Derby
Chypre Leather · 1985 · Jean-Paul Guerlain
Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.
- Reported longevity
- Moderate
- Reported sillage
- Close to the skin
- Typical occasion
- Smart Casual / Social
- Typical season
- All Year
These describe how the fragrance is generally reported to behave. Skin chemistry, weather and how much you apply all change it, so your own experience may differ.
Reviewed profile
A dry, bracing herbal top of artemisia, mint and lemon gives way to leather, oakmoss and a full woody base of sandalwood, patchouli and vetiver. Powerful and old-school, it fills a room with confident, bitter-green depth.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Dry Warmth
Warm enough to be felt. Dry enough to mean it.
The warmth here is firm. It arrives unapologetic and stays put. Substance comes first, every time.
How Derby smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Derby is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure, and keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Derby sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 70th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Derby carries across a room and announces itself. That is 87th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Derby is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 29th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Derby carries some body without feeling heavy. That is 22nd percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Derby keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 30th percentile for sweetness across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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