Opium Secret de Parfum
A brief brightness from lily of the valley and bergamot dissolves quickly into a single-note jasmine heart — compact, almost stark in its floral simplicity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Vanilla70
- Amber70
- Floral60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lily of the Valley
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Opoponax
By the editors · 2 min readA brief brightness from lily of the valley and bergamot dissolves quickly into a single-note jasmine heart — compact, almost stark in its floral simplicity. Then the base asserts itself: opoponax brings a warm resinous sweetness alongside amber and vanilla, softened further by patchouli's earthy undertone.
This is a quieter relative of the 1977 original, oriented toward skin-proximity rather than projection. The spiced incense edge of its parent is replaced here with soft balsam and floral restraint. The oriental structure remains fully intact — just pulled closer, made more personal. Suits evening wear in cool weather, anyone who finds classic Opium too dense for daily use.
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.
