Cuir de Marrakech
The opening is a brief collision of plum and citrus, sweet-tart and gone quickly, giving way to the real structure: a dusty, aromatic leather built from cinnamon, rosemary, and a dark current of patchouli threaded through frankincense.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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
- Cinnamon80
- Patchouli50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Rosemary
- Olibanum
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a brief collision of plum and citrus, sweet-tart and gone quickly, giving way to the real structure: a dusty, aromatic leather built from cinnamon, rosemary, and a dark current of patchouli threaded through frankincense. There's an incense-shop quality here, not cathedral but souk—spiced, slightly medicinal, less polished than many modern leathers.
The base softens everything with tonka and vanilla, but never turns gourmand. The moss adds a fuzzy, slightly bitter edge that keeps the sweetness from overwhelming the leather theme. What emerges is a warm, lived-in leather jacket hung in a workshop where someone grinds spices and burns resin at the end of the day.
Best suited to cooler weather and anyone drawn to leathers that lean aromatic rather than animalic or smoky. Moderately assertive without being loud.
Scent twins
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