Kingdom
Kingdom opens with a jolt of mint so sharp it almost stings, followed by a rush of citrus that feels more like a bracing cologne than a floral prelude.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Mossy70
- Lavender65
- Rose55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Neroli
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readKingdom opens with a jolt of mint so sharp it almost stings, followed by a rush of citrus that feels more like a bracing cologne than a floral prelude. The effect is disorienting—too bright, too clean—until the ginger arrives and everything shifts. The heart refuses to behave like a traditional floral. The jasmine and rose are there, but they're distorted, heated by spice and cooled by that persistent mint echo, creating something angular rather than soft.
What emerges is a fragrance that occupies an uncomfortable middle ground between fresh and opulent, never quite committing to either. The oakmoss base gives it a chypre-like structure, but the mint haunts the drydown, preventing full warmth. It's confrontational in the way McQueen's tailoring could be—beautiful elements arranged to provoke rather than please. Best suited to someone who finds most florals too polite.
Scent twins
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