Eau Sauvage Fraîcheur Cuir

The lemon strikes with almost aggressive brightness, a burst of Sicilian sunlight cut with something mineral and austere. Within seconds, the leather's shadow creeps underneath—not obscuring the citrus but tinting it, as though you've squeezed lemon onto saddle hide. The spice emerges immediately, peppery and slightly green, transforming the opening into something genuinely complex rather than conventionally fresh.

By the first hour, cedar steps forward as the emotional core, woody and cool, neither soft nor aggressively masculine. The leather becomes the dominant player now, developing a lived-in quality—less about the perfumer's bench and more about actual wear. The citrus hasn't vanished; instead it's been integrated, creating a strange brightness within something fundamentally shadowed. There's an almost soapy cleanliness competing with the leather's earthy weight.

What remains is a whisper of that original lemon ghost over a leather-amber base that's become decidedly warm and skin-like. The woods have softened into the amber, creating a subtle woody-gourmand undertone that feels almost like afterthought. The fragrance becomes quieter, closer to skin, with only occasional spicy flickers reminding you it was ever sharp. It's intimate now, rather than declarative—a fragrance content to be discovered rather than announced.