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Cuir de Sumatra™ (Payan Bertrand)

A base — a blend, so no CAS number  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Fruity chypre leather

Impact

7 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Leather 46%Woody 23%Animalic 15%Fruity 8%Earthy 8%
leather 69%patchouli 23%apricot 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

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What can replace Cuir de Sumatra?

Computed, not collected from forums. A pair covers together what one cannot. The number is how much of this material's character a bottle carries, not a promise that it is the same thing.

  • Corinal
    carries leather, animalic. Patchouli woody; Apricot fruity; earthy
    63%
  • Corinal 68% + Clearwood Prisma 32%
    carries leather, Patchouli woody, animalic, earthy. Apricot fruity; Corinal brings the leather side (68%); Clearwood Prisma brings the Patchouli woody side (32%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    74%
  • Corinal 71% + Patchoulyl Acetate 29%
    carries leather, animalic. Patchouli woody; Apricot fruity; earthy; Corinal brings the leather side (71%); Patchoulyl Acetate brings the Patchouli woody side (29%)
    71%
  • Corinal 50% + Clearwood Prisma 30% + Fleur de Cuir 20%
    carries leather, animalic, earthy. Patchouli woody; Apricot fruity; Corinal brings the leather side (50%); Clearwood Prisma brings the Patchouli woody side (30%); Fleur de Cuir brings the leather side (20%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    75%
  • Corinal 74% + Palisandal 26%
    carries leather, animalic. Patchouli woody; Apricot fruity; earthy; Corinal brings the leather side (74%); Palisandal brings the Cedar woody side (26%)
    70%

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Cuir de Sumatra

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
3
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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Sub-category assignments
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A top / heart / base band
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Hours on a blotter
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CAS number
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Supplier synonyms
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Constituent breakdowns
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