Cuir Vetiver
Cuir-Vétiver opens with a brisk, green sharpness that quickly settles into its leather core—not the polished kind found in luxury goods, but something closer to worn saddle blankets and workroom air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Leather75
- Sandalwood65
- Cedar60
- Vetiver50
- Tonka35
By the editors · 2 min readCuir-Vétiver opens with a brisk, green sharpness that quickly settles into its leather core—not the polished kind found in luxury goods, but something closer to worn saddle blankets and workroom air. The vetiver stays in the background, providing an earthy scaffold rather than dominating. Sandalwood and cedar lend a dry woodiness that keeps the composition from turning animalic or heavy.
As it develops, tonka bean introduces a faint sweetness that rounds the edges without softening the overall character. The effect is utilitarian rather than seductive, functional rather than contemplative. This is fragrance as tool: straightforward, unpretentious, suitable for someone who wants to smell like leather and wood without announcing it across a room. It wears close and fades relatively quickly, which seems intentional—a brief statement rather than a lingering presence.
