Cuir d’Ange by Hermès | Fragrance Posse Remembering 2014

Posse! I’ve grabbed out my journey of Hermès Cuir d’Ange. I’m unsure why I used to be craving it when there’s a lot different leather-based love happening in the home. Nonetheless, it was the factor that I wished on my pores and skin. My 15ml is effectively over half empty which is each glorious and terrifying.

One in every of my favorite Cuir d’Ange recollections is Tara from A Bottled Rose and I behind a cab. After going to one of many large department shops and hitting the Hermès stand I had sprayed monumental quantities on. We’d spent the day with an enormous fragrance crew and had been each exhausted. Languidly Tara seemed over to me and mentioned, “Portia, that fragrance fits you so effectively”. It was a kind of lovely, candy, warming moments. So very subsequent likelihood, in Singapore, I grabbed a journey set with it included.

Cuir d’Ange by Hermès: Hermessence 2014

Fragrantica offers these featured accords:
Leather-based, Violet, Musk, Heliotrope, Hawthorn, Narcissus

How does Cuir d’Ange odor? Properly, it’s completely named. Like leather-based of angels. Most likely not angel pores and skin however perhaps they’ve attractive tremendous mushy, luxurious luggage to hold their harps and trumpets? Perhaps all of them have tremendous cool leather-based jackets with wing slits on the again? Who is aware of, it’s an inventive license not an allegory.

Leather-based and violet are an ideal partnership for me. There are a couple of of them within the assortment right here. DIOR Cuir Cannage, CHANEL Misia, Olfactive Studio Chambre Noir, Nicolai Baikal Leather-based Intense and Armani Cuir Amethyste are all full bottles. There are extra however I can’t suppose.

Have I used the phrase languorous recently? That’s how Cuir d’Ange smells. None of that onerous core, bitchy birch. No oudh. Right here we’re given a mushy, mushy leather-based. It’s effectively worn and cherished. It even carries traces of a signature scent. It’s a powdery floral, hints of inexperienced that has permeated the disguise. I can think about it feeling like placing on armour and likewise being a security web, a bit like a childs favorite blanket. It smells a lot like them that it turns into their secure place.

Cuir d’Ange isn’t any beast mode leather-based tyrant. It’s calm, fascinating, refined and comfy whereas nonetheless managing that beautiful austere Hermèssence really feel. Doesn’t must announce itself, or the particular person carrying it. An invisible defend and reminder how little we have to really feel refined and delightful. Sure, there’s a spot for the large weapons however there’s additionally a spot for an introverted leather-based, shared solely with the closest, and dearest.

The above image was taken on our 2022 Bali vacation.

Do you suppose Cuir d’Ange would possibly be just right for you?
Portia xx

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