Cuir
Ginger, rum, and saffron open with sweet heat — rum gives the opening a boozy richness, saffron tilts it toward the Middle Eastern leather register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Tobacco55
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Rum
- Saffron
- Black Tea
- Tobacco
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readGinger, rum, and saffron open with sweet heat — rum gives the opening a boozy richness, saffron tilts it toward the Middle Eastern leather register. The heart is tobacco and osmanthus with black tea threading through: the osmanthus reads apricot-dry-leafy, the tea adds a tannin bitterness that cuts the spice.
The dry-down is pure leather — firm and assertive, Guaiac wood adding a smoky greenness, oud layering in a quiet animalic resin beneath. Cuir (Le Vestiaire des Parfums, 2016) is a focused leather study with genuine complexity across its arc. It projects well and demands cool-weather context. A serious fragrance for those who want leather done without compromise.
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.
