The bottles, thought to date from the early 19th century and which match the kind chemists used to sell the addictive drug laudanum, were found at an old haunt of the writer.

An old perfume bottle reveals what some ancient Romans smelled like. Chemical analyses of the contents of a 2,000-year-old flask found a familiar scent: patchouli.

A Night Out in a Bottle: Looking Back at the Fragrance That Defined Studio 54. By Lauren Valenti. ... there was no scent more synonymous with Studio 54 than YSL's iconic, best-selling Opium perfume.

An adver for the Yves Saint Laurent perfume Black Opium has been cleared by the advertising watchdog after claims that it glamourises drugs. | ITV National News ...