L'Art & La Matière

Cuir Béluga Guerlain 2005

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Ranked 36 in Unisex Perfume

8.5 / 10 1578 Ratings

A popular perfume by Guerlain for women and men, released in 2005. The scent is sweet-powdery. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet

Powdery

Leathery

Gourmand

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Everlasting flower

Patchouli

Base Notes

Vanilla

Suede

Amber

Heliotrope

Perfumer

Olivier Polge

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Ratings

Scent

8.51578 Ratings

Longevity

8.01367 Ratings

Sillage

7.11361 Ratings

Bottle

8.71247 Ratings

Value for money

6.4661 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 09/08/2024.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the "L'Art & La Matière" collection.

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Statements

18 short views on the fragrance

BertolucciK 4 years ago

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

In the opening, the freshness of aldehydes and mandarin followed by a sweet, dry immortelle with amber. Heliotrope and vanilla in the base.

5

Cumulnimbus 3 years ago

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

It is not just difficult not to love this blend of suede and powdery citrusy boozy vanilla, it is impossible not to adore it. I'm chained.

4

MariaS 3 years ago

8.5
Scent

Sensual creamy watery vanilla! Such a beautiful fragrance!! Wish it was cheaper!

4

Itchynose 5 years ago

7.5
Scent

Smooth vanilla and velvety suede. Sweet and elegant like expensive edible lipstick.

4

4ajbukoshka 2 years ago

10
Bottle 7
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Heaven can wait
as long as this exists:
most beautiful vanilla scent 5ever
surrounds

hugs one
Scent of angels
addictive like heroine

3

MiniGBIC 3 years ago

9
Bottle 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Aldehydes, Everlasting flower, Heliotrope: Usually scrares me off.
Here everything attracts me: For me almost perfect Vanilla + Leather.

3

RisingChaos 3 years ago

6
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Creamy vanilla + soft, almost fizzy suede opening settles with hints of the floral notes: honey, hay, almond. Gets sweeter as it dries down.

3

Bielwenass 4 years ago

6
Scent

Smooth and calm vanilla fragrance. No cuir here.

3

K84 5 years ago

10
Bottle 5
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Silky milky almondy suede with prominent Guerlinade. I really like its softness and tenderness.

3

HotTropic 2 months ago

I had to try a decant after reading all the positive reviews, but it smelled far too...mature for my taste. Like a wealthy older woman.

2

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Reviews

42 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/02/2012

5
Sillage 5
Longevity 5
Scent

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Critique Very helpful Review 4

The Emperor's New Clothes of Leather Perfumes

Guerlain CUIR BELUGA is really the Emperor's New Clothes of leather perfumes. How strange that one would want to make a non-leather leather fragrance. After all, no one forces a perfumer to make a leather perfume, so he/she can always choose to create another lightly floral amber vanilla instead, and that is in fact what we have here.

I'm not saying that every leather perfume must approach CABOCHARD, but CUIR BELUGA is much closer to L'Artisan Parfumeur BOIS FARINE! It doesn't make sense strategically, either, I think. When I took out my sample vial of CUIR BELUGA, I looked forward with great anticipation to a new leather perfume that would be refined and sophisticated, perhaps something really out of the ordinary. What I thought I could certainly count on was something very daring--isn't that the point of leather frags, after all? Leather is an intrinsically eccentric note--the very antithesis of most.

Instead, I found myself wearing a pleasant, but rather nondescript linear scent with a touch of the gourmandise of IRIS GANACHE and ANGELIQUE NOIRE in a floury-amber, not a leathery base! What a disappointment.

08/07/2014

10
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 10
Scent

MasterLi
375 Reviews

MasterLi

Analysis Helpful Review 5

Quiet perfection.

From beginning to end, this fragrance speaks of luxury. Like white suede chamois gloves or the soft white leather interior of a luxury car, it doesn't get any better than this.

Initially I get a very delicate, sparkling mandarin orange balanced by aldehydes. The soft, vanilla-heliotrope background is joined by the dry, honey-like texture of immortelle flower. Followed by Amber and more vanilla in the dry down.

This is a minimalist composition of only 15 ingredients, this is very different for a Guerlain fragrance (most of which are very rich and complex). I think that whilst this is minimalist, it speaks of quality all the way through.

A beautifully balanced, quiet, sweet and soft fragrance which really lets people know you have taste. In a class of its own, really.

10/07/2023

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Razvanyke
204 Reviews

Razvanyke

Story 3

This is what it is ..

First of all, the creativity of the scent is outstanding .. for the classy person wearing such a close to skin scent, this must be a signature perfume for sure.

I had the pleasure of smelling it on someone many years ago in the Berlin U-Bahn (Subway) where the seats are quite close and I was very impressed. Up to that point I never experienced such a seductive, sweet, leathery (suede) smell.

But like with many things an possible due to the nature of the naturals used in creating this smell, what we get today is not what I experienced back in the day.

Enjoy the video, thank you for watching.

05/03/2014

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

WRoth
154 Reviews

WRoth

Comparison 2

Cuir Beluga

his fragrance opens with aromas of vanilla, patchouli and leather. The notes blend into an unusual accord: a sweet, slightly salty, chocolate leather accord. I do not know if it is just my imagination but the saltiness reminds me of brine. The vanilla and patchouli notes balance this interesting facet which otherwise could have been rather off-putting. The fragrance is smooth and sophisticated and makes me think of an exotic milk chocolate bar made with goat’s or lama’s milk. If I had to name a scent sibling for this Guerlain offering I’d chose Odori’s Iris.

04/30/2021

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Static
45 Reviews

Static

Critique 1

Côte d’Azur by night!!

This fragrance is one of the best Vanille-gourmand ever!
The combination of Amber & vanille reminds me of a fresh cake out of the oven, you might have the feeling it leans more on the féminin side because of the sweetness (cake) + suede, but actually Thats Just a warm memory of nostalgie/Kitchen/fresh cake.
Cuir beluga is one of the best Vanilla scent out there & I’m not a big fan of Vanilla fragrances but this one has depth + the suede gives it a calm (suagry sweet) feeling .

Absolutely worth every penny!!!

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