Le Labo · 2013 · Nathalie Lorson

Cuir 28

VersionEau de Parfum

Le Labo says

You’ll smell leather, wood, musky notes and natural vanilla absolute.

The house’s page

The drawn Cuir 28 bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Cuir 28’s scent picture, a draft: leather glove, musky notes, vanilla, sweet orange, iso e super drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Cuir 28, top notes: Sweet orange

Heartthe first hours

Cuir 28, heart: Leather glove, Musky notes

Dry-downhours later

Cuir 28, dry-down: Vanilla, Iso E Super

On the label

What’s inside it

16 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

3 citrus3 herbs & lavender5 florals3 woods1 sweet1 spices

Citrus3

LimoneneBitter orange oilCitral

Herbs & lavender3

Linalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals5

Hexyl cinnamalFarnesolGeranyl acetateGeraniolAmyl cinnamal

Woods3

SantalolIso E Super (pencil shavings)Vertofix

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Spices1

Isoeugenol

Not in Ingredients yet5

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetHexadecanolactone, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha terpinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoate

Named by Le Labo, never on a label

Leather, not in Ingredients yetMusky notes, not in Ingredients yetNatural vanilla absolute

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 16 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.