★★★★★
"A masterclass in restraint."
The cardamom-mint top reads as new, fresh on a parfum is a difficult trick. I would wear this in the back of a car, in Cairo, in November.
STRONGER
YVES SAINT LAURENT · 2014
Black Opium
Eau de Parfum.
Family
Oriental Vanilla
Wear
For Her
Concentration
EDP
Perfumer
Nathalie Lorson · Marie Salamagne · Olivier Cresp · Honorine Blanc
Released
2014
Vault arrival
April 2025
"Coffee, vanilla, white flowers — the dark sweet bestseller."
EGP 1,300.00EGP 650.00SAVE 50%
§ III · VIP PACKAGING
A bespoke presentation crafted by request.
Price on application.
§ I · the composition
An unfolding,
read from
head to base.
The first ten minutes belong to cardamom and mint. The heart settles around the half-hour. Tonka and brown sugar will see you to the morning.
Head
Pink Pepper
Orange Blossom
Pear
Heart
Coffee
Jasmine
Bitter Almond
Base
Vanilla
Patchouli
Cedar
Cashmeran
§ II · the accord profile
The shape of it.
Sampled from 5,840 community wearings, normalised against the rest of the amber-fougère family.
Vanilla
86
Sweet
78
Coffee
74
White Floral
58
§ III · performance
Longevity
8.0/10
Sillage
7.6/10
Projection
7.4/10
Value
9.0/10
Season
Spring
46
Summer
36
Fall
88
Winter
94
Hour
Morning
28
Afternoon
46
Evening
92
Night
94
§ IV · the room speaks
1,883
wearings.
1,092 in love.
Polled across the Gharam wearer community over twelve months. Members vote only after seven days of wear, never before.
Impressions aggregated from external sources, shown without names.
Love
1,092.00 · 58%
Like
320.00 · 17%
Neutral
94.00 · 5%
Dislike
377.00 · 20%
§ V · adjacent compositions
From the same shelf.
§ VI · witnesses
Worn, and written down.
Impressions aggregated from external sources, shown without names.
★★★★★
"The vanilla is grown-up."
Brown sugar without the cloy. It dries down to a tonka skin-scent that my wife noticed three nights running.
★★★★★
"Better than the EDT, by a wide margin."
Deeper, drier, longer. Worth the upcharge, and Gharam's batch was a recent one, October '25.