Black Opium Over Red
Over Red leads with the coffee-vanilla core that defines the Black Opium series, adding orange blossom and jasmine's floral warmth in the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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
- Amber55
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Coffee
- Benzoin
- Orange Blossom
- Mandarin
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readOver Red leads with the coffee-vanilla core that defines the Black Opium series, adding orange blossom and jasmine's floral warmth in the heart. Mandarin adds a sweet citrus brightness at the surface, benzoin — balsamic, warm, slightly honeyed — bridging the floral heart and the vanilla-coffee base. Madagascar vanilla delivers a more complex, slightly raw resinous quality than synthetic vanillin. Without the white tea note of the original, Over Red reads richer and denser. It's a good winter evening flanker: amber-warm, florally sweet, and familiar enough to please fans of the line while offering the additional depth the Parfum concentration demands.
Scent twins
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