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Black Opium

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Inspired Oil Perfumes Black Opium is a perfume oil. Black Opium opens with Orange Blossom, Pink Pepper, and Pear, settles into a heart of Jasmine, Coffee, Licorice, and Almond, and dries down to a base of Cashmere Wood, Cedar, Patchouli, and Vanilla. Inspired Oil Perfumes's Black Opium carries a Statement verdict, a sweet-led wear.

Inspired By Black Opium leans hard on vanilla sweetness and lets the coffee note fade fast, so the addictive, slightly bitter roast-and-vanilla tension that made YSL's original so distinctive turns into a simpler sweet gourmand.
What our verdicts mean →
  • Seductive
  • Warm
  • Sweet
  • Magnetic
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Black Opium Perfume Oil bottle
Inspired by
Black Opium by Yves Saint Laurent
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Scent Profile

Composition

Timeline

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Top, heart and base are the brand's own listing, not a timing claim - the industry classifies a note by its character as much as by how fast it fades. Each curve here is modelled from that material's own volatility, so groups can overlap when a house lists long-lasting materials in its heart.

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Performance & Mood

Performance

Longevity
Moderate (4-6h)
Projection
Intimate
Intensity
Moderate

Mood

Mood Energising
Calming
Character Playful
Serious
Sentiment Uplifting
Brooding

When To Wear

Best Seasons

Best For:
Fall Winter

A sweet vanilla-coffee gourmand built for cold weather, when the warmth reads inviting rather than heavy.

Best Occasions

Best For:
Date
Also Works:
Formal

Sweet and a little seductive, it suits evening dates and dressed-up settings over daytime casual wear.

Declarable allergens

We derive these from the materials behind this fragrance's notes, not from the bottle. Each one is likely, not confirmed. The list is partial - the box can name others.

Declarable under EU Annex III

  • Bitter almond Benzaldehyde from Almond
  • Vanillin from Vanilla

The large name is the everyday one. The small name is the INCI form on the box, so you can compare the two. Reactions differ between people. A patch-test panel is not a ranking of risk. How we derive this

Ethics and formulation

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  • Cruelty-free Brand-stated Inspired Oil Perfumes says so · no third-party certification found · Read the claim
Alcohol-free An oil-based perfume · that format has no alcohol carrier

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About

Black Opium built its reputation on a genuinely clever contrast: bitter, roasted coffee pushed up against sweet vanilla and licorice, with pink pepper and jasmine adding lift. It is meant to feel a little dangerous, not just sweet. This oil reproduces the vanilla-almond-licorice sweetness well and it wears warm and appealing, but the coffee note is noticeably softer and fades within the first while, tipping the whole balance toward straightforward gourmand sweetness rather than the original's bitter-sweet edge. The cedar-cashmere wood base is present but quiet, so what is left is a pleasant vanilla-almond scent that shares Black Opium's sweetness but not its addictive tension.

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