Belle d'Opium
Where the original Opium pursued drama above all else, Belle d'Opium opens with gardenia and jasmine — florist-clean and slightly dewy before the deeper materials stir.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Amber75
- Tobacco65
- Vanilla65
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Peach
- Gardenia
- Incense
- Jasmine
- Lily
By the editors · 2 min readWhere the original Opium pursued drama above all else, Belle d'Opium opens with gardenia and jasmine — florist-clean and slightly dewy before the deeper materials stir. Incense begins threading through the heart alongside ripe peach and tobacco, the latter adding a dry, slightly bitter edge that keeps the sweetness honest. The combination of white flowers and tobacco creates an unusual tension: something between a chapel and a late-night garden.
Sandalwood, vanilla, and patchouli form the base — warm, round, and persistent. Amber pulls everything forward on skin. It's full-bodied and confident, but softer at the edges than its name implies.
Scent twins
In this family
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