Opium Pour Homme
Opium pour Homme opens with a sharp pulse of star anise—licorice-dark and medicinal, cooled by tart blackcurrant that cuts through the sweetness.
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.
- Woody65
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Star Anise
- Black Currant
- Amber
- Atlas Cedar
- Atlas Cedar
- Ginger
By the editors · 2 min readOpium pour Homme opens with a sharp pulse of star anise—licorice-dark and medicinal, cooled by tart blackcurrant that cuts through the sweetness. It announces itself clearly, then settles into something warmer and less confrontational. The anise fades but never vanishes, threading through the dry-down like a distant memory of absinthe.
Atlas cedar anchors the base with smooth, pencil-shaving woodiness that feels more composed than raw. The overall effect is spiced and slightly austere, a masculine counterpoint to the opulent original Opium rather than a direct translation. It wears close to the skin, formal without feeling stuffy.
This suits someone drawn to oriental spice but wary of cloying sweetness. It's quieter than the name suggests—less opium den, more gentleman's cabinet stocked with exotic curiosities.
Scent twins
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