Cuir de Francais
Cuir de Francais opens on pink pepper, lime, and clary sage — a sharp, slightly herbal-citrus trio with a dry, spiced 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Lime
- Clary Sage
- Cedar
- White Musk
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readCuir de Francais opens on pink pepper, lime, and clary sage — a sharp, slightly herbal-citrus trio with a dry, spiced edge. Pink pepper and clary sage give this a distinctive aromatic-spicy character from the start.
Cedar in the heart adds dry, clean woodiness that bridges the spiced opening to the suede base.
White musk, suede, and styrax close with a soft leather-adjacent warmth. Suede reads smoother and less assertive than full leather — intimate and skin-close. Styrax adds a slightly smoky, balsamic depth. The overall character is a modern aromatic leather: precise in the top, smooth in the base, minimal in ornamentation. A clean, confident construction.
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.
