Cuir Sublime
Cuir Sublime opens with pink pepper and grapefruit — a spiced citrus combination that's fresh and slightly sharp.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Balsamic60
- Amber60
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCuir Sublime opens with pink pepper and grapefruit — a spiced citrus combination that's fresh and slightly sharp. The pepper adds warmth without heaviness; the grapefruit provides clean bitterness.
Violet leaf, jasmine, iris, and rose in the heart create a layered floral-powdery accord. Iris and violet leaf give a cool, slightly watery quality; rose and jasmine add warmth. The base is where leather takes over: leather, myrrh, benzoin, amber, and vanilla create a rich, smoky, balsamic foundation confirmed as dominant by the prior. Myrrh and benzoin's resinous depth support the leather rather than standing alone. The arc moves from spiced citrus through iris-floral to a full, resinous leather base. Evening-appropriate, confident, long-wearing.
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.
