Yves Saint Laurent
Black Opium Intense
Oriental Vanilla · 2019 · Nathalie Lorson
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- 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
A bitter twist of absinthe sharpens the familiar coffee-and-vanilla warmth, with orange blossom softening the edges. Intense and a little heady, it darkens the original without losing its sweetness. Bold and warm.
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 Intense smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Black Opium Intense reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and is openly sweet, in gourmand territory.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Black Opium Intense reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 96th percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Black Opium Intense 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 Intense is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 31st percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Black Opium Intense feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Black Opium Intense is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 90th 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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