Les Nombres d'Or - Cuir
Leather dominates from the first breath, a raw, birch-tar hide glossed by boozy juniper that sharpens the hide rather than sweetening it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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
- Animalic70
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Juniper
- Cardamom
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readLeather dominates from the first breath, a raw, birch-tar hide glossed by boozy juniper that sharpens the hide rather than sweetening it. Cardamom threads a cool, green-tinged spice through the pelt, preventing the accord from collapsing into grease; its citrus edge lifts the castoreum’s dark musk so the base radiates warm fur instead of barnyard. Over an hour the juniper evaporates, letting castoreum’s resinous castor facet expand, turning the leather smoky and slightly uric, as if the jacket has spent nights absorbing campfire and skin. Projection stays within arm’s reach, dense but breathable, a second-skin scent that feels most at home under a cool fall coat or a winter scarf.
Scent twins
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