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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Similarity figures come from owner ratings and published notes, never from a lab, and no bottle here is a copy of another. Brand names appear only to say what a scent is similar to.
Side by side, the way people actually decide
Two bottles, two prices, one honest sentence. Every match on the site has this card.
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