Yves Saint Laurent
Black Opium
Oriental Vanilla · 2014 · Nathalie Lorson, Olivier Cresp
Longevity
Good
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Winter
Bitter coffee meets sweet vanilla and a swirl of jasmine, grounded by dry cedar. It's the addictive push-pull of dark and sweet that made it a modern staple. Warm, glossy and full of energy.
Taste Profile
The Romantic
The Open Sweet
What you see is what you get. Simply sweet.
Straightforward and consistent, exactly where you want it. Treat yourself. Who doesn't love a bit of sweetness?
See your own Taste Map →How Black Opium smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Black Opium reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and is openly sweet, in gourmand territory.
Black Opium reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.
Black Opium sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Black Opium is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure.
Black Opium arrives seamless, as a single impression rather than parts.
Black Opium is openly sweet, in gourmand territory.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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