Cuir

Description

Cuir’s aromatic opening of cardamom and absinthe segues into the heart of leather, the fragrance’s key element (Cuir means leather in French). Cade (an evergreen shrub native to the French Mediterranean coastal region) adds its smoky notes to the leather scent. The trail blends the animalic, tobacco-inflected and leathery facets of castoreum with the ambry, vanilla-inflected and resinous notes of opoponax.

At a glance

Golden leather

History

Leathery, smoky and ambry, Cuir is a perfume in Mona di Orio ‘Les Nombres d’Or’ Collection. This series of essences, composed for connoisseurs of fine fragrance, was inspired by the divine proportions of the harmonic ideal that has been recognized since Antiquity. It is the golden ratio, the “Nombre d’Or”. Intrigued and captivated by these aesthetic theories, the designer realized that she wanted to revisit some ineluctable, timeless accords from the history of perfumery. The scent features a leather accord enhanced with animalic and resinous tonalities of castoreum and opoponax. Cuir is a fragrance for him or for her. At selected points of sale. For more info: www.monadiorio.com

Range

EauEau de Toilette 3.4 oz.

Bottle

A ‘glass cube’ bottle sealed with a metal tie somewhat like the “cage” on a bottle of champagne. The symbol for the Greek letter phi adorns the bottle.