Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium

You can buy the genuine Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium straight from FragranceShop.com. The real bottle comes first; the accessible alternatives below are there if you'd rather spend less.

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium reads as floral, sweet, the coarse families Yves Saint Laurent (official) cites. How it wears depends on your skin and the concentration. We only publish notes and accords we can trace to a source.

The genuine Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium runs $68.95 at FragranceShop.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them; a real 5ml sample is $3.97; the "smells-like" alternatives start around $12.95.

We rank the "smells-like" alternatives to Black Opium by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Black Opium, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is listed as a women's fragrance by the retailer. That's a marketing label, not a rule: fragrance has no gender, and plenty of "women's" scents are worn by anyone. We show how it's sold and leave the wearing to you.

Unbranded Black Opium is the alternative we list first for Black Opium, ranked on shared cited accords then price, at $12.95 against $68.95 for the genuine bottle. Most alternative houses publish no scent profile of their own, so for those we show the original's cited accords rather than claim an independently verified match. It's meant to evoke Black Opium, not replicate it, so we link the real bottle first and let you judge for yourself.

Yes. We also cover Black Opium Le Parfum, each with its own page. Concentration changes the strength and often the balance of the scent, so we list the versions separately.

Nishane Nefs (shares Whiskey, Jasmine, Vanilla); Mancera Gold Incense (shares Coffee, Jasmine, Vanilla); Mancera Amber Fever (shares Whiskey, Jasmine). These share specific notes with Black Opium, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Black Opium's cited notes they actually share, weighting rarer notes heavier than ubiquitous ones. Each is its own fragrance with real, sourced notes, not a copy of Black Opium, and has its own page.

Black Opium reads as floral, sweet. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Paco Rabanne 1 Million Elixir, Carolina Herrera 212 Sexy and Carolina Herrera 212 VIP nearby. We rank them by how many of Black Opium's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Black Opium, and each has its own page.