Cuir Curcuma
Cuir Curcuma opens with a dry, almost chalky leather note, its surface slightly dusty before the deeper materials take hold.
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.
- Smoky60
- Patchouli60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Myrrh
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCuir Curcuma opens with a dry, almost chalky leather note, its surface slightly dusty before the deeper materials take hold. There is no sweetness early on — the leather sits clean and cool, a little austere.
Myrrh and patchouli arrive gradually, adding resinous depth and a dark, slightly earthy roundness beneath the hide. Sandalwood brings a creamy warmth that softens the starkness without dulling it. The curcuma of the name contributes a faint spiced dryness rather than culinary brightness.
The overall character is dark and structured — a leather-resin composition that leans smoky and balsamic in the dry-down. It stays relatively close to the skin and suits cool-weather wear.
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.
