Opium Yves Saint Laurent 2009 Parfum
A single bergamot note leads before yielding entirely to amber and opoponax — the opening is brief and citric, setting the stage for a dense, resinous base.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Balsamic80
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Myrrh
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Opoponax
By the editors · 2 min readA single bergamot note leads before yielding entirely to amber and opoponax — the opening is brief and citric, setting the stage for a dense, resinous base. The opoponax contributes a balsamic sweetness with soft anise-adjacent undertones, while amber provides warmth and depth.
This is a concentrated, meditative composition that operates almost entirely in its base from early on. The result is a heavy oriental signature — close to the skin, long-lasting, and without structural complexity but with considerable density. Better suited to cold weather and evening wear, where the resinous warmth reads as intentional rather than suffocating.
Scent twins
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