Opium Parfum
The opening declares itself immediately: plum-tinged spice erupting through jasmine and bergamot, sweet but never polite.
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.
- Woody85
- Amber80
- Smoky75
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Plum
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
- Peach
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening declares itself immediately: plum-tinged spice erupting through jasmine and bergamot, sweet but never polite. Within minutes, cinnamon and patchouli emerge with the warmth of incense already rising from below, creating that signature thickness—part temple smoke, part boudoir powder. The peach note adds unexpected roundness without turning the composition fruity.
What follows is a slow descent into resinous amber. Myrrh, labdanum, and opoponax layer into a golden-brown base that feels both ancient and glamorous, supported by sandalwood and a whisper of animalic musk. The vanilla and benzoin keep it from turning austere, though this remains firmly in the oriental tradition—heavy, enveloping, unapologetic.
This is perfume as statement rather than accompaniment. It demands cool weather and evening hours, suiting those who prefer their fragrance full-bodied and their presence announced before they enter the room. Not a scent that adapts to you.
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.
