The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Leather60
- Mossy55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Jasmine
- Thyme
By the editors · 2 min readM. Micallef's Monégasque luxury house takes a classic chypre-leather approach with Royal Vintage, updated with modern ingredient sensibility. Apple, pink pepper, and bergamot open with a clean, slightly spiced freshness — the pink pepper providing lift, the apple a rounded fruitiness, the bergamot standard top-note clarity. The heart shifts register: leather enters alongside jasmine and thyme. The leather is dry and well-handled; jasmine adds warmth; thyme contributes a herbal sharpness that distinguishes the heart from a conventional floral leather.
Moss, amber, patchouli, and musk form the base — a genuine chypre foundation with the green-earthiness that moss provides, anchored by patchouli's depth and amber's warmth. A leather-chypre that earns its vintage designation by respecting the genre's structural logic while keeping the materials clean and contemporary.
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.
