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Black Opium(2014)
Yves Saint Laurent · Nathalie Lorson · Gourmand
At a glance
Marketed as a 'rock 'n' roll' reinterpretation of the 1977 Opium, built around a heavy coffee note that made it one of the most commercially dominant and widely imitated feminine gourmands of the 2010s.
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This scent's vanilla note relies on vanillin, the compound that made vanilla affordable worldwide — first synthesized in 1874.
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