YSL · 2023 · Nathalie Lorson, Marie Salamagne, Olivier Cresp and Honorine Blanc

Black Opium Le Parfum

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
YSL asks $174 for 90 ml
30 ml$99
50 ml$140
90 ml$174
150 ml$220

The houseFor women

VersionParfum

Coffee over a bouquet of white flowers, settling on a quartet of vanillas with powdery almond and soft woods.

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The drawn Black Opium Le Parfum bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Black Opium Le Parfum’s scent picture, a draft: white flowers, vanilla, coffee, almond, coumarin (new-mown hay), citral (lemon) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Black Opium Le Parfum, when you spray it: Almond, Citral (lemon)

As it settlesheart notes

Black Opium Le Parfum, as it settles: White flowers, Cinnamal (cinnamon)

What staysdry-down notes

Black Opium Le Parfum, what stays: Vanilla, Coffee, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

13 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender7 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

4 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Amore CaffèMancera · shares vanilla, coffee and almondabout $174 for 120 ml
Qimmah for WomenLattafa · shares vanilla, coffee and almondabout $22 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Black Opium Le Parfum’s $174
Good GirlCarolina Herrera · shares coffee and almond$137 for 50 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.