Roi d'Orient
Roi d'Orient opens with bergamot cutting through a lavender accord that reads more herbal than floral — cool and slightly medicinal before things warm up.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Lavender70
- Aromatic60
- Leather60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Lavender
- Amber
- Heliotrope
- Bergamot
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readRoi d'Orient opens with bergamot cutting through a lavender accord that reads more herbal than floral — cool and slightly medicinal before things warm up. Heliotrope and amber pull the heart toward a powdery, almond-edged softness, while the lavender lingers as a counterweight against the sweetness.
The leather in the base is restrained — more suede than hide — sitting alongside musk that keeps the drydown skin-close. Amber builds gradually, giving the final stage a warm, resinous quality without becoming cloying.
Overall this is an Oriental built on contrast: cool aromatic against warm resinous, powdery heliotrope against dry leather. It reads as a quieter, accessible take on the genre.
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.




