Esprit du Roi
Esprit du Roi is a cologne dressed for a court.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Patchouli45
- Leather15
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Tomato Leaf
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Clove
By the editors · 2 min readEsprit du Roi is a cologne dressed for a court. The first minutes give a clean, slightly bitter citrus — bergamot and grapefruit lifted on cool aldehydes — laced with juniper and a dry herbal greenness that recalls a gin garden more than a Mediterranean grove.
Duchaufour pulls the structure inward without softening it. Cypress and rosemary thread through a rose absolute that is almost masculine in its dryness, and a woody backbone of cedar and patchouli holds the architecture. There's no sweetness, no fruit; the rose behaves like polished wood rather than a flower.
The drydown sets onto skin as moss and oakwood, vetiver dragging the brightness down to something earthen. Around three to five hours of presence, modest projection. Best worn for daytime in cool weather, in clothes you would not want to spill on.
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.