Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Nuit Blanche

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Nuit Blanche is the real designer fragrance, sold at most major retailers. When one of our partners carries it, a direct buy link shows up here. The "smells-like" alternatives below are for anyone who wants the profile for less.

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Nuit Blanche opens with Pink Pepper; a heart of Orange Blossom and Peony; drying down to Vanilla, Coffee, White Musk and Sandalwood, from notes Nordstrom (Yves Saint Laurent) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, floral, spicy, sweet, woody, musky, 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.

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

Amouage Dia (shares Peony, Orange Blossom, White Musk); Maison Alhambra La Charmante (shares Peony, Orange Blossom, Pink Pepper); Argos Pour Femme (shares Orange Blossom, White Musk, Pink Pepper). These share specific notes with Black Opium Nuit Blanche, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Black Opium Nuit Blanche'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 Nuit Blanche, and has its own page.

Black Opium Nuit Blanche reads as citrus, floral, spicy, sweet, woody, musky. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Tiziana Terenzi Afrodite, lattafa Ajwad and Lattafa Al Noble Safeer nearby. We rank them by how many of Black Opium Nuit Blanche's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Black Opium Nuit Blanche, and each has its own page.