Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Illicit Green

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Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Illicit Green opens with Coffee; a heart of Mandarin; drying down to Fig, from notes Nordstrom (Yves Saint Laurent) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, green, fruity, the coarse families Nordstrom (Yves Saint Laurent) 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 Illicit Green runs $135.09 at FragranceNet.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them.

We rank the "smells-like" alternatives to Black Opium Illicit Green by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Black Opium Illicit Green, 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 Illicit Green 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.

Nishane Wulong Cha (shares Fig, Mandarin); Mancera Gold Incense (shares Coffee, Mandarin); Xerjoff Golden Moka (shares Coffee, Mandarin). These share specific notes with Black Opium Illicit Green, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Black Opium Illicit Green'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 Illicit Green, and has its own page.

Black Opium Illicit Green reads as citrus, green, fruity. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Afnan 9 Am, Afnan 9 Am Dive and Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio Intense nearby. We rank them by how many of Black Opium Illicit Green's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Black Opium Illicit Green, and each has its own page.