Note

Suede

Suede suggests soft, dry leather with a fuzzy, slightly powdery warmth. In perfumes, a suede accord gives the heart and base a gentle leathery texture that works with iris, musks, and woods.

In 70 perfumes. Usually found in the drydown.

Opening
2%
Heart
38%
Drydown
61%
Found in Athalia, Nostos and Clean Suede

Most popular with suede

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to suede more often than chance would predict.

How it reads

Woody and leather above all. Reaches for warm spicy, balsamic and powdery far more often than the catalogue as a whole.

  • woody
  • leather
  • sweet
  • musky
  • balsamic
  • citrus
  • warm spicy
  • amber