Russian Leather
Russian Leather opens with a brisk combination of black pepper, bergamot, and basil — clean and sharp, with a faint herbal edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Earthy55
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Birch
- Birch
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readRussian Leather opens with a brisk combination of black pepper, bergamot, and basil — clean and sharp, with a faint herbal edge. The opening is brief but purposeful, setting a tone that stays predominantly dry.
Lavender and birch arrive in the heart alongside tobacco, pulling the composition toward a darker, slightly smoky register. The birch is almost medicinal — woody and tarry — reinforcing the leather theme before it fully surfaces in the base. Vetiver extends the earthy, rooty character, while vanilla softens the overall impression without making it sweet.
The result is a dry, structured leather with aromatic top notes and a vetiver-tobacco backbone. It projects well but stays measured.
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.
