Peau d'Espagne
A historical leather composition that opens with a flash of jasmine and bergamot before the architecture beneath is revealed.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Leather65
- Smoky55
- Animalic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
- Violet Leaf
- Neroli
- Virginia Cedar
- Birch
By the editors · 2 min readA historical leather composition that opens with a flash of jasmine and bergamot before the architecture beneath is revealed. Violet leaf adds a green-cool counterpoint; neroli softens the citrus into something more floral than citric. Cedar provides the structural backbone.
The base is where the name earns itself: birch tar laid bare, smoky and almost Russian-leather in register, with civet pulsing animalic beneath. The effect is uncompromising — old-school leather perfumery before regulations softened the genre. Wears warm and close, with a slow, slightly melancholy drydown. For someone who knows what they're putting on.
Scent twins
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