Cuir
Cardamom and anise arrive with an almost medicinal clarity, their spiced sweetness preparing the ground rather than announcing luxury.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Leather95
- Musky55
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Anise
- Leather
- Opoponax
- Castoreum
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and anise arrive with an almost medicinal clarity, their spiced sweetness preparing the ground rather than announcing luxury. This brief aromatic opening quickly gives way to the heart, where leather emerges not as polished hide but as something raw and slightly feral. The material feels lived-in, skin-warmed, stripped of the usual suede refinements that soften most leather fragrances.
In the base, opoponax contributes a resinous sweetness that never quite tames the composition, while castoreum adds an animalic undertow that keeps the whole construction from becoming too abstract. The result is a leather scent that refuses to perform elegance. It suits those who prefer their materials unsanded, who understand that not every skin scent needs to flatter.
Mona di Orio's approach here is direct but not simple—this is leather as statement rather than accessory, challenging without resorting to shock.
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.
