Chanel
Cuir de Russie Extrait
Leather · 1924
Longevity
Long
Sillage
Strong
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Summer
A refined, animalic leather laced with iris powder, carnation and a full floral heart. Birch and tobacco add smoke, amber and vanilla round the close, the whole thing plush and grown-up.
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 Extrait smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Cuir de Russie Extrait is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure, and sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.
Cuir de Russie Extrait sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 70th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cuir de Russie Extrait 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 66th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cuir de Russie Extrait is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 27th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cuir de Russie Extrait sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 36th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Cuir de Russie Extrait carries sweetness without letting it define the scent.
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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