YSL · 2024 · Nathalie Lorson, Marie Salamagne, Honorine Blanc and Olivier Cresp

Black Opium Over Red

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Juicy cherry over roasted coffee and white flowers, settling into warm vanilla.

YSL says

You’ll smell juicy cherry, coffee, white flowers and vanilla.

More from YSL’s description

It also mentions Coffee (extract), Feminine white flowers and Juicy cherry accord.

The house’s page

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The drawn Black Opium Over Red bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

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

Top noteswhen you spray it

Black Opium Over Red, top notes: Citral (lemon)

Heartas it settles

Black Opium Over Red, heart: Cherry, White flowers, Isoeugenol (clove)

Dry-downwhat stays

Black Opium Over Red, dry-down: Coffee, Vanilla, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

15 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 & lavender8 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins1 spices1 powder

5 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

Encens SuaveMatière Première · shares coffee and vanillaabout $403 for 100 ml · about twice Black Opium Over Red’s $174
A*MenMugler · shares coffee and vanilla$98 for 100 ml · about half of Black Opium Over Red’s $174
Black Opium Pink GlazeYSL · shares coffee and vanilla$150 for 90 ml · about the same as Black Opium Over Red’s $174
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.