Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Intense

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Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Intense opens with Coffee; a heart of Orange Blossom; drying down to Absinthe, from notes Nordstrom (Yves Saint Laurent) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, floral, 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 Intense runs $123.89 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 Intense by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Black Opium Intense, 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 Intense 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.

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Glitter (shares Coffee, Orange Blossom); Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Neon (shares Coffee, Orange Blossom); Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Nuit Blanche (shares Coffee, Orange Blossom). These share specific notes with Black Opium Intense, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Black Opium Intense'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 Intense, and has its own page.

Black Opium Intense reads as citrus, floral. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Paco Rabanne 1 Million, Xerjoff 1861 Renaissance and Carolina Herrera 212 nearby. We rank them by how many of Black Opium Intense's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Black Opium Intense, and each has its own page.