To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Piograrvego – :
This would make a beautiful air freshener for a new car.
kubik666ru – :
This is all about a boozy & smoky leather with a tone of immortelle.. omg so much immortelle especially at the opening, heavy and a little nauseating for me. As time passes I get some gourmandish qualities but this scent is not a gourmand. When it calms I get the nice and mild tobacco note. The incense is a nice smoke which blends perfectly with the suede from the beginning and there’s a woody vibe at the background. It seems it’s a strong scent but I can’t comment on performance without a sample. Anyway I’ll try it again.
Besides the boozy/smoky leather you must really love immortelle.
Edit!
Well, I Looove it! So good so thick and rich blend!
davyd-3000 – :
first impression: someone set the leather store on fire!
At first blast this is stroooong, smokey and unmistakably leathery. There is a “burnt” accord I can’t ignore.
But the burnt-leather opening settles quickly into a soft, rich velvety suede. To be honest I’m not sure I’ve ever understood the “suede” note so well until sampling this fragrance. It’s the suede-iest suede that ever suede-d.
This perfume smells “dark” to me. In a good way.
I smell deep sweet vanilla too, but I wonder if that’s the rum.
Gets sweeter and sweeter as it lingers. At the end it’s mostly sweet/faintly powdery suede with a touch of muskiness.
This smells like a lady assassin who spent all day walking away from explosions in slow motion and is now meeting someone at a bar for a nighttime tryst… and of course she’ll be gone before morning.
Pasajendo – :
Blind bought, had fingers crossed immortelle wasn’t too prominent going by some reviews. Gauged my eyes out and sold it blind immediately.
Weelman – :
Smooth, warming leather. Very cozy and inviting in the cooler months. Good performance for me at least. I like this one on a cool night, it warms me up nicely.
ooddfyebqzk – :
Gorgeous warm, sweet leather! It seems to be positively blooming in the heat.
Alexsey124 – :
Wow I fall in love with this cologne.It is so rich, leathery and boozy scent.
I love this cologne and it’s perfumer Mr Julien Rasquinet.
8.5/10
Assicmunc – :
Way too mild. I’m all for a good skinscent, but I couldn’t smell this at all after 20 minutes.
Тупак – :
Scent – labdanum rum & suede.
Season/Time of Day – I prefer to use this one in the colder months, day or night.
Projection – I did get noticed, it garners compliments.
Longevity – I get 12hrs consistently.
tangar8 – :
This sweet perfume is fantastic. I have a decant and I’m wearing it for a while. The main accords are Leather and war spicy notes with a delecious sweetness. I can smell Suede and Immortelle mixed with rum as leather. The longevity is awesome and the projection is good. I think it is a good fragrance for fall and Winter.
Poslevaski – :
This perfume is pure olfactory refinement! A subtle cocktail of delicate leather, rum, pipe tobacco and immortelle. It is a virile, highly elegant yet gourmand perfume that I discovered thanks to Radjur Real Deep Kool on youtube.
orbitauspeha – :
Cuir Velours leather is a very kind, good, more than a musky leather is a soft suede and sweet.
The fragrance feels quite linear and very little evolution. Since the beginning feel a pleasant note siempreviva rum and, below, the snuff that clarifies and adds a spicy soft suede this nice and sweet. The effect of labdanum is very soft and pale only provides warmth, but note that incense itself feels quite. This incense is not toasted, only a smoky soft that when mixed with musk favors a note as dusty, very similar as a whole to fragrances with olfactory style result D600 Carner, Dior Homme, Silver Iris, etc.
The excellent quality, with good length and moderate wake.
The composition is very good and convince RASQUINET again with the result.
Rating: 7.5
Mobalryclancy – :
This is the second Goodsir juice I’ve tried, and I’m sensing a pattern.
