Black Opium Nuit Blanche
The opening strikes with sharp anise and pink pepper, a cold jolt that cuts through the sweetness you might expect from the Black Opium lineage.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Vanilla70
- Musk60
- Black Pepper45
- Sandalwood40
- Orange35
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes with sharp anise and pink pepper, a cold jolt that cuts through the sweetness you might expect from the Black Opium lineage. It's brighter and more crystalline than the original, with a frost-kissed quality that justifies the "nuit blanche" name—a sleepless night rendered in scent.
As it develops, orange blossom and peony soften the edges without turning floral in any conventional sense. The coffee note remains present but restrained, more suggestion than full espresso shot. What emerges is vanilla and white musk woven with sandalwood, still gourmand but sheerer, less dense than its predecessor.
This is Black Opium reimagined for someone who found the original too heavy, too clubby, too much. The caramel sweetness stays muted, the spice keeps it from settling into pure comfort. It reads younger and more insouciant—skin-scent sweetness with an anise bite that lingers longer than expected.
