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the one you wantYves Saint Laurent Opiumprice varies
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smells like it, for lessEstee Lauder CinnabarUSD 75, 50 ml

Smells like Yves Saint Laurent Opium.

3 bottles the community rates close to Opium, with the one thing each does differently. warm spicy, amber, smoky, for women.

Scent overlap

Both bottles' accords, strongest at the top, facing each other. A bar joined through the middle is one they share.

Yves Saint Laurent Opium4 accords
2of 6 accords shared, 33%
Estee Lauder Cinnabar4 accords
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Notes of Opium

What Yves Saint Laurent publishes. Black means Estee Lauder Cinnabar shares the note.

Top

  • mandarin

Heart

  • clove
  • jasmine

Base

  • myrrh
  • incense
  • vanilla

Notes of Cinnabar

What Estee Lauder publishes. Black means Opium shares the note.

Top

  • jasmine
  • orange flower
  • tangerine

Heart

  • clove
  • muguet
  • lily

Base

  • olibanum
  • sandalwood
  • patchouli

The 3 worth trying, ranked

Similarity is the owners' vote plus the note overlap. Price is a typical US bottle price when the house publishes one. Bars are each match's own accords.

No. 1
Cinnabar
Estee Lauder, EDP, 50 ml
75similar, well documented, a close alternative
shares 2 of 6 notes
USD 75
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Where it differs: Launched as Estee Lauder's answer to Opium, it pushes clove and incense harder and feels less complex, missing the myrrh-opoponax smoothness and vanilla of the YSL.

Buy Opium ifyou want the layered myrrh and opoponax resin with soft vanilla.
Buy Cinnabar ifyou want a louder clove-incense oriental in a smaller budget.
No. 2
Tabu
Dana, Cologne
65similar, reported by several owners, a close alternative
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Where it differs: An older patchouli-oakmoss oriental that reviewers link to Opium, it is less sweet and less dense, with a mossier, drier base and lighter projection.

Buy Opium ifyou want rich amber, myrrh and vanilla with real sillage.
Buy Tabu ifyou want a cheap, drier patchouli oriental in the same family.
No. 3
Youth-Dew
Estee Lauder, EDP, 67 ml, 1953
60similar, reported by several owners, a close alternative
shares 1 of 6 notes
USD 50
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Where it differs: The spicy balsamic oriental that predates Opium, it smells heavier and more old-fashioned, with a thick resinous spice and less of the bright mandarin opening.

Buy Opium ifyou want a citrus-lit opening before the amber resins.
Buy Youth-Dew ifyou want a dense, vintage-style spiced balsam.

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Side by side, the way people actually decide

Two bottles, two prices, one honest sentence. Every match on the site has this card.

Read about Estee Lauder Cinnabar
Yves Saint Laurent Opium
price varies
Estee Lauder Cinnabar
USD 75, 50 ml
75 similar. Launched as Estee Lauder's answer to Opium, it pushes clove and incense harder and feels less complex, missing the myrrh-opoponax smoothness and vanilla of the YSL.

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