Cuir Nu

Opens with a strong and jammy oriental rose, akin to rose water. It is reminiscent of another Armani Prive fan favorite, Rose d' Arabie. Then the coffee note slowly gives it a bold, earthy, and roasted nut like aroma, right after the rose open. The coffee is a perfect complement to the rose, not at all overtaking it or dominating the scent. The combination of the rose and coffee, almost gives it a gourmand vibe. The mid begins to get more earthy and dark, while at the same time more sweet, but a different sweet from the rose, more of the tonka bean variety. The earthiness continues to the dry-down, and I have a hunch that the sweetness and earthiness is from patchouli (not listed in the notes). In the drydown, you are left with a sweet and faint tonka, and patchouli like vibe, and... oud! Yup! The final reveal of this incredible composition, is that this was a rose oud perfume all along! This is a beautiful, luxurious, oriental fragrance, designed perfectly for the modern western market. I feel like if there was a line of Armani Prive, solely focused on oud, this would serve as a strong flanker. There is a big similarity with Cuir Nu and Rose d' Arabie in the open (not the exact same), Cuir Nu is more complex in the open, and the similarities become more distant as they dry down. Where Rose d' Arabie dries down to a musky, vanillic, sandalwood at the dry-down, Cuir Nu goes down a sweet tonka bean route with a very obvious oud. Not animalic at all; I don't even know why Fragrantica has listed that as an accord. No popcorn, but there is a smell of freshly roasted coffee in the mid, which may be what people are calling "popcorn". Zero leather, like not even a little bit. No suede, no leathery notes, nothing!

Cuir Nu (2025) first impressions notes. (Imagery: you go to a large department store in Europe such as harrods London wearing a suede leather jacket and wool scarf . Then you sample some rose containing middle Eastern style niche fragrances that linger on your clothes. Then you sit in a coffee shop in the department store and order a cup of coffee and a berry topped patisserie item with buscuits...) Notes: - Opens up with sweet rose (from Rose D'arabie) and baked biscuits. It quickly darkens up from the roasted coffee. The gourmand buscuits transfom into more of a berry topped patisserie item . - Rose is very noticeable in the first hour then it starts dying down. Smooth non sharp suede leather joins in. The sweet berry gourmand vibe remains in the background for a while . There is a general ambery/balsamic feel in the background. Making the Fragrance overall smooth . - The coffee note fluctuates throughout and keeps taking a peek every now and then for many hours after application. It's more noticeable when smelled upclose. It comes and goes . - Within 2 to 3 hours the fragrance smells like a smooth suede with some coffee and a general ambery background. No rose . - The late drydown consists of a smooth tonka with some Musks. - It performs strongly in the first hour. It then becomes overall moderate and smooth . I was able to detect traces of it on my arm the next morning. - any similarities to ombre nomade are no more than 20%. They are significantly different. - no popcorn whatsoever. - very impressive so far .

At first spray this smelled quite nice but vaguely familiar, like it had a couple of reminiscent characteristics while still being it's own thing. Initially it does open up like a darker leather fragrance, not a dark leather, but moreso a softer leather- suede like- that has a dark mysterious character, probably coming from the coffee. That however doesn't last very long and is it dries and settles down you get a lot more of that sweet rose that uplifts the fragrance a little and the coffee mostly dissipates. It's the same kind of rose you'd fine in Rose d'Arabie, not surprising. Now as it's dried down it smells almost to me like a flanker of Rose d'Arabie, but instead of a strong dosage of earthy patchouli you get this somewhat dark style of leather. Throughout all of this, the fragrance maintains a subtle level of sweetness that manages to make it quite pleasant and not at all polarizing, in my opinion at least. I found the comparison to Ombre Nomad a bit strange at first, I didn't associate this fragrance with it at all. But now that I have that in my head and I smell the fragrance it does remind me a little of It, the leather accords do share some similarities, which might put it in a somewhat similar vain, but this lacks a lot of the OM characteristics. They're ultimately not that similar. This is still much closer to Rose d'Arabie

Underrated gem - my fav fragrance OAT, it's so good I made an account to write a review. Silky rose similar to MFK's rose, suede leather, cardamom warm spice paired with roasted coffee, and a sweet almost gourmand-like vanilla/tonka bean/ambery undertone. Lasts very long, easily 10 hours and performance is strong, not nuclear, but definetely strong. I'd say its quite appealing generally, very unique and MASTERFULLY blended.

This stuff is incredible. It starts out a bit confusing because right away you get that rose note that so closely resembles Rose D'Arabe, another star fragrance from this line. Once this fragrance starts to get away from the top note, you start getting this fantastic dark roasted coffee note wrapped with leather - phenomenal. Longevity and projection on my skin is very good - easily 8+ hours.