Yves Saint Laurent
Opium Black
Oriental Spicy
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
Vanilla and coffee build a warm, sweet richness, with jasmine softening the top and patchouli adding earthy depth. It's dark, cozy and gourmand-leaning. Full and enveloping.
Taste Profile
The Natural
The Easy Choice
Always works, always easy.
The one to reach for in a hurry. It fits the moment because it always does. Don't think, just go for it.
How Opium Black smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Opium Black is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure, and feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Opium Black sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 56th percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Opium Black 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 79th percentile for projection across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Opium Black is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 6th percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Opium Black feels thick in the air, saturated and physically there. That is 80th percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Opium Black carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 72nd 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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