The drawing: leatherThe drawing: leather
Leather

Ingredients · Leather & smoke · Made in a lab

Leather

Tanned hide yields no extract; leather is a smoky, animalic accord of tars and resins.

What it is
A classic blend perfumers build from several materials.
How perfumers build it
Known in
Cuir de Russie (Chanel, 1924)
Worth knowing
Russia leather was dressed with birch-tar oil, the smoky material behind 'Russian leather' perfumes.

Named by the house in 90 of the 1080 perfumes read so far