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Cuir 28 is Le Labo's 2013 Dubai city exclusive by Nathalie Lorson — Easy Rider without the sweat and gasoline. Leather, wood and animalic notes open sticky and tarry, smoothing into vetiver, musks and natural vanilla absolute. Powerful, dark and memorable — a beast of a leather.
To me this smells like a leather jacket that has lived a real life. The leather here is not polished or pretty — it is sticky, dark, animalic, like a saddle that has known rain and sweat and miles. The animal notes are honest and unapologetic, vetiver adding a green, rooty earthiness underneath. Wood and musk try to civilize it, and vanilla absolute softens the edges with something almost edible — but this is Easy Rider, not a showroom. It is thrilling and it is feral, and it will not be tamed. Not for beginners — beginners stay away.
⚠ Not for beginners
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