BlotterAll houses

Black Opium

Yves Saint Laurent, 2014, for women

coffee, gourmand, vanilla and sweet

Explore in Blotter

Notes

Top notes

  • Pear Watery, sweet-green fruit with soft, rounded edges.
  • Pink Pepper Bright, rosy and peppery, lighter and fruitier than black pepper.
  • Orange Blossom Creamy, honeyed white flower with a green, citrusy lift.

Heart notes

  • Coffee Roasted, bitter and dark, like freshly ground beans.
  • Jasmine Sweet, heady white blossom with an indolic, almost animal warmth.
  • Bitter Almond Sweet, marzipan-like and slightly cherry-like nut.
  • Licorice Sweet, dark and anise-like root with a cooling, herbal sweetness.

Base notes

  • Vanilla Warm, creamy, sweet and slightly smoky, like a custard-soft cloud.
  • Patchouli Earthy, damp and chocolatey, dark leaf with a camphor edge.
  • Cedar Dry, pencil-shaving wood, clean and slightly smoky.
  • Cashmere Wood A warm, velvety wood effect, smooth and slightly musky.

Smells like Black Opium

  1. Latte Malaya Marina Rituals
    55% similar, shares coffee and vanilla
  2. Nuit Marina Rituals
    54% similar, shares coffee, pear and vanilla
  3. This is Her! Zadig & Voltaire
    52% similar, shares cashmere wood, pink pepper and jasmine
  4. The Only One Dolce&Gabbana
    52% similar, shares coffee, patchouli and vanilla
  5. Black Opium Le Parfum Yves Saint Laurent
    52% similar, shares coffee, pear and orange blossom
  6. Caramel Macchiato Malaya Perfumery
    50% similar, shares coffee and vanilla
  7. Chocolate Greedy Montale
    50% similar, shares coffee and vanilla
  8. Good Girl Carolina Herrera
    48% similar, shares cashmere wood, coffee and orange blossom
  9. Intoxicated Kilian
    46% similar, shares coffee and vanilla
  10. Intense Café Montale
    44% similar, shares coffee and vanilla
  11. Sì Passione Giorgio Armani
    44% similar, shares pear, pink pepper and cedar
  12. Replica Coffee Break Maison Margiela
    43% similar, shares coffee, orange blossom and cedar