Black Opium Floral Shock
Black Opium Floral Shock takes the original's signature — the coffee-amber base — and covers it with something considerably lighter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Lemon
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Opium Floral Shock takes the original's signature — the coffee-amber base — and covers it with something considerably lighter. Pear and bergamot open with fresh fruitiness, freesia contributing a clean floral brightness that sets the tone before gardenia and orange blossom take over in the heart. Both florals are bright rather than heavy, the orange blossom lending a honeyed warmth. Coffee makes its appearance in the base as an underpinning rather than a statement: present, but faint, mostly adding depth to the amberwood. The result is softer and more daytime-wearable than the original — a purposeful evolution of the lineup rather than a simple rehash.
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.
