The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Sandalwood60
- Amber50
- Musk50
- Patchouli50
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.
