Belle d'Opium Eau de Parfum Éclat
White florals — gardenia, jasmine, lily — announce themselves up front, joined by star anise whose licorice character prevents this from reading as a simple white floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Tobacco65
- Amber65
- Patchouli55
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Star Anise
- Incense
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readWhite florals — gardenia, jasmine, lily — announce themselves up front, joined by star anise whose licorice character prevents this from reading as a simple white floral. The heart reveals the composition's real ambition: incense and tobacco cast a smoky, intimate shadow over a ripe peach and orange blossom accord.
The base is dense and warm — sandalwood, amber, and patchouli accumulating into something full and persistent. Belle d'Opium Éclat leans further into the original Opium territory than its predecessor, trading fresh florals for smoke and resin. This is a fragrance with genuine weight and presence, suited to evening use and cooler months.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
