Now what did I expect ???
It is the regular perfume (which I repurchased) with a touch of green. The dry down is the most pleasant point.
Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Illicit Green was released in 2022. A fruity floral gourmand that adds a little bit of a green figgy twist to the origina. It was created by Nathalie Lorson and has notes of fig leaf, mandarin, pear, fig, jasmine, orange blossom, bourbon vanilla, coffee and patchouli. It is an eau de parfum, edp.
Fragrantica - "This is coffee and fruity in the best possible ways! This is longer lasting than Black Opium and on par with Xtreme. Very good performance and you can smell it on yourself. Idk if I can smell fig but I smell a juicy fruit smell which is maybe fig but I can smell fig in other fragrances and it smells similar but this isn’t a sour smell it’s a very sweet in a good way coffee fragrance."
Fragrantica - "But I must say that what it smells like to me is a mix of the original with a whiff of pipe tobacco, rather than distinctly fruity and floral notes. And because the sweetness isn't as simply vanillic the coffee note stands out more than in the other flankers. Not to say it isn't still vanilla-dominant, because it is."
Fragrantica - "It's much softer than the original BO, so if you're not up for the strong coffee that the original carries, this might be for you! This became really soft with a sweet touch on my skin. It's somehow kinda summery to my nose too. The mandarin and fig bring it nice sweetness and freshness into it."
It is the regular perfume (which I repurchased) with a touch of green. The dry down is the most pleasant point.