Black Opium Shine On 2019
Pear, pink pepper, and orange blossom open with sweet-fruity brightness cut by a light peppery spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Almond70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Jasmine
- Almond
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readPear, pink pepper, and orange blossom open with sweet-fruity brightness cut by a light peppery spice. Orange blossom brings a white floral quality that transitions naturally into the jasmine heart.
Almond and coffee introduce a gourmand dimension — slightly roasted, nutty, distinctly indulgent. Vanilla in the base amplifies the sweetness, cedar adds woody dryness, and patchouli grounds the composition with earthy depth.
This is a coffee-almond gourmand on a soft floral-woody base — a familiar archetype worn here with pear and pink pepper freshness up front. It projects comfortably and carries well into the evening. Best for casual or date contexts in cooler months.
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.
