Yves Saint Laurent
Black Opium
Oriental Vanilla · 2014 · Nathalie Lorson, Olivier Cresp
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Good
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Romantic/Evening
- Typical season
- Winter
These describe how the fragrance is generally reported to behave. Skin chemistry, weather and how much you apply all change it, so your own experience may differ.
Reviewed profile
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 Familiar Place
Found something that feels like home and never left.
Connection to yourself, your home, your people is what you are all about. The fragrance found you as much as you found it. May those connections remain firm.
How Black Opium smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Black Opium is openly sweet, in gourmand territory, and is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Black Opium sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 72nd percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
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. That is 75th percentile for projection across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Black Opium is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 21st percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Black Opium feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Black Opium is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 94th percentile for sweetness across 5,320 scored fragrances.
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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