The leather of an old glove, turned sweet with age and use. Fresh and sticky tobacco that sticks to your fingers. Dark rum that floats in through open windows. A memory of a starlet wafting around a dimly lit club.
Julien Rasquinet’s perfume for Naomi Goodsir is for me, a pleasure. However, it is undeniably dizzyingly sweet — and mixed with that earthen tobacco, I could imagine this scent would overwhelm some. I think of it as a rather classical in it’s scent composition. The base notes are rum, cistus, labdanum, incense & immortelle, which provide a sweet and floral backing to a highly woody, tobacco, and leathery top note. This is undoubtedly an evening perfume, but I find layering this with one spritz of Acqua Di Parma’s Peonia Nobile (which has rose, patchouli, black pepper accords), softens the intensity of Cuir Velours.
Pairs well with — Soho (not Bar Italia), a third date, Marge Simpson’s thrifted Chanel boucle skirt-suit, a Laphroaig nightcap, the memory of parma violets.
8/10
find it here: Naomi Goodsir’s website & Bloom Perfumery