Black Opium Extreme
A more concentrated, shadow-draped variation on the familiar Black Opium blueprint.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Patchouli65
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Coffee
- Orange Blossom
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA more concentrated, shadow-draped variation on the familiar Black Opium blueprint. The coffee note is thicker here, roasted to near-char, giving the opening a bitter-sweet intensity that lingers longer than in the original. There's less sparkle, more weight.
As it settles, the orange blossom remains subdued, almost veiled by the heavier elements around it. The patchouli base is prominent from the start, earthy and slightly damp, anchoring everything with a grounded, almost brooding quality. The overall effect is dense and enveloping, like the original composition turned inward.
This reads as an evening fragrance for those who found Black Opium too bright or fleeting. The increased concentration means it wears close and persistent, with that signature coffee-patchouli pairing pushed into darker, more indolic territory. It demands cooler weather and a certain mood to match its unapologetic heaviness.
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.
