Cuir de Russie Eau de Parfum
Cuir de Russie is one of Chanel's Les Exclusifs and one of fragrance's canonical leather compositions.
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.
- Leather80
- Rose60
- Floral60
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tobacco
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCuir de Russie is one of Chanel's Les Exclusifs and one of fragrance's canonical leather compositions. Orange blossom and bergamot open with warm-citric restraint — characteristically Chanel, a composed prelude rather than a loud announcement.
The heart makes the argument: jasmine and ylang-ylang provide tropical-floral warmth, rose adds classical depth, and tobacco introduces a dry, smoky counterpoint to the florality. The tobacco-floral pairing creates genuine tension — simultaneously pretty and dusty, feminine and austere. This is the most interesting phase of the fragrance.
Leather and birch deliver the raison d'être. The leather here is clean and elegant — not rough-hewn but the kind from a luxury Parisian maison. Birch gives a slight smoky-tar edge that prevents it from becoming too polite. A reference-point composition that rewards years of acquaintance.
Scent twins
In this family
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