Cuir de Russie
Honey opens with a thick, slightly animalic sweetness, joined by cardamom for a green-spicy lift, bergamot for citrus polish, and styrax for an immediate balsamic-leathery undertone.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Amber70
- Honey50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Honey
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Styrax
- Cinnamon
- Neroli
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readHoney opens with a thick, slightly animalic sweetness, joined by cardamom for a green-spicy lift, bergamot for citrus polish, and styrax for an immediate balsamic-leathery undertone. The top is rich and warm from the first sniff.
Cinnamon and neroli warm the heart further while cedar and patchouli ground it with dry wood and earthy depth. The transition is dense — there's no quiet middle phase here, just a gradual deepening.
Sandalwood, oakmoss, olibanum, labdanum, amber, and musk close it as a smoky-balsamic powerhouse. Olibanum adds resinous incense, labdanum a leathery sweetness, oakmoss damp depth. Overall: a classical leather-amber with honeyed warmth, strong projection, long wear, and a cool-weather, evening-leaning character.
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.
