Black Opium Eau de Toilette (2018)
Black Opium Eau de Toilette (2018) leads with pear and citrus rather than the dense coffee accord of the original EDP — the coffee is present but diffused, lending a light roasted warmth to the fruity bergamot opening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Coffee
- Jasmine Sambac
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Opium Eau de Toilette (2018) leads with pear and citrus rather than the dense coffee accord of the original EDP — the coffee is present but diffused, lending a light roasted warmth to the fruity bergamot opening. The heart opens to jasmine sambac and orange blossom, softer and whiter than in the EDP, less saturated.
The base is deliberately pared back: patchouli and cedar without the vanilla-white flowers density of the full-strength version. The result is a morning-appropriate, office-viable take on the same general theme — still recognizably Black Opium's dark-floral DNA, but better suited to warmer months and close wear. The projection is contained, the longevity moderate.
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.
