Opium Poesie de Chine pour Femme
This Opium flanker opens with ginger, tangerine, and mandarin — a spiced citrus pairing that feels more open-air market than Parisian boutique, which is clearly the intent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Vanilla60
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Tangerine
- Mandarin Orange
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readThis Opium flanker opens with ginger, tangerine, and mandarin — a spiced citrus pairing that feels more open-air market than Parisian boutique, which is clearly the intent. The floral heart is brief but present: magnolia's soapy white petals provide contrast against the jasmine, keeping the composition from becoming too heavy too quickly.
The base is recognizably Opium territory: myrrh, patchouli, and vanilla converge into a resinous oriental warmth anchored by musk. The Chinese-inspired angle shows in the ginger and the dried-fruit facets of the citrus top, but it remains firmly within the Opium lineage. This suits cool evenings — it's too warm for summer — and has the projection to fill a room.
Scent twins
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