Opium Fleur de Shanghai
Mandarin and bergamot open with a citrus brightness that keeps the Opium DNA recognizable but noticeably lighter.
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.
- Amber70
- Vanilla60
- Patchouli55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Mandarin Orange
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Myrrh
- Star Jasmine
- Carnation
By the editors · 2 min readMandarin and bergamot open with a citrus brightness that keeps the Opium DNA recognizable but noticeably lighter. As the opening fades, magnolia and star jasmine move to the center with carnation adding a faint spiced edge, while myrrh gives the heart a resinous thread rather than the usual incense-dark depth.
The amber-vanilla-patchouli base is the Opium family's calling card, though softer here than in the original — warm, rounded, without the narcotic weight. This was designed as a spring flanker, and it earns that designation: it carries the lineage without the intensity, suited for warmer months when the parent formulation would overwhelm.
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.
