Rose & Cuir by Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle

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Rose & Cuir Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle 2019

7.3 / 10 244 Ratings

A perfume by Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle for women, released in 2019. The scent is floral-green. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Floral

Green

Leathery

Fresh

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bourbon geranium

Blackcurrant

Geranium

Nepalese sichuan pepper

Heart Notes

Vetiver

Cedarwood

Base Notes

Isobutyl quinoline

Perfumer

Jean-Claude Ellena

Ratings

Scent

7.3244 Ratings

Longevity

8.1203 Ratings

Sillage

7.5202 Ratings

Bottle

7.9197 Ratings

Value for money

6.3103 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone · last update on 09/17/2025.

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Reviews

17 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/02/2020

8Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Lgsoltek
8 Reviews

Lgsoltek

2

Simplicity in heavy strokes

This one is untypically JCE, because it lasts rather long and it's actually quite loud, instead of in the usual pale anaemic and gone-in-five-minutes style that JCE is fond of/good at.

At the same time it's very typically JCE, because it's really just a very simple accord: blackcurrant + geranium + IBQ. Isobutylquinoline (IBQ) is what contributes to this loudness and longevity. It is that herbal leathery note, most famously overdosed by Germaine Cellier in her masterpiece Bandit. I love IBQ. I would even gladly wear a dilution of it alone as perfume. So yes, I like this Rose & Cuir, but that's mostly because I love IBQ.

So in the end, Rose & Cuir is just only a simple accord drawn with heavy strokes. Ellena compared this to Nicolas de Staël's paintings, and that actually makes perfect sense.

09/17/2025

1Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

xtermn8
185 Reviews

xtermn8

2

This is my least favorite fragrance of all time, and has been for years.

Personal: 1/10 – I hate this. Sharp leather, rose, and fresh spice. Everything I dislike semi-consistently put together into one fragrance. Olfactory punishment.
Mass appeal: 3.5/10 – Some avant-garde niche heads will claim to like it, but most people will recoil. It's too aggressive to be enjoyable.
Performance: 8/10 – Sadly, it lasts, and that harsh bitterness sticks around, despite the attempts to wash it off.
Value: 2/10 – Frédéric Malle pricing for something that feels like punishment? Not a chance.
Uniqueness: 8/10 – I’ll give it this: nothing else really smells like this. I'd like to keep it that way.

SCORE: 45/100

Full bottle buy? NO, never. I only keep my sample for when I wanna feel something.
Blind buy? NO, unless you like throwing money directly in the trash.
Recommend? NO, unless you want to punish yourself or understand why I hate it, but misery loves company, so thanks :)
Date night? NO, unless the goal is to get dumped.
Office safe? NO, unless HR needs a new horror story.

Pros: Avant-garde. Unique. Technically, it's well blended, I guess.
Cons: Nauseating. Harsh. Unwearable to me. Expensive self-sabotage.

This fragrance is exactly what I don’t want in a bottle: bitter, leathery, vegetal, sharp, synthetic, and clashing with my nose in every way it can. This is more of an art project gone wrong, by an artist who forgot perfume is actually, you know, supposed to be wearable. This feels like licking a new car seat while someone sprays you in the face with rose and plant stalk extract. I hate it, and it absolutely earns its place as one of the worst fragrances I've ever smelled, and my personal least favorite.

It makes me gag. I hate it. Please don't make me wear it.

Review #91 in my fragrance journey – this fragrance I own as a decant

04/10/2022

FilipMurray
18 Reviews

FilipMurray

3

A rose without a rose

You're not a fan of spicy and dark rose fragrances?

Even though Malle is famous for his spicy and oriental roses - there is a fresh and green rose offering from the house of Frederic Malle!

It is actually a rose without a rose. Geranium will make you think that you are smelling the best wet rose petals on a woody base.

Opening is peppery and green rose. Fresh and clean. More masculine than feminine.
It is a bit citrusy, but there are no citruses in it! It's citrusy because of the Sichuan pepper.

Just after a couple of minutes, your lungs will get an enormously high dose of blackcurrant. Green and calm.

Then, your nose will be able to detect a whole rose. Petals, stem and thorns. Vetiver and cedarwood will give you a vivid feeling that you're smelling a freshly picked rose from a garden.

I can pickup the idea of leather, but it is not that prominent. It's more like a chypre leather rather than a leather fragrance. Leather is here to give us some kind of a deep 3D feeling.

It is very long lasting and projection is great. It will do the job for the whole and it is a great performer even on a hot summer days.

Rose & Cuir is definitely JCE's strongest fragrance he did for FM.

05/18/2025

9.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

blth
3 Reviews

blth

1

Inspired, Alluring, Thorny

When Jean-Claude isn't producing his luxury spa scents and sophisticated room sprays, he composes seemingly non-chalant masterpieces like Leather Rose.

It's emotional, perhaps even brooding. The rose is attractive, mysterious, and has large razor-sharp thorns. Approach at your own risk.

You can smell the geranium, rose, timut pepper, quinoline, vetiver and peach. All of the components in perfect balance except for the leather. The sharp ozonic and peppery leather is the most pronounced accord, but it is softened by fresh rose, and made irresistably juicy by a subtle ripened peach and black currant accord.

It's as unique as it is superbly crafted and the quality of the ingredients, in line with Malle's price point, meets all expectations.

10/03/2019

CuirCuir
35 Reviews

CuirCuir

2

Green leather and no rose

Rose & Cuir by Frederic Malle was for me the most anticipated release of 2019 just because of the house and fragrance name. I love my leathers and with roses mixed in as in Habit Rouge, potential is huuuge. Elevator summary: there is no rose but lots of leather.

It starts green-fruity, reminding me perhaps of Diptyque L'Ombre dans l'Eau. Geranium plays the role of rose. Then it's mainly about cuir but not modern "car-seat" leather as known from Tom Ford or Acqua di Parma. It is green leather. If you're familiar with super-strong leather chypres of the 60s Cabochard or Azuree, you will instantly pick up the accord. Dry green leather that is outdated today but Ellena's version is not as loud and definitely more "wearable" today than Bandit or Cabochard.

Longevity is very good. Not what I expected but a very nice rebound for F. Malle after what they did with Music for a while:))) I have a feeling it won't be a bestseller but this is surely a 5-star material.

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