Yves Saint Laurent

Opium Pour Homme EDP

Aromatic Oriental

Star AniseBlack CurrantSichuan PepperGalangaBourbon VanillaTolu BalsamAtlas Cedar

Notes checked against a published listing.

Reported longevity
Good
Reported sillage
Moderate
Typical occasion
Casual
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.

Across published reviews, most people register this first as opium.

Modelled profile

Star anise and ginger open bright before cinnamon settles into vanilla and tonka. The extrait concentration deepens the spice and sweetness a touch, still rounded and comfortable, with the anise threading a licorice note through soft woods.

Taste Profile

The Romantic archetype

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 Opium Pour Homme EDP smells, measured

On Zenyra's five taste axes, Opium Pour Homme EDP is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure, and reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.

Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.

Warmthwarm, close0.68

Opium Pour Homme EDP reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 77th percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.

Projectionmid-range0.60

Opium Pour Homme EDP 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.

Riskfamiliar0.09

Opium Pour Homme EDP is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is among the lowest in the catalogue for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.

Texturebalanced0.54

Opium Pour Homme EDP carries body without weight, present without filling a room. That is 71st percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.

Sweetnesslightly sweet0.55

Opium Pour Homme EDP carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 73rd 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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