Is the perfumer a former smoker? What is it with the cigarette ash note?! Just like with Iris Cendre – which to be fair is meant to smell of ashes – it took a good two hours to get over the offensive wall of dead Marlboro to reach the surprisingly lovely heart of the fragrance. I expected ashes – the earthy, acrid smoke of green things burning, not the scent of seedy european nightclubs after the lights come on.
I like tobacco notes, but I prefer the almost jammy, figgy scent of unsmoked tobacco which I grew up with (my grandpa would take me to see men hand rolling cigars). Ciggie ashes just don’t do it for me – it’s on the verge of being offensive.
That being said, this is good one for men – once that off-putting ‘I just snuck a butt out back’ dry down, it’s a classic, sexy man scent.
I LOVE leather, but I was so puzzled by the ash that it didn’t even register. I did get the rum, though. Boozy ash.
kuw645JeomiWogkig – :
I received this perfume as part of a sample set and was willing to dislike it based on some of the less positive reviews here, but I just can’t. This is some really potent stuff and seems much more oily than most fragrances (I can see where I sprayed it on my hand) From the opening on Cuir Velours envelops you in a cloud of lush suede, wax (crayons!) and booze. This is friendly yet voluptuous leather, very seducing. I am a man but can just as easily picture this on a woman. Very unisex.
sambic – :
Six hours of burning candles from bath and body works. The smell of crayons from Kindergarten and the after smell of a girl wearing winter candy apple. Clean suede glove-clean subtle smoke. Creative but not wearable in a appealing sense. Sweet make up aura my girl didn’t really dig & this I have to agree.
papaorlov – :
Cuir Velours suffers from the same malady as its sibling, Bois d’Ascèse. The problem isn’t the fragrance, it’s the strategy.
So let’s get the perfume out of the way. It’s a waxy, fruity leather. Less soapy than Serge Lutens Daim Blond, more spiced than Robert Piguet’s revived Visa. A pretty fruit/leather that smokes and drinks. Very nice, truth be told.
But, why? Is niche perfumery strictly about branding. Say you sell a luxury fashion commodity. Shoes, purses, phone cases. Hats. Must a line of perfumes be part of the business plan? The smugness of viewing niche perfumery as a merely a style to be taken up and dropped is certainly nothing new, but the niche version seems dismissive by design. I know that there need to be business opportunities for up and coming perfumers, but is niche perfumery the lapdog of fashion businesses?
The thought that niche perfumery will serve to accessorize fashion is disheartening. Taking the focus away from exploration and placing it on the production of perfumes ‘in the style’ of niche is exactly how the soul is sold.
Niche orthodoxy. It will be the death of us.
from scenthurdle.com
McRae – :
It is a very well made fragrance. Not outstanding but remarkable. Soft elegant leather with a very nice combination of dry-sweetness (!!).
But why this arrogance to wrapp it in such an ugly bottle?? It is not artistic or ” back to basic” to sell your customers a very, very expensive water and wrapp it in a 1 dollar bottle!
dandi – :
There is a hint of Bvlgari black with the rubber tire, it keeps me from loving it. Outside of the tire smell, there are many things to enjoy here. I assume the lovers of this weren’t getting that smell
Okay so I have had this on 8 hours and still going strong, dabs to neck from a 1ml vial in 40 degree weather. The rubber tire went away in 2 hours and left a beautiful scent.
toliv – :
(edited 9/4/15) this is lovely from first sniff. it goes on oriental suede and then the labdanum comes out on the drydown. (insert smiley emoji with hearts for eyes.) i particularly love suedey scents and this one does not disappoint. it gets a bit of an effervescent boozy quality from the rum and tobacco i am guessing. i really have to say i love the incense and labdanum in this scent. i only have a sample of this, but the sillage is pretty subtle even when i slather it on, which is really my only complaint.
Velmok – :
” Cuir Velours Naomi Goodsir ”
Opens with a blast of smooth pleasure suede with a delicious flowery fruity sweet boozy tone from the ˝rum˝ & immortelle but! in a nice way & not over powering. with hints of saffron & labdanum that give it that oriental edge with modern eastern vibe & character ..
then quits into a sensual ambery musky powdery seductive base that like painted an encaustic art of work !
