Guerlain
Derby
Chypre Leather · 1985 · Jean-Paul Guerlain
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Intimate
Occasion
Smart Casual / Social
Seasonality
All Year
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.
There is warmth here but nothing soft about it. It arrives without apology and stays without asking. Substance over comfort, every time.
See your own Taste Map →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.
Derby sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 66th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Derby carries across a room and announces itself. That is 87th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Derby is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 29th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Derby sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle.
Derby keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 29th percentile for sweetness across 5,322 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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