Royal Plum
Royal Plum opens with a sharp pinch of black pepper that vanishes almost immediately into the dark fruit underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Vanilla60
- Cherry30
- Amber10
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Plum
- Peony
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readRoyal Plum opens with a sharp pinch of black pepper that vanishes almost immediately into the dark fruit underneath. There's no fanfare on top — the perfume gets to its subject fast.
Plum and peony carry the heart. The plum is jammy and slightly winey, the peony lifting it with a fresh-floral counterweight that keeps the fruit from going entirely into compote territory. It's a focused middle, just two ideas in conversation, and that economy gives the composition a clean, deliberate feel.
The base is where it earns the 'royal' in the name. Madagascar vanilla and heliotrope build a creamy-powdered drydown, cedar adds dry structure, and musk rounds the edges. The heliotrope pulls the vanilla toward an almond-marzipan facet, giving the warm finish a specific powdery character — boudoir more than bakery.
Scent twins
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