Cuir de Orientica
Without a declared top, the composition opens directly on its heart.
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.
- Iris65
- Woody50
- Amber50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Violet
- Styrax
- Leather
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readWithout a declared top, the composition opens directly on its heart. Iris leads with a powdery, slightly carroty-cool elegance — the rooty, earthy iris of orris butter rather than a floral iris. Violet adds a candied purple sweetness that softens the iris's austerity, and styrax threads a resinous, cinnamon-tinged warmth through both.
The middle reads as a refined cool-powdery floral with a balsamic undertow, sitting in the cuir-de-russie tradition. There's no fresh or fruit phase — the composition is dense and immediately wintry.
Leather, cedar, and musk anchor the base. Leather brings a smoky, tar-tinged warmth that matches the styrax; cedar adds dry structure; musk smooths everything. Powdery iris-violet leather — sophisticated, evening-leaning, cool-weather flattering.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
