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Cuir de Sumatra (Payan Bertrand)

A base — a blend, so no CAS number  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Fruity chypre leather
Leather 46%Woody 23%Animalic 15%Fruity 8%Earthy 8%
leather 92%fruity 8%

What does Cuir de Sumatra smell like?

Payan Bertrand's SIMPPAR 2025 innovation, made by co-distilling Sumatran patchouli with osmanthus flower rather than blending the two oils. Trade reports of the launch describe an astonishing woody-animalic note, a chypre leather with fruity suppleness that reads as both primal and terribly chic. The osmanthus apricot fruitiness is carried inside the earthy patchouli instead of sitting on top of it, and it works as a single leather-chypre base where a formula would otherwise need a patchouli, an osmanthus and a leather accord.

leatherywoodyanimalicfruityearthytenacious

Impact

7 of 10

Typical dilution

10% in solvent

What can replace Cuir de Sumatra?

Computed, not collected from forums. A pair covers together what one cannot. The number is the engine's match, not a promise.

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Which materials are closest to Cuir de Sumatra?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Cuir de Sumatra

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
not on file
Supplier and trade synonyms
not on file
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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Described in words
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Impact rating out of 10
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Classified into an olfactive family
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Carrying several families, in order
1,893
Sub-category assignments
7,409 across 214 pairs
A top / heart / base band
1,974
Hours on a blotter
441
CAS number
1,487
Supplier synonyms
5,222 names
Constituent breakdowns
667

Every regulatory join - IFRA, GHS, allergens - is by CAS number, and a material can supply one through its constituents as well as its own row, so of the 540 materials carrying no CAS number the 248 without a constituent table are the ones that return "nothing known" rather than "nothing applies". The blotter hours are sourced rather than measured by us, and the app labels every one of them an estimate. There is no physical chemistry on a row: no molecular weight, no vapour pressure, no boiling point. The longer answer, or the whole catalog counted.

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