Opens with a sharp snap of pink pepper before coffee rushes in and dominates the heart alongside jasmine and orange blossom — not a clean floral coffee but something roasted and slightly dark. Projection is bold for the first few hours, with heavy sillage that announces itself in a room. The dry-down softens considerably as vanilla takes over, with patchouli grounding it just enough to avoid pure sweetness. Warm, enveloping, and unsubtle — best worn on cool evenings by anyone who wants to be noticed before they walk in.
Coffee-vanilla-tonka territory overlapping Black Opium; sweeter and less florals-forward but highly wearable.
Dossier's direct Black Opium counterpart; coffee note is restrained, vanilla leads.
feminine
A dark, inky vanilla-and-coffee gourmand (also sold as 'Supreme Vanilla') that tracks Black Opium's sweet coffee-and-vanilla signature.
unisex
ALT Fragrances sells Fleur Noire as its version of Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium.
feminine
The top-scored match we list, Kayali Vanilla 28, has a provisional accuracy 8 for $65–$95 — a score we can't yet back with a source you can check. Treat it as a lead worth sampling rather than a verified stand-in; the original stays the reference.
The top dupe of Yves Saint Laurent's Black Opium is Vanilla 28 by Kayali, provisionally scored at 8/10 for accuracy and 7/10 for longevity. At $65 against the $174 original, it saves roughly $109 per bottle. Below: 3 more dupes, each marked with how well its score is backed.
The highest-scored dupe we list for Black Opium is Vanilla 28 by Kayali. Its scores are provisional (8/10 accuracy, longevity 7/10): we do not yet have a source for them that you can open and check.
Black Opium by Yves Saint Laurent is a floral/gourmand/oriental scent built on pink pepper, orange blossom, jasmine, coffee, vanilla, patchouli. Those notes define its character — browse any of them above to find fragrances that share the same profile.
The closest scents to Black Opium by shared notes are Clive Christian Strange Heavens Out of the Blue, Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Pink Glaze, Tom Ford Rose Prick. See the full "similar fragrances" list below — each is ranked by how many notes it shares with Black Opium.
Dupes are rated on two independent dimensions: scent accuracy (how closely it matches the original) and longevity (how long it lasts on skin). Scores come from owner reports on Reddit r/fragrance, r/fragranceclones and Fragrantica, and each is marked community-scored, provisional or not scored. They are never averaged into a single number — accuracy and longevity are separate decisions.
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