Opium Yves Saint Laurent 2009 Eau de Toilette
The 2009 EDT repackaging of the Opium feminine kept the recognizable framework intact but rebottled it in a Fabien Baron and Stefano Pilati flacon.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Warm Spicy65
- Amber60
- Balsamic55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Myrrh
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Opoponax
By the editors · 2 min readThe 2009 EDT repackaging of the Opium feminine kept the recognizable framework intact but rebottled it in a Fabien Baron and Stefano Pilati flacon. Tangerine, bergamot and lily-of-the-valley open in a thinner, brighter register than the 1977 parent — already a sign of how the formula had been tightened across reformulations.
Myrrh, jasmine and carnation carry the heart; amber, patchouli and vanilla land soft. The result is recognizably Opium — the spice-amber-balsam pillar is intact — but at lower volume than the vintage. For wearers without the older bottles to compare against, this version reads as a workable oriental floral; for those who remember 1977, the difference is notable.
Scent twins
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