Cuir de Russie
Leather opens bold and smoky, supported by aromatic lavender rosemary and thyme that add herbal freshness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Mossy60
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Gardenia
- Leather
- Rosewood
By the editors · 2 min readLeather opens bold and smoky, supported by aromatic lavender rosemary and thyme that add herbal freshness. A complex heart emerges with gardenia jasmine and ylang-ylang providing a floral creaminess against birch and vetiver's dry woodiness. Labdanum benzoin and styrax create a balsamic amber base that sweetens the leather subtly. Iris and oakmoss contribute a powdery earthy texture that grounds the animalic civet and musk. The scent evolves dramatically over hours from sharp aromatic leather to a soft animalic skin-hugging trail. Projection is strong initially but settles into an intimate mossy leather that lasts all day. Best for cool weather formal occasions where its historic complexity feels appropriate.
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.
