Derby (Vintage)
Mint arrives first — clean and cooling, with lemon and bergamot providing a bright, barbershop-adjacent freshness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Mossy80
- Leather60
- Earthy60
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readMint arrives first — clean and cooling, with lemon and bergamot providing a bright, barbershop-adjacent freshness. The florals that follow are transitional rather than dominant: jasmine and rose appear briefly before the composition descends into the mossy, earthy territory that defines Derby's character. Oakmoss — now IFRA-restricted in contemporary formulations — provides the deep, forested backdrop of classic chypre perfumery.
Leather and vetiver give the base a masculine edge without aggression; patchouli integrates the whole into a coherent, dark dry-down. Sandalwood softens the edges. Derby is a fragrance of its era — the structured, confident masculine perfumery of the mid-1980s, unhurried and purposeful. Vintage bottles carry the unreconstructed oakmoss that current regulations have diminished; this distinction matters for what you actually smell.
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.
