Cuir de Russie II (Attar) by Areej Le Doré

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Cuir de Russie II Areej Le Doré 2025 Attar

9.0 / 10 23 Ratings

A new perfume by Areej Le Doré for women and men, released in 2025. The scent is spicy-floral. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy

Floral

Leathery

Sweet

Animal

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Beaver tail oil

Birch tar

Heart Notes

Violet leaf

Blue lotus

Indonesian jasmine

Jasminum auriculatum Violet

Violet

Azerbaijani rose

Bulgarian rose

Moroccan rose

Pink lotus absolute

White lotus absolute

Base Notes

Deer musk absolute Amber

Amber

Choya Loban

Ratings

Scent

9.023 Ratings

Longevity

9.219 Ratings

Sillage

7.819 Ratings

Bottle

8.521 Ratings

Value for money

8.114 Ratings

Submitted by Jakobkn, last update on 11/07/2025.

Variant of the fragrance concentration

This is a variant of the perfume Cuir de Russie II (Extrait de Parfum) by Areej Le Doré, which differs in concentration.

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What the fragrance is similar to

Cuir de Russie II Extrait de Parfum

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/07/2025

Seacoins
43 Reviews

Seacoins

1

Beautiful leathery-musky scent

A leathery, smoky-animalic wrapped in exotic floral elements. The beaver tail oil & birch tar with a touch lotus really highlights themselves from the get-go as the opening smells like a well-polished brand-new leather bag/boot before the beautiful floral kicks in. Then the base later settles on the bed of leather, smoky incense ( the smokiness is very quiet), floral, and animalic musk.

The drydown is really beautiful with its powdery-musky-leathery effect. I really like how musk holds its position in the base. It isn't loud or trying to outshine other elements.
Attar is more denser, what a masterpiece

08/20/2025

DrB1414
264 Reviews

DrB1414

4

Quite Different from the Perfume

Cuir de Russie Part II, Attar.

As for the Attar, it is more to my taste. There is no powderiness that I can detect as it opens up immediately with the smokiness of the birch tar and then makes way for the polished leather accord. Second, the florals and the sweetness are dialed down and remain in the background. Even better for me, the sweetness is the least noticeable, while the florals sometimes poke their head through the leather wall but stay backstage for the most part. I like this version much better and prefer it over the perfume. While the extrait felt like a 50-50 leather and floral affair, I’d say that the attar is more like 70-30 in favor of the leather, with the sweetness significantly toned down. If you like the idea of less florals and sweetness, maybe go with the attar. I feel in this situation, there is no saying that one is better than the other; it comes down to personal preference, as they almost behave as two different scents.

IG:@memory.of.scents

07/10/2025

10Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

JimiKofski
16 Reviews

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JimiKofski

3

Everyday Wearable

From the new attars, I was sure that this one would be the most suitable for summer based on its ingredients, even though it has a certain heaviness. It is definitely my favorite of the 4 attars that were in the gift box.

It surprised me the most positively. Rose and other flowers, like lotus, come through at first and last longer than average. There is an animalic note present, but it doesn’t bother me at all; rather, it rounds off the scent well and doesn’t come across as dirty to me, although I have also gotten used to a certain animalic quality by now. I find it to be more floral than Wallimah 2, for example, but it is also different from Civet de Nuit, which is also described as a floral scent.

Somehow it reminds me of certain candies from my childhood. I can’t quite put into words why I like it so much. You can definitely notice the quality and the complexity that comes together from the individual raw materials. Let’s put it this way: if this is a novel, then an average designer fragrance is like a short story.

The best part is that it is everyday wearable; I would even describe it as office-appropriate, which I don’t often see with Areej le Dore, but of course, there is also the risk that it will run out the fastest.

Another thing to mention is that Russian Adam describes Cuir de Russie as a chord or its own genre, just like it is with Cyphre.

And regarding price-performance, what can I say? If you buy the fragrances directly from AlD, I actually find them reasonable and not too expensive, since the raw materials are limited and inherently costly, and considering all the work behind it, I don’t see it as too expensive. When I look at some designers where half the price comes just from the name, they are therefore 100% overpriced and cost double what they should actually cost.
Addendum:

I tried it on my roommate, and he found it too animalic; he preferred Inverno Russo, so this scent doesn’t appeal to everyone. In warm temperatures, the beaver tail oil also comes through quite clearly, which has a somewhat special note that I noticed afterward. You definitely have to sniff it more often.