Royal English Leather
Bergamot opens with a clean, slightly sour citrus edge before the composition shifts into warmer territory.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Leather90
- Amber70
- Animalic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ambergris
- Amber
- Sandalwood
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a clean, slightly sour citrus edge before the composition shifts into warmer territory. Ambergris and amber form a dense, animalic-tinged core — rounded rather than sharp, with a faintly oceanic undertone that distinguishes ambergris from synthetic substitutes.
As it settles, sandalwood adds a creamy, dry backdrop while leather asserts itself with a restrained but unmistakable presence. The overall effect leans toward traditional masculine leather construction: structured, unhurried, and slightly animalic without being confrontational.
This wears as a cool-weather leather with moderate projection. It has the linear quality of a classic accord rather than a fragrance with dramatic evolution — most of the interest lies in the amber-leather relationship through the dry-down.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
