The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Leather85
- Woody60
- Aromatic50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readCuirs doesn't make leather polite. The saffron opens with a metallic heat — golden, a little blood-warm — before the mid-century heart of sandalwood and patchouli begins to absorb it. Virginia cedar contributes spine, keeping the texture from softening too fast. Violet, often a powdery hedge in leather orientals, here plays it straight: a dry, slightly watery floral that refuses to prettify what surrounds it.
The base is where Cuirs earns its plural title. Tonka and amber pull in one direction — warm, slightly sweet, skin-adjacent — while the leather comes up from beneath, dry and convincing rather than chemical. Musk ties it closed. This is a grown-up leather for people who've decided leather should actually smell like leather: no apology, no fruit to soften the blow.
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.
