Black Opium Le Parfum — Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent

Black Opium Le Parfum

  • For women
  • Eau de Parfum
  • 2023

With Black Opium Le Parfum, Yves Saint Laurent composes a sweet without excess gourmand fragrance. It opens on coffee, orange blossom and cherry, reveals jasmine at its heart and rests on a base of vanilla and patchouli.

Main accords

Pyramid & evolution

Unofficial sources Data drawn from unofficial sources, not from the house: this pyramid (like the year and gender shown) may contain discrepancies.

  1. Opening First minutes

    Coffee · Orange blossom · Cherry

  2. Heart ~30 min to 2 h

    Jasmine

  3. Base Several hours

    Vanilla · Patchouli

What its composition says

  • 3 materials on top, 1 in the heart, 2 in the base: the three stages are of comparable size.
  • Cherry: its rarest material, which only 20 of the 1,980 perfumes analysed in the catalogue contain — about one in 99.
  • Vanilla: conversely, a material of the common core — 35% of the catalogue contains it.
  • Floral, gourmand, woody and fruity: 4 registers of raw materials share its palette, with floral supplying 2 of 6.

Frequencies measured on the Olfact catalogue only.

Scent profile

Estimates derived from the composition — not measured.

Wear time Good
7 to 9 h estimated on skin
Projection Generous
fills a room

Ideal seasons

  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Autumn
  • Winter

Time of day

  • Day
  • Evening

At ease in mild weather, 15 to 22 °C (59 to 72 °F).

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