Cuir Ottoman

• Evening
• Night out
• Romantic

Cuir Ottoman is far from an aggressive leather: the idea is to recreate a luxurious, softened and sophisticated leather, in the image of the Ottoman Empire.

From the opening, the fragrance asserts a deep, textured leather that immediately brings to mind fine, patinated materials, like the interior of an old collector’s car or a vintage leather bag. There is something rich, almost retro, yet very elegant about it. This intensity is soon softened by a more powdery, velvety texture from iris butter, which smooths the raw edge of the leather.

Then the fragrance moves towards something more refined and cocooning. Egyptian jasmine brings a subtle floral softness that does not make the fragrance floral as such, but gives roundness and elegance to the whole. The leather becomes suppler, almost creamy, while keeping its depth.

Over time, Cuir Ottoman turns into a warm, sophisticated signature. The base takes on a more ambery dimension, cocooning and long-lasting. The fragrance stays beautifully balanced between power and softness, with a leather that keeps its character, powdery and deeply elegant. This is leather of real class.

Parfum d'Empire is an independent French perfume house founded in 2002 by Marc-Antoine Corticchiato, a perfumer and doctor of chemistry. Born in Morocco to Corsican parents, he grew up between his parents’ orange groves in Azemmour and the island’s maquis, in the family home in the village of Cuttoli Corticchiato. A passionate horseman since the age of eight, he did not learn to work with raw materials as a perfumer; rather, as a scientist, he analyzed them for years before bringing them to life. The house’s name refers to the “empire of the senses”, the conviction that perfume appeals not only to the sense of smell, but to all the senses at once. Perfume must be a conquest, romantic, spiritual, or of the self. His vision takes him back to the very origins of perfume: eroticism and the sacred, the two dimensions that all civilizations have recognized in it. His compositions are powerful, crafted without excess, with precision in the service of raw emotion. He draws from a repertoire of rare and complex raw materials, often rarely used elsewhere, chosen for their olfactory authenticity rather than their accessibility. Ambre russe evokes the last tsars. Cuir Ottoman traverses the Orient. Azemour les Orangers brings back to life the Mediterranean of his childhood. Corsica Furiosa and Tabac Tabou earned him two Fifi Awards in 2015 and 2016, the equivalent of the Oscars of the perfume world. A house that is entirely free, entirely unique, entirely itself.