Cuir 28
Leather dominates from the first spray, a rawhide strip still holding tannery smoke and diesel edges.
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.
- Leather90
- Smoky70
- Animalic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLeather dominates from the first spray, a rawhide strip still holding tannery smoke and diesel edges. Vetiver threads through the hide with green, rooty bitterness that keeps the accord from collapsing into pure saddle soap. Vanilla arrives late, not dessert-sweet but the dark, tarry extract that rounds seams without softening them, while musk amplifies skin warmth so the leather never feels placed on top but grown out of the wearer. Mid-stage the smoke thins, revealing a flexible, worn-jacket flex that bends closer to the body. Projection drops to intimate leather lining inside a denim collar; it lasts all workday yet stays personal, ideal for cool fall days when wool and stubble already carry their own dry animal reference.
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.
