Dior Cuir Saddle is an oriental woody fragrance launched in 2025. Created by Francis Kurkdjian. Unisex, it is intended to be a contemporary take on leather. Notes of leather, suede, musk, floral and amberwood. Dior Cuir Saddle an eau de parfum, edp.
From the brand - "Imagined by Francis Kurkdjian as a soft and sensual leather, Cuir Saddle disrupts the codes of the leather accord in perfumery, echoing the Dior It bag that reinterpreted leather in the 2000s. This fragrance for women and men reveals luminous facets of white flowers, elevated by light woods. Soft and sensual, it melts into the skin in an organic and intimate embrace. Like the Saddle bag, the fragrance becomes an extension of the body—a trompe-l’œil leather, worn like a second skin.
From the perfumer Francis Kurkdjian - “The Saddle bag is an extension of the body. You slip it under your arm and it becomes one with your body. I took my inspiration from the feeling of leather on skin, fused with the skin, caressing the skin.”
Dior’s luxury fragrance line La Collection Privée has been reimagined for 2018, offering a new way for you to be dressed in Dior. Rebranded as Maison Christian Dior, it goes beyond a collection of fragrances to become a somewhat ritualistic concept; that of perfuming and embellishing spaces and moments in your life. “When I create perfumes I flout technical constraints, schedules, fashions and trends,” Demachy explains of his artistic process. The fragrances in this collection are formed in families of Orientals, Florals, Sensuals, Light Florals and Fruity Florals, non-specific to gender but without being labelled ‘unisex’.
Fragrantica - "Really well blended sophisticated leather/suede fragrance! The opening is like a party of flowers, leathers and a great soapy musk accord. Like walking in a 6star hotel lobby with leather suede sofas. After the opening the suede leathers kicks in and gives you an animalic punch ?, still it stays within the classy Dior style. Especially the drydown is showing the blending skills of mfk. Even though the notes are a bit rough (amber woods leather musk), the scent stays pleasant and sophisticated:)"
Fragrantica - "The leather note is beautiful, wrapped in a cloud of freshness, softness, and delicate florals. At first spray, the leather is quite strong, giving a more traditionally masculine impression, but over time it softens, enveloped in gentleness, and the scent becomes more delicate, suitable for women as well. The fragrance is very stylish."
Fragrantica - "As a leather fragrance collector, this is definitely a modern version of the accord and would smell more suede and softer lining of leather with a hint of red berries. What intrigues me would be the beautiful balance between this Amber molecule akin to Le Labo''s Another 13 and Kurdijan's white musk mastery. Leather has also been an issue on versatility, but this one works in any weather condition and setting. Elegant yet persistent. I have a feeling this will set the trend over vanilla."
