Description
Cuir de Nacre represents a moment of intimacy, moments when a woman is alone in front of the mirror and polishes herself up. This fragrance is a symbol of metamorphosis, journey on which she carefully explores herself, while the scent leaves ticklish sensation on her skin. She monitors a game of sparkling aldehydes covering muted leather accords Top notes of sparkling aldehydes are born, combined with angelica root and ambrette absolute. The heart introduces notes of currant bud absolute, iris and leather accords, while the base notes are warmed and caressed by a blend of sandalwood, white musk and styrax. Cuir de Nacre was launched in 2012. The nose behind this fragrance is Bertrand Duchaufour.
batenov2011 – :
This is what Carrie Underwood’s mom wants her to smell like. I’m getting expensive shoes and powder; perhaps a woman with aggressive highlights and a neutral manicure receiving a floral arrangement.
mmiihhaa – :
What started on my skin as a lovely ambrette along the lines of Heeley Iris de Nuit, dried down fast to a oversharp suede perfume with pepper and synthetic white musk notes instead. It became loud, sharp and cheap smelling too fast. I’ll skip it.
makson1831 – :
I love leather fragrances and the smell you get in most is an approximation of ‘real’ leather. Things like clive christian C (which I adore BTW) and Tom Ford Tuscan leather have an aggressive accord which smells very sharp. Some which have a very animal or woody nature coupled with oud like Dior Leather Oud and Cuir d’arabie but Cuir de Nacre is entirely different. There’s yet another type which seem to be heavy in patchouli and earthy tincture coupled with the leather to create a ‘dirty’ feel.
This one is vaguely reminiscent of YSL’s Noble leather in that it’s lighter and more powdery but still the YSL leans more toward the Tuscan leather end of the spectrum.
Cuir de Nacre is an absolute triumph, such an true leather exuding from the top notes of this fragrance. A wonderfully accurate, soft, buttery leather note which evokes shoe shops, handbags and wallets. The mention of handbags includes the contents BTW lipstick and powdery make up vibes which to my taste never once lean too far into the realms of an ‘older’ lady type vibe.
It’s not aggressive enough for that the balance of iris, styrax, musk and cassis is perfect and as it dries down becomes less leathery and more powdery. This has a classy finesse to it and just smells really nice…If that leather lasted, was a bit stonger and less powdered I would hail this as the best leather I’d ever smelled.
Longevity is okay but soft and retreats nicely which adds to the less intrusive feel overall.
Eteclilemsfem – :
This smells like, In a a phrase, the inside of a rich 40-something woman’s handbag. I got a sample from luckyscent and I don’t think I’ll be finishing it to be quite honest. The perfume is quite… older smelling. Not “old” but there is definitely an age presented in this smell.
I’m not the type to advocate smelling “young” as I feel like its an excuse women make to smell like candy and baked goods all the time, but this is truly not something I would advocate wearing unless you’re 30s to 40s and above. Hell, you could be 68 and wear this, providing you want to smell wealthy. I think the culprit is the powdery iris in this. It reminds me of an older family member’s makeup room, full of face powder a-la 1960s style wafting through the air as she pats the puff to her skin.
If you’re looking to impress the fellas, ladies this is not wear to look. I think men would take a wiff and think of their mothers/grandmothers. It smells maternal, point blank. Not sexy.
Giving off moonlight? Um no. Just makeup powder.
I’m tempted to wash it off. I’d be quite embarrassed if someone were to smell this on me, but I’m waiting to see if the dry down has more to offer, at least.
sergkrasavec – :
as one previous reviewer put it “like a ladies’ bag”. True, but my bags smell much better!!!!!! I have never been fan of leather note, but this is new low. apart from horrible stink first hand, smell dies down almost immediately, nothing to be said about it. I can’t believe such stuff is being sold as niche.
jeka_vasilev – :
This is a dream perfume. Very high quality. Absolutely beautiful. First you get the iris and the leather then quickly settles down to a very beautiful skin scent of very comfortable musk and soft floral leather. Wonderful to have with you as a travel spray to use at anytime as it is not overpowering or offensive at all.
I can easily use Cuir de Nacre for school runs, important meetings, doing my shopping etc. Very versatile without being too serious or girly.
For me it is a winner xx
stvol013 – :
It smells, simply put, like a ladies’ new handbag.
LacratsTearce – :
124) Cuir d’Iris
En ouverture ce parfum a vraiment quelque chose de Iris Silver Mist, beurre d’Iris et carotte. Du cuir? et bien comme le cuir de Russie c’est plus une suggestion que l’odeur du produit. Les (nobles et soldats) russes traitaient leur cuir au goudron de bouleau ce qui lui donnait un parfum très doux et chaud qui camouflait celui du cuir. Ici ce cuir imaginaire aurait été traité au beurre d’iris et aux huiles végétales. C’est extrèmement original juste un peu trop léger sur le sillage, c’est du cuir-peau.
In opening this perfume have really something of Iris Silver Mist, iris butter and carrot. Leather? well as Russian leather is more of a suggestion than the smell of the product. The russian (nobles and soldiers) treated their leather whith birch tar which gave it a very soft and warm scent that camouflaged the leather. Here the imaginary leather was treated whith iris butter and vegetable oils. It is extremely original just a little too light on skin, it is a skin scent.
Poroh – :
Beautiful scent but it becomes a memory in less than 20 minutes. It is just not feasible to reapply that often.
kananz – :
Despite various internet descriptions of CdN, the dominant notes are actually musk and styrax. The orris butter and leather notes, although very refined, are slight and fleeting. Further, this is one of those perfumes that smells very different (much sweeter) on the skin than on a test strip. Ultimately, it seems to be well composed using high quality raw materials, but I would have preferred that the subordinate accord (orris butter and leather) and dominant accord (musk and styrax) were flipped. Had that been the case, I think that this would have been notable. However, as it stands now, it is little more than a common oriental-musky feminine perfume.
P.S.: To the reviewer below (rickyrebarco), wormwood (Artemisia herba-alba, a.k.a. Artemisia) is not the same thing as angelica (Angelica archangelica, a.k.a. Holy Ghost and Wild Celery).
alabas51 – :
This has very unpleasant, at least to my nose, topnotes and an overall underlying scent of the cassia, currant leaf (which can have a cat urine smell) and angelica (wormwood) that permeate the scent through topnotes, middle notes and drydown. Who would possibly want to smell like any of those things? The overall scent is balanced so that it is not awful by any means but it is just a strange scent that is not pleasant and certainly does not evoke the images the perfumer seems to think are evoked. Interesting but that’s about all.