Cuir Ottoman
Cuir Ottoman opens unusually: labdanum and iris in the top note position means the fragrance arrives at skin as balsamic and powdery before the leather developments begin.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Leather80
- Amber70
- Iris55
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Labdanum
- Iris
- Leather
- Benzoin
- Styrax
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readCuir Ottoman opens unusually: labdanum and iris in the top note position means the fragrance arrives at skin as balsamic and powdery before the leather developments begin. Leather, benzoin, and styrax in the heart create a dense, slightly smoky accord — old-school leather, more like a worn saddle than polished hide, with the resins adding a warm depth that is neither sharp nor aggressive.
Tonka bean, incense, and vanilla in the base deepen the composition into something meditative and slow — a fragrance that doesn't open so much as unfold, and rewards patience. A serious niche leather built for cold weather and unhurried wear.
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.
