Black Opium Eau de Toilette
The coffee arrives first, but softer than in the original parfum—more roasted pear than espresso shot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky55
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Coffee
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe coffee arrives first, but softer than in the original parfum—more roasted pear than espresso shot. Black currant adds a tart brightness that cuts through the sweetness, while mandarin lifts the composition into daylight territory. This is the Opium lineage reimagined for warmer weather and earlier hours.
As it settles, orange blossom and jasmine emerge with surprising clarity, given the darker coffee base. The florals aren't buried under gourmand weight; they breathe. The coffee note lingers as a backdrop rather than dominating, creating an aromatic floral that tilts sweet without becoming syrupy.
White musk in the base keeps everything clean and relatively close to skin. Less evening drama than its parfum sibling, more suited to someone who wants the black coffee-floral signature in a version that won't announce itself across a room. A lighter hand with familiar ideas.
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.
