bought YSL Opium. The first time I noticed the product was disappearing from the bottle. I didn't get to use even half of it. It was the perfume with a glass stopper. Years later I bought it in spray form and AGAIN it disappeared from the bottle. I didn't get to actually use a fraction of it before it had disappeared. Now I think it's intentionally engineered to disappear this way, so as to induce me to buy it again and again. Not. I love the fragrance but will never bother with another purchase from a company I consider deceptive and dishonest.
What you mean with disappearing, evaporation? Thanks
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soz it was a dare
I can't believe I watched ur video (yawn)
To me it smells like an 80s mess with big hair and padded shoulders 😷
+Michael Jimenez except its from the seventies, but still a big load of spice in it. its a bomb for sure!
That's why it's so hot