2 clones found

01Estée LauderCinnabar

Cinnabar

by Estée Lauder

● Top pickModerate match

~$30–55

02Oil PerfumeryImpression of YSL - Opium

Impression of YSL - Opium

by Oil Perfumery

Moderate match

~$16

The classic YSL Opium (the 1977 women's spicy-oriental, in its later reformulated EDP form) is a dense, warm oriental built on clove, cinnamon, carnation and pepper over a resinous myrrh/opoponax/amber and vanilla base — a genre-defining ambery-spice bomb, not to be confused with the coffee-vanilla Black Opium (2014), which is a completely different fragrance and whose many Lattafa/Maison Alhambra/Dossier 'dupes' do NOT apply here. Dedicated cheap-clone-house consensus for the ORIGINAL Opium is genuinely thin: the well-known Arab-house cloners (Lattafa, Armaf, Maison Alhambra) have no widely-agreed classic-Opium spray, and most 'Opium' impressions come from generic fragrance-oil vendors rather than community-vetted clone brands. The two honest, independently-verifiable alternatives are Estée Lauder Cinnabar — historically Lauder's direct 1978 answer to Opium and, by decades of forum consensus, its closest 'sister' (similar spicy-amber DNA, slightly flatter/less opulent) — and Oil Perfumery's explicit Opium impression oil, a real, on-note budget option. Treat this as moderate-to-low confidence: the alternatives are real but the community regards them as close relatives rather than indistinguishable clones.