Reviews of Cuir de Russie (1939)
by Piver

The manufacturer's website makes it clear that this is an updated version of the 1939 scent. Despite it's current Basenotes unisex classification, the manufacturer has it unambiguously as a masculine scent.

When I first tested it I didn't know what to make of it - honey and leather is an unusual combination. The scent lasts all of a working day, and the honey retracts somewhat, leaving an extremely pleasant sweet leather scent that keeps wafting nicely. I'm generally not much of a fan of rough leathery scents, but I am a fan of Curion, and now of Piver's Cuir de Russie.
Renato

This CdR has generated one of those opportunities to say I, a woman, wouldn't wear this scent, but I have to aknowledge its distinction.

When I close my eyes and try to follow this scent to its source, my mind conjures a visit to an old sawmill with decades of pugency. This mill offers historic reenactments, so I can smell the large metal sawblade glistening with oil from a recent sharpening, and there's just a bit of burnt odor from the enormous leather belt that chafes on and turns the sawmill's flywheel. I'm not sure what kind of wood they're cutting, but it has a mildly spicy content.

This is an attractive scent that I'd prefer to encounter as a foyer potpourri.

I have a Barbershop in the Netherlands.Whe sell the most of L.T Piver fragrance,s.im happy there are a lot of people they like L.t Piver.At last the Cuir De Russie Lotion is back for over 50 years.www.barbershopclassics.nl

A proletarian take on the "Russian Leather" accord. Where Chanel's Cuir de Russie is sublime floral smoke and leather, and Creed's Cuir de Russie is a complex and kaliedescopic journey through a well-kept stable bursting with polished and oiled riding tack, Piver's offering is just a solid-if-flat concoction of a slightly harsh bergamot/carnation held aloft by a patently synthetic leather. The prominent note is not leather though; it's a metallic mandarin slightly evocative of L'Anarchiste but just barely. This isn't to say Piver's Cuir isn't good. It's actually not bad and in fact, it gets better during the drydown where the sillage improves with time as it slowly reveals cedarwoods and spice. Am I glad I bought it blind? Sure, but L'Anarchiste does this better. Will I actually use it? Maybe. Sometimes. Probably not often. It's certain to be a nearly full bottle at my eventual estate sale, pending my eventual demise of course.

A juuuuust barely thumbs up.