Chanel
Cuir de Russie
Leather Floral · 1924 · Ernest Beaux
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Summer
Smoky, birch-tinged leather softened by iris powder and a little jasmine. Warm and refined, it wears like a well-kept leather glove.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Dry Warmth
Warm enough to be felt. Dry enough to mean it.
There is warmth here but nothing soft about it. It arrives without apology and stays without asking. Substance over comfort, every time.
See your own Taste Map →How Cuir de Russie smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Cuir de Russie keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure.
Cuir de Russie reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 76th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cuir de Russie sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 37th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cuir de Russie is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 29th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cuir de Russie arrives seamless, as a single impression rather than parts. That is 11th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cuir de Russie keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 13th percentile for sweetness across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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