Derby (Vintage)
Chypre Leather · 1985 · Jean-Paul Guerlain
- Reported longevity
- Moderate
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- 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
Citrus and spice open before leather settles over a mossy, structured base. Dry and dandyish, it carries a vintage sweetness within its refined leather.
Taste Profile
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How Derby (Vintage) smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Derby (Vintage) keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Derby (Vintage) sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 41st percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Derby (Vintage) sits mid-range on projection. That is 39th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Derby (Vintage) is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 7th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Derby (Vintage) carries some body without feeling heavy. That is 42nd percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.
Derby (Vintage) keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 11th 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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