Black Opium Extreme Eau de Parfum vs No 27 Black Opium Extrait
Black Opium Extreme EDP
| EDP | Concentration | Extrait |
| F | Gender | F |
| 2021 | Year | - |
| ££ | Price Tier | £ |
No 27 Black Opium Extrait
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Which Should You Buy?
Black Opium Extreme polarises, as a true YSL flanker should. For some, it's the rich, sophisticated gourmand the original should have been; for others, a patchouli bomb with weak performance. Love it or hate it, it's certainly a statement.
No 27 captures YSL Black Opium's coffee-vanilla rock-chic core well, but the cedar-patchouli base is lighter and fades sooner than the original's dense, long-wearing gourmand dry-down.
Scent Profile
How They Wear
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Performance
Season and Occasion Fit
Seasons
A cold-weather scent - best worn in winter and autumn.
Occasions
This is a rich, warm, and somewhat heavy fragrance, making it less suitable for office or sport. Its seductive gourmand profile and reported strong projection (for some, at least) lend themselves perfectly to date nights, evening engagements, and cooler weather formal events.
Seasons
The dense coffee-vanilla gourmand suits cooler evenings best, too heavy and sweet for hot-weather daywear.
Occasions
A bold, rock-chic gourmand best suited to evenings out and dates; too heavy for the office or casual daytime wear.
Similarity Breakdown
How alike these two fragrances smell, scored from their full scent profiles.
Both lean coffee, vanilla, woody
Adds cedar and pink pepper, drops cacao pod
Where to buy
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