˝Cuir Velours˝ its an elegant ,alluring ,velvety leathery based scent, with a modern Character & perfect blended , its with moderate depth Does not diminish the ability of it, to make it a distinctive leather based scent with personality and originality in my opinion .
The Sensual Suede
10/10.
victor21 – :
Cuir Velours, for me, is the weakest scent in the Naomi Goodsir line. It’s a floralized, sweet leather with an herbal presence that seems to be a cardamom / saffron combination. The problem with this scent is that the leather note is ill-defined — flat and surprisingly vague. Furthermore, the scent is very sweet — probably at least two notches beyond what most would deem appropriate for this style. The sweetness is caramel, and it does compliment the more floral and herbal components, but end result doesn’t add up to much. Over time the sweetness increases, and it reminds me a little bit of Cuir Amethyst — although perhaps not quite as sweet as that one. And then it all becomes a scratchy, norlimabanol-driven cardboard suede. I think that the ultimate nail in the coffin of this one, though, is simply that there are so many better versions of leather available than this one. If you want a leather where the leather’s turned down, and gourmand and savory facets are turned up, then it’s worth a sniff. For me, it holds little appeal, and it’s especially mediocre in relation to the jaw-droopingly good Bois d’Ascese and even the less-good-but-still-good Or du Serail.
greyz – :
Cuir Velours is beautiful! It is dominated by suede. It is a wonderfully luxurious fragrance, trailing behind you softly and envelops you in such richness.
It opens with a sweet tobacco note and then very slowly gradually changes to a supple suede scent. The suede is extremely elegant with a faintly sweet apricot. It is supported by the honeyed and sensuous immortelle flower. Dark sweet rum adds a hint of sweetness to the scent. The labdanum is very delicate with an amber feel.
The suede is the star in Cuir Velours. The other notes in Cuir Velours do not show their presence aggressively but instead shows itself in a delicate way to support the suede note. It is a beautiful and carefully thought-out fragrance!
On my skin, the sillage is decent and longevity is good!
Davilna – :
It is composed around Immortelle/ Tobacco/ Suede notes with support from a solid balsamic nectar.
It smells nice but more on the feminine side. Very mellow and stays close to skin.
narmatova – :
To me this is all about suede, like the smell of a brand new suede purse. Rum, immortelle and tobacco are detectable but remain in the background. On me it starts really well and promising but soon all these notes swirl in a rather sickeningly sweet combination which is just too much. All in all, a relief, since I don’t need another expensive bottle on my want list. For suede, I’m happy with Daim blond, Cuir amethyste or Bottega Veneta.
elq618intitytek – :
Cuir Velours by Naomi Goodsir.
An oriental soft leathery, sweet, spicy, boozy, balmy, smoky floral parfum with notes of rum, tobacco, labdanum, incense & immortelle.
I love the smell of this fragrance – there is a vanilla feel blended with plum and when combined with the rum, incense & suade it becomes delicious almost edible. The tobacco is faintly there with the labdanum in the background playing a minor role. The immortelle is present but not loud. This is all about the suede. It is sexy, rich, deep, thick, warm and it screams night time due to it’s potent edge.
To my nose this is unisex but it leans more towards the feminine side (I don’t mind I would still wear it).
There is minimum evolution with this fragrance as it stays relatively the same from beginning to end.
Longevity & Projection: Beast.
One word to describe this: Sensual.
Aisel – :
People! I LOVE, LOVE!! This fragrance! Scent wise this is really what I was hoping to find in a fragrance however did not expect to find it in Cuir Velours. To me this is a boozy sweet Suede yet still soft type of fragrance. I’d give the entire composition a perfect 10. HOWEVER, in the projection and longevity department I feel it unfortunately lacks more strength. Projection in my opinion is just ok. When to me this is definitely a scent which is worth being a projection monster because I would like everyone around me to smell this, and they will thank me for it. And longevity wise this lasted me about 5 hours, maybe six on a 19 degrees Celsius day. Who knows, maybe in much colder weather this would perform better. I hope it eventually would!
