Black Opium Exotic Illusion 2019
Pear and pink pepper open with a crisp, effervescent sparkle that quickly folds into orange blossom’s soapy brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Almond80
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Jasmine
- Almond
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readPear and pink pepper open with a crisp, effervescent sparkle that quickly folds into orange blossom’s soapy brightness. Jasmine and gardenia bloom next, their white petals dusted with roasted almond to create a creamy floral-nut accord; underneath, a restrained coffee note adds faint roasted bitterness that keeps the heart from turning cloying. As the vanilla surges it binds the almond into a marzipan layer, while cedar sharpens the edges and patchouli supplies a earthy cocoa undertone that lingers on fabric. Projection remains within arm’s length for six hours, then settles into a vanillic skin glow laced with soft woods. Cool autumn nights, casual dates, concerts under city lights.
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.
