Royal Water
Royal Water is one of Creed's most distinctive and challenging masculines.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Musk55
- Bergamot50
- Lemon50
- Amber40
- Orange25
By the editors · 2 min readRoyal Water is one of Creed's most distinctive and challenging masculines. Peppermint, lemon, and bergamot open with a fresh-cool brightness that might suggest a standard aquatic before cumin and basil arrive in the heart and complicate everything. Cumin here is full-bodied and carnal — warm, slightly sweaty, animalic — while basil adds a sharp herbal note. Together they create an accord that is simultaneously fresh and intimate in a way that can be polarizing. Ambergris and musk in the base warm the whole thing into a skin-close final register. For those who connect with the cumin, Royal Water is addictive. For those who don't, it's confrontational.