Blooliribre – :
allot of vanilla and coconut in here with a soft fabrics, but no leather or tobacco. maybe the harshness that i can barely sense in the vanilla accord gives the hint of tobacco.
it doesn’t give the impact of a leather unless you read the name which means a soft leather and think of a soft leather then you can feel it. quite ok and a long lasting on a blotter, and a very very sweetly vanilla creme, not the artificial one but the acceptable one.
update (7th sept 2014) the smell from the bottle is way different than the smell from a spray sample! i can feel the darkness that comes in the middle of that sweet vanilla fabrics when you spray this potion! it’s like a smoky haze shattered within & i don’t know if it’s leather but im sure it’s tobacco, something i felt it in my lungs! quite dark and offensive sexy! 2 sprays from this potion and you are on top of the world. damn it’s good.
demonldg – :
A pleasant surprise when I suddenly smelled this nectar of suede. Usually I do not appreciate suede notes but this is an exception: remarkable, particularly intense, very masculine, sweaty, with a highly charged sexual (labdanum). Very good Mrs. Goodsir!!
Osmik – :
Perfect. Surrounds your head all day in a blanket of warm, sensuous comfort. Not too sweet. Not too spicy. Just right.
102938 – :
I get a lovely, realistic, gentle incense softened with the qualities of suede. Very noticable rum note underneath these ‘fuzzy’ smoky notes but only up close to my nose. Also a warm, ‘golden’ tone is present from the immortelle. I can’t decide if I’d rather smell this on a man or a woman so true unisex methinks.
I, too, get an apricot note. Or is that just an association w/ suede peach-fuzziness by now? 😉 Later into the wearings of it I grew tired of the strong presentation of immortelle, which has begun to get more and more herbal dry on my skin, in every scent I mean, and reminds me too much of the desert I disliked in my youth (Southern CA). Associative, sure, but the strong immortelle presence on my skin made it less than a love for me, too much of a dry character. Can see it being very beautiful for people who love drier, soft smokey scents w/ sweet undertones.
(There is no leather on my skin, just a softly fuzzy suede. None of the heavy/burnt/polished varities. Must be chemistry dependent.)
mitiashka – :
Why have I never heard a word spoken by anyone about the house of Naomi Goodsir? Who is Naomi Goodsir, anyway? Maybe she’s a household name somewhere. All I know is that I found a generous spray sample vial marked only Cuir Velours in my queue, so someone thought that I might like this perfume. Since I don’t shop at LuckyScent (at .7 ml their skimpy sample vials are too small for me…), this could only have come from Min. Oh, I see that it’s written right there on the vial!
Suede, suede, suede. To me, this perfume is almost a suede solinote. It’s really very dominant and got me thinking of all of the suede perfumes I’ve ever known, including Balmain Jolie Madame and Hermès Kelly Calèche. Also Serge Lutens Daim Blond and Keiko Mecheri Cuir Cordoba. There is even some overlap with Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight in Paris and Bvlgari Black, though those last two are something of a stretch.
Cuir Velours is indeed, as the name implies, a smooth suede scent. I do smell some immortelle and tobacco blended in with the suede, but the labdanum is very light, though it comes through a bit more in the drydown. This is a nice suede composition, to be sure, but I personally prefer Keiko Mecheri Cuir Cordoba, which throws some iris into the mix. Perhaps Cuir Velours would be a better choice for the gents? Definitely worth testing by those who love the scent specifically of suede (this is not black, oily leather) in perfume.
uur646intitytek – :
در صورت تمایل به خرید این محصول،پیغام بگذارید
alexfssp – :
191) Licked leather
I absolutely do not know Naomi Goodsir, an Australian hat designer, and I readily admit having a little sigh at the idea of testing the two creations. Again poor creations sold very expensive to cover their mediocrity? (sorry but I still have the vile creations of Bond No. 9 in the nose)
Both were created by Julien Rasquinet who was a pupil of Pierre Bourdon, worked under the wing of Christine Nagel for Mane, before embark as an independent. And at smelling its two latest creations, therefore the 2 Naomi Goodsir orders, that succeeded him really well.
