Opium Eau d'Orient 2008 - Poésie de Chine
Ginger snaps open with a dry, peppery heat that quickly folds into creamy magnolia petals dusted with jasmine indole.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- White Floral70
- Vanilla60
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Myrrh
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGinger snaps open with a dry, peppery heat that quickly folds into creamy magnolia petals dusted with jasmine indole. The white florals swell, their lactonic edges softening the spice while myrrh seeps up from below, lending a resinous, slightly medicinal depth that keeps the bouquet from turning sugary. As skin warms, vanilla and patchouli lock into an ambered cord, musk blurring the seams so the scent hovers close like silk lining. Projection stays polite, a scented veil rather than a trail, making it office-safe yet quietly exotic. Dry-down is a muted ambery skin musk with a faint patchouli earthiness that lingers six hours in.
Scent twins
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