Vanille Cuir
Vanille Cuir is named for the punchline it eventually arrives at, but the opening swerves first — mint and lavender bright over saffron and bergamot, a near-aromatic aperture that doesn't telegraph the gourmand to come.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Vanilla80
- Leather70
- Sweet60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Leather
- Cumin
By the editors · 2 min readVanille Cuir is named for the punchline it eventually arrives at, but the opening swerves first — mint and lavender bright over saffron and bergamot, a near-aromatic aperture that doesn't telegraph the gourmand to come.
The heart turns: cinnamon, cumin, and frankincense around an orange blossom, with leather already pushing forward. From there the base does the heavy lifting — tonka, sandalwood, vanilla, and praline against vetiver, cedar, suede, and musk, building a creamy-leathered warmth that lasts.
It rewards cold weather and patient skin; the vanilla here is dressed up, not dessert.
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.
