Black Opium Nuit Blanche by Yves Saint Laurent Eau De Parfum For Women 90ml

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Opium poppies are popular and attractive garden plants, whose flowers vary greatly in color, size and form. It’s just as good as the original Black Opium, with those juicy pear notes that give way to creamy vanilla and invigorating black coffee.

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Elegance, daring and sensuality are hallmarks of Yves Saint Laurent scents, which are some of the most adored in the world. Following China's defeat in the Second Opium War in 1858, China was forced to legalize opium and began massive domestic production. This process began in 1804, when Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner first isolated morphine from the opium poppy. The overall effect of Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is an intoxicating blend of coffee and other gourmand notes like vanilla, with sultry patchouli and some spiciness. The great advantage of purified morphine was that a patient could be treated with a known dose—whereas with raw plant material, as Gabriel Fallopius once lamented, "if soporifics are weak they do not help; if they are strong they are exceedingly dangerous.In the past, smokers would use a specially designed opium pipe which had a removable knob-like pipe-bowl of fired earthenware attached by a metal fitting to a long, cylindrical stem. Manuscripts of Pseudo-Apuleius's 5th-century work from the 10th and 11th centuries refer to the use of wild poppy Papaver agreste or Papaver rhoeas (identified as P.

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We recognise the continued connection of First Nations people to the land, the waterways and to community and kin, and pay respects to Elders past and present. A massive destruction of opium by an emissary of the Chinese Daoguang Emperor in an attempt to stop opium smuggling by the British led to the First Opium War (1839–1842), in which Britain defeated China.Because the lethal dose of heroin was viewed as a hundred times greater than its effective dose, heroin was advertised as a safer alternative to other opioids.

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Laudanum ("worthy of praise") was originally the 16th-century term for a medicine associated with a particular physician that was widely well-regarded, but became standardized as " tincture of opium", a solution of opium in ethanol, which Paracelsus has been credited with developing. Therefore, the British tried to encourage Chinese opium use to enhance their balance, and they delivered it from Indian provinces under British control.

The Chinese war: an account of all the operations of the British forces from the commencement to the Treaty of Nanking. It’s one of the most popular perfumes from Zara and has been around for a long time, although it often appears in different packaging.

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Production is expected to increase in 2015 as new, improved seeds have been brought into Afghanistan. Comparative qualitative and quantitative determination of alkaloids in narcotic and condiment Papaver somniferum cultivars". Chinese emigrants to cities such as San Francisco, London, and New York City brought with them the Chinese manner of opium smoking, and the social traditions of the opium den.

citation needed] This is to allow trends in consumption to be monitored and production quotas allotted. Other methods of preparation (besides smoking), include processing into regular opium tincture ( tinctura opii), laudanum, paregoric ( tinctura opii camphorata), herbal wine (e. Opium-producing nations are required to designate a government agency to take physical possession of licit opium crops as soon as possible after harvest and conduct all wholesaling and exporting through that agency. Incisions are made three or four times at intervals of two to three days, and each time the "poppy tears", which dry to a sticky brown resin, are collected the following morning. Opium prohibition in China began in 1729, yet was followed by nearly two centuries of increasing opium use.