Cuir de Lancôme {New Fragrance} {Fragrance News}
Lancôme will introduce a 6th perfume, Cuir (Leather), in the Lancôme Collection after Mille et Une Roses, Magie, Sikkim, Climat, and Sagamore. It is a re-edition of a perfume that was originally released in 1936 under the name Révolte, before being re-baptized Cuir in 1939 to de-politicize and soften its message......
Cuir is described as both a voluptuous and luminous leather perfume with floral, powdery, and balmy facets. The scent was adapted by perfumer Calice Becker in association with Pauline Zanoni. Calice Becker is already known for having reformulated another perfumery classic, Balmain Vent Vert.
The leather accord is based on mainly natural raw materials: birch from North America, an overdose of styrax from Canada, Indonesian patchouli, castoreum, and saffron.
Top notes are bergamot, mandarin, saffron. Heart notes are jasmine, ylang-ylang, hawthorn, patchouli. Base notes are orris, birch, and styrax.
According to the Times online it is or should be available at Harrods, £65 for a 50 ml eau de parfum.
"Lancôme’s robust, leathery Cuir de Lancôme Eau de Parfum is strangely moreish. Could it be because it reminds you of a really expensive handbag?"
(Sources: Osmoz.fr, Times Online, eBay.es)
"re-baptized Cuir in 1939 to de-politicize and soften its message......"
how revolting is this! maybe this hyprocritical corporate fascist world of today needs a good dose of Révolte right now! Lancome losing their own identity over politically correctness irks me so much. 1936 was a major year of social reform in France, that 's why Lancome had Révolte and Patou Vacances (over the first mandatory paid vacation)
lancome is not lancome, but l'oreal under another name. Cuir, like all relaunched perfumes, (diorama, diorling etc.) has no relation to its fabulous namesake, and, like magie, climat, and all the others, are just so much junk, sold to the gullible!
Just wondering about the "...leather accord is based on mainly natural raw materials: birch from North America, an overdose of styrax from Canada, Indonesian patchouli, castoreum, and saffron."
Is this for the new formulation as well? Would they be using natural castoreum?
This is the only leather I've come to enjoy from a sample. Very lovely, especially in the top notes for me.
thanks for your reply.
Rachel
This is a description for the new Cuir. They do say "based on raw materials" rather than "are raw materials", which would be a way of saying that it is derived from without being the real thing.