Cuir Velours is an oriental leather as its name indicates soft and cozy, with tasty notes of apricot, a rum(boozy) effect, which ends a little greedy and syrupy on skin but still a nice job on the matter and could easily join the harem of lovers of leathery tobacco as the new odalisque close to 1740 from HdeP.
Good longevity and sillage.
Too expensive-it’s twice the price of 1740 and not as well composed.
But bravo Julien, beau travail!
anna-1983 – :
The opening of Cuir Velours is gorgeous; tobacco and leather support a beautiful beautiful boozy fruit set of top notes. Peachy, rummy and a quick flash of something that smells to me like fresh strawberry. The actual fruit, with its tartness intact, rather than a sugary candy idea of strawberry. All of this is given loft by the incense note. The balance is so good that the whole thing sings as a rich whole.
The fleeting fresh fruit notes give way to a more raisiny rum fruit note and the smokier tones of the incense and tobacco. The effect is warm, sexy and sophisticated. The transition it does make is into a softer, amber version of itself. The leather, smokiness and incense remain subtle but detectable, overlaid with a softened version of the boozy fruit heart of the fragrance. The balance of this fragrance is noteworthy, with all aspects working in harmony.
Cuir Velours is sexy, perfect for nighttime and cooler weather, when something warm and smoky is called for. I get fantastic sillage and longevity from this fragrance. When I initially assembled the pump action spray that ships with the bottle, I thought the spray result was a little mean at first, but in reality I wouldn’t want anything more. The strength of this fragrance is very much an Eau de Parfum.
All in all a great investment and this winter I have been wearing this a lot already.
sereban – :
Nice scent, but with no sillage or longevity, at least on my skin. It is like a decaf Keiko Mecheri Cuir Cordoba. The tactile sensation is there (more suede rather than leather), but without the flowery touch of Keiko’s. Cuir Velours is milder, ethereal, and, unfortunately, short-lived. It is a shy and timid perfume.
vampir1647 – :
Cuir Velours strikes as a balmy-incense fragrance with sweet-boozy facets. The leather note is subdued and smooth, more sort of suedey while a well restrained immortelle note paired to tobacco, add even more depth enhancing the general warmness of this composition.
The fragrance leans towards the sweet side of the spectrum but it’s perfectly executed and balanced to never feel heavy or cloying. I’ve seen somewhere comparisons to Daim Blond and, somehow, they make sense (at least IMO). There’s a slight apricot-suede vibe going on which might indeed bring to mind of the aforementioned Lutens but, overall, Cuir Velours is more striking while still feeling plush and extremely rounded. The incense plays a relevant role providing a meditative facet and a modern twist. Other fragrances that came to mind for a reason or another are Trayee by Neela Vermeire (basically for the sweetish-incense quality) and 1740 (for the immortelle-tobacco-leather combo). With that said, I can’t say CV is objectively similar to either. It more shares with them an overall vibe and a distant kinship to then create its own peculiar allure.
A pleasure to wear for anyone into velvety oriental fragrances. Good projection and great lasting power.
Bravo to Mrs.Goodsir.
Rating: 7.5-8/10
Blade5551989 – :
A masterpiece. A soft, velvety leather that will fall in love with your skin, and its love will be returned. It’s one of those scents that doesn’t really add anything dramatically new to your skin, just makes it smell more personal and a whole lot better.
This perfume has lots of personality, in the sense that it’s really brilliant and unconventional, but it won’t impose his presence on you, will just make your personality shine. Without even apparently trying.