Yves Saint Laurent Opium Eau de Toilette for Women is a classic oriental spicy fragrance. The topnotes are coriander, plum, citruses, mandarin orange, pepper, jasmine, cloves, west indian bay and bergamot. Heart notes are carnation, sandalwood, patchouli, cinnamon, orris root, peach, lily-of-the-valley and rose andthe base are labdanum, tolu balsam, sandalwood, opoponax, musk, coconut, vanilla, benzoin, vetiver, incense, cedar, myrrh, castoreum and amber. Opium can be used by women at all ages, but the biggest group of buyers are women from 35 years. Eau de Toilette Eau de Toilette is a type of perfume with a medium-low concentration of perfumed oils. It is made with around 10% concentrated aromatic compounds. It generally has more water than ethanol in it and is less concentrated than Eau de Parfum. You apply an Eau de Toilette on pulse point,so that the fragrance has an opportunity to blossom upwards around you. Yves Saint Laurent Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, who died in June 2008 at the age of 71, was not only the most influential designer of the second half of the twentieth century, he was also the most mythic, a dreamy, fragile creature with huge eyeglass frames (he wore nothing else in one iconic portrait) and a private life in frequent disarray.