Rose & Cuir
The opening bristles with tart blackcurrant, a sharp clearing of the throat before rose enters—not dewy, not powdered, but fleshed-out and almost meaty in its fullness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Leather70
- Rose65
- Vetiver50
- Cedar35
- Apple15
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening bristles with tart blackcurrant, a sharp clearing of the throat before rose enters—not dewy, not powdered, but fleshed-out and almost meaty in its fullness. This is rose as raw material rather than decoration, its natural green-stemmed bitterness intact. Within minutes, leather arrives not as a roar but as a low, steady presence: suede-soft yet unmistakably animal, the kind worn close to skin rather than polished for show.
As it settles, vetiver adds a smoky, earthy backbone that keeps the rose from floating away into prettiness. Cedar provides structure without dominating. The effect is less "floral" than sculptural—a study in contrasts that never quite resolves into sweetness.
This suits someone comfortable with fragrances that don't announce themselves from across a room, who appreciates rose when it's stripped of sentimentality and given a darker, more textured frame.
