7 Best YSL Black Opium Dupes

Zara Gardenia Review

Zara is a well-known fashion brand with several popular dupes under its belt. The company offers a comprehensive and varied range of spectacular perfume dupes, which are some of the best in the market. 

With Gardenia, Zara creates a lighter, more floral version of Black Opium. You can wear this casual scent every day — to work, to a simple date, or when you’re going on a walk.  

Gardenia’s take on the original Black Opium is a feminine scent featuring orange blossom and a base containing coffee and vanilla.

This Black Opium smell-alike is sweet yet strong with a lovely blend of florals and gourmand accords, just like the original.

This perfume smells amazing and has decent longevity. It dries down to a more decadent coffee, underlain with cozy vanilla. And typical of all Zara Scents, Gardenia Eau de Parfum comes at an affordable price which is great considering its remarkable sillage.

Ambery Vanilla By Dossier Review

Dossier’s scents are distinctive in that they’re not animal-tested. They’re also ideal for vegans. The brand only uses sustainably-sourced ingredients, making this an eco-friendly product. You can wear this knowing that you are supporting a worthy cause by doing so. 

Ambery Vanilla’s chief pride is an uncanny ability to hold up to YSL Black Opium. It contains notes similar to the YSL fragrance, though the scent is lighter and slightly less gourmand. Dossier’s version is also more floral-oriented, cheaper, and comes in a classy but minimalistic glass bottle.

YSL’s Black Opium inspired this perfume. It unfurls with a burst of pear with hints of licorice, evolving into a heart of jasmine flowers and mandarin (orange blossom) before ending with an enticing combination of warm black coffee and vanilla.

Ambery Vanilla will work for you if you enjoy sweet gourmands with a rich coffee aroma. It lasts long and projects well.

PB Parfums Belcam Eau De Parfum Review

This is another fragrance whose scent profile featuring pink peppercorn, vanilla, and coffee is almost identical to Black Opium YSL. Priced under $10, this scent is hard to resist. 

Despite its low price, PB Premiere Editions EDP is a luxurious, long-lasting fragrance made with high-quality perfume oils. The captivating scent does not contain parabens, phthalates, or propylene glycol. 

This is an excellent perfume to wear during both daytime and nighttime. It also works well for work and special occasions. 

It’s not as strong as the original or that long-lasting, but with the affordable price tag, you can afford a few extra sprays. You can also use this as your daily scent and the pricier Black Opium on special occasions – a great trade-off! 

Treat yourself to a bottle of PB Premiere Editions Eau De Parfum and get to enjoy the luxurious aroma of Black Opium without the jaw-dropping price tag.

ALT Fleur Noir Review

Women who wear Black Opium say it makes them feel sexy and mysterious. If you’d like to recreate that feeling without having to rob a bank (or anything of the sort), you may want to try out Fleur Noir.

Alt. Fragrances makes high-quality yet inexpensive perfume dupes giving the designer fragrances they mimic a run for their money. Indeed, Fleur Noir is an excellent Black Opium alternative, almost at par with the original’s performance.

The delicious scent features coffee, vanilla, and patchouli notes that envelope you in a warm hug the instant you spritz it on.  

This Black Opium-inspired perfume is sweet, cozy, and intensely feminine. It makes an excellent winter fragrance.

The only downside is that the longevity could be better, so you should use something else if you’re out for hours-long events. Nevertheless, you can reapply the perfume as often as you like since it’s not as expensive as Black Opium.

London Destination - Alexandria Fragrances Review

Alexandria Fragrances boast amazing quality, and London Destination does not disappoint. Featuring notes similar to Black Opium, the potent perfume delivers impressive staying power, lasting as long as five to six hours — perfect for those intimate evenings with your significant other.

London Destination comprises top notes from vanilla, pear, coffee, and a core of pink pepper, jasmine, and patchouli. 

The floral notes are not overpowering, and you can easily pick out the other notes in the perfume after the opening, which is quite an enriching experience. No matter how often you use it, you will never get tired of it.

The sillage is average, but the perfume costs a fraction of Black Opium’s price. A perfect scent for cold weather, this is a unisex fragrance so you and your partner can share a bottle.

However, considering how much it costs relative to the overall feeling and vibe it gives you, it’d be better to have one bottle each.

Midnight Nymph By Oakcha Review

Midnight Nymph comes highly recommended by online reviewers. The Extrait De Parfum (with 30-40% aromatic compounds concentration) is a product from Oakcha, a perfume house whose fragrance clones closely resemble the niche perfumes they attempt to copy. Of course, that is not at all a statement of their actual quality. 

Like Dossier fragrances, Oakcha perfumes are paraben-free, vegan, handcrafted, and made following cruelty-free procedures. 

Midnight Nymph comes in a sleek dark bottle which makes it stand out. Like Black Opium, this feminine fragrance opens with top notes from delightful pear, pink pepper, and orange blossom and finishes with vanilla, patchouli, and woodsy notes. 

This perfume possesses a sweet, musky aroma. You will enjoy the lovely smell of orange blossom and sweet vanilla with a splash of coffee wafting to your nostrils all day long. 

Wear it to work and turn heads, or a date that you want the other person to never forget (no matter how said date turns out).

Instyle Fragrances Inspired By YSL Black Opium Review

Now this one is a little different. The maker, Instyle Fragrances, takes a separate route with its fragrance notes, resulting in a lighter Black Opium YSL dupe. The coffee accords, so vivid in Black Opium, are not present here.

The key notes are pear and orange blossom, while the dry down features vanilla and cedar in a cozy ending. This fresh take on the original perfume makes the fragrance more versatile, with year-round accessibility. 

Unfortunately, the staying power is not high: At most, it will last only about three to five hours. You might need to reapply a couple of times. No worries, though: The EDT is available at an incredibly low price, so you can spray to your heart’s content. 

Inspired Fragrances are crafted conscientiously. You will not only smell fantastic but also feel good about using this cruelty-free product. Perhaps the lack of coffee notes may be a dealbreaker, but this is still a solid scent, all things considered.