Black Opium Pure Illusion 2017
A 2017 limited bottle re-release of the 2014 Black Opium with the formula left intact — pear and pink pepper open onto coffee, almond, jasmine and licorice in the heart, then vanilla, patchouli, cedar and cashmere wood land in the base.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Vanilla75
- Sweet70
- Soft Spicy50
- Almond
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Licorice
- Jasmine
- Almond
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readA 2017 limited bottle re-release of the 2014 Black Opium with the formula left intact — pear and pink pepper open onto coffee, almond, jasmine and licorice in the heart, then vanilla, patchouli, cedar and cashmere wood land in the base. The licorice in particular threads the whole thing together, keeping the coffee from going purely gourmand.
The wear pattern matches its parent: a sharp early hour of bright synthetic pear-coffee, then a slow flatten into a cashmere-vanilla skin scent that lasts well. Cashmere wood softens the patchouli, which is the difference between this composition and the heavier Black Opium flankers. Aimed squarely at evening and cool-weather wear.
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.
