Crème de Cuir
Crème de Cuir is a leather fragrance built around the texture rather than the smell of leather — no raw-hide or smoky saddle here.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Pineapple
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCrème de Cuir is a leather fragrance built around the texture rather than the smell of leather — no raw-hide or smoky saddle here. Pineapple, grapefruit, and bergamot open with a tropical-bright citrus that's more sun lotion than tannery. Sandalwood and pink pepper in the heart provide warmth and a light spiced note. The base is where the leather credential lives: birch adding a subtle smoky-tarry quality, cashmeran a warm woody-musk warmth, vanilla smoothing everything into the titular cream. An entry point for those who find most leather fragrances confrontational — the leather is present but wearing a very soft glove.
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.
