YSL · 2014 · Nathalie Lorson, Marie Salamagne, Olivier Cresp and Honorine Blanc

Black Opium

VersionEau de Parfum

YSL says

You’ll smell black coffee accord, orange blossom, cedarwood and patchouli.

More from YSL’s description

It also mentions thrilling coffee, ultra feminine white flowers, sensual vanilla, adrenaline-rich coffee, vanilla, white flowers, Coffee, Vanilla Bourbon, Jasmine, Bourbon vanilla infusion and patchouli heart.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Black Opium’s scent picture, a draft: coffee, orange blossom, cedar, patchouli, vanilla, jasmine drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Black Opium, top notes: coffee

Heartthe first hours

Black Opium, heart: Orange blossom, Jasmine

Dry-downhours later

Black Opium, dry-down: Cedar, Patchouli, Vanilla, Coumarin

On the label

What’s inside it

11 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender7 florals1 sweet

Not in Ingredients yet1

Cinnamyl alcohol, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

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