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Cuir de Rube

@cuir-de-rube.bsky.social
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Scent lover, perfume reviewer, and extremely amateur perfumer. Substack: substack.com/@cuirderube?r=4btyt7&u…

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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I personally love it. I usually dilute it to 10%. The clear absolute I’m digging now is really nice. More resin/leather than crotch.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Ha. It might depend on the labdanum. I’ve had some really funky labdanums in the past. So funky that my wife hates any Labdanum now just out of principle.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I wish I could smell words. A book of words to describe smells (called Smell Words) is the next best thing. www.exlibrisodoratis.com/shop/p/smell...
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Smell Words — ex libris odoratis
This limited edition book is a collection of over 300 words that can be used to describe smell, fragrance, and perfume.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Fun Olfactive art in the Seattle area from the talented and creative Donna Lipowitz. The Scent Lending Library is such a cool idea! No shushing, no late fees, no waiting lists!
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Bleeb blop. Data dumping. open.substack.com/pub/cuirderu...
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Data and My Perfume Book of Life
In Einstein’s Dream, Alan Lightman wistfully imagines fantastical situations that a young Albert Einstein might have had dreamt while passing the time as a lowly patent clerk in Vienna.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I really like Korrigan! It’s all fluffy musk and slightly sweet booze on me. Not dirtiness in sight for me.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Thank you.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Seasonal Acquisition Disorder/Design. You decide. open.substack.com/pub/cuirderu...
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One Perfume to Rule the Season
Time of the season, season of the witch, seasons in the sun, there is a season.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Not indie/artisan or North America, but Jovoy Psychedelique is my patchouli standard. You can sample/buy it in the US.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Ha. I could definitely do without the Montale, but I see its place in that list. If nothing else, they are prolific. The 2016 date explains a lot!
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Wow. This list is like a time capsule. This smells like the 2010s. I haven’t smelled anything from the Vero line tho.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Thank you 🙏 so much. So is Y&I(WD)!! Thoroughly enjoying my full bottle starting yesterday.
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I Sniff Before I Sleep (Damiana) 🌼 @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Would you like to join me for Sample September? I’m welcoming this fun month by featuring @houseofmammoth.bsky.social, the artisan brand founded by artisan perfumer Ben Esposito. Read my house overview article ⬇️🔗 www.isniffbeforeisleep.com/house-of-mam...
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
…Following along. I love osmanthus as a material, but haven’t really liked anything in a finished perfume.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Just tentatively returning from a social media detox. Also, fall teaching, life, house projects, kids, US politics. I dig the community here, but being as active as I’ve been in the past isn’t feasible.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This was my spring jam! Love it.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Thank you! I dug your interview and write up too. A full bottle is on the way. Ha. I couldn’t help myself. It’s going to be my fall jam.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
You and I (Will Die), but that won’t stop me from sharing some House of Mammoth Love and a DIY drone and collage based on it. open.substack.com/pub/cuirderu...
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You and I (Will Die) and so will everyone you know, eventually.
In 1799 just outside of the city of Newburg, NY up the Hudson River, a farm laborer discovered a thigh bone of a mastodon (Mammut Americanum).
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Fingers crossed for atomizers. New Bogue is good. It’s an animalic, green, woody number. I like MEM and Maii more tho don’t own em…yet.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The new Bogue came in a sprayer, but others didn’t.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Great description. If you got the newest scent strip, check the missed connections. NdB is answer.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
How do you like NdB?
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thank you. 🙏
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Some nostalgic love for Canoe. Also, my feeble attempt to learn how to use Koala sampler. open.substack.com/pub/cuirderu...
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Canoe and Nostalgia
We can’t escape nostalgia these days.
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Filigree & Shadow @filigreeandshadow.co · 27/07/2025
Colorado librarians: Have you heard of any programs in Colorado that are available for people who might be losing their access to Medicaid? I’m not entirely sure what keywords to use for a successful search of the topic. #coloradosky #librariansky
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
You and I (will die) won the people’s choice at the iao & is so good. Wearing it today. Will be buying. The aldehydes remind me of Mark Buxton’s use for CdG and Le Labo. But better.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It was really fun. It’s also clear that I’m riding on the coattails of her tale talent. I also used ethyl maltol and didn’t hate it.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thank you so much. The story blew me away.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Created a companion scent to a beautiful short story my daughter wrote (age 12). A gift to grandmother and uncle for bdays.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Nice write up! Congrats.🍾
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
He’s never coming back you know.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Oh and me too, real name doxing style. Also, bonus points if you can guess the missed connection reviews.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
New digital scent strip droppped. www.immortalperfumes.com/subscribe-sc... not sure if the print sold out or not. Great read that crosses platforms for me: Damiana @isniffbeforeisleep.bsky.social , Sam Flores from Substack, & @filigreeandshadow.co does his best Hegel impression.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Thank you 🙏. That means a lot. I’m happy to send a little sample to make the decision easier next year if you like.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Back just for a minute to semd this into the ether. Hope you all are well and smell wonderful. open.substack.com/pub/cuirderu...
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Angeliki, Bernie, and the Return of the Retro Chypre
Sometimes your favorite perfumes come into your life by complete chance and not by a methodical chosen sample set, a subtle or not so subtle nudge by an Instagramer, or as often the case for me, a rab...
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thank you. 🙏 Oooh. That oil sounds beautiful. 🙌 I’m glad I’m not the only one who loves her bases. I saw that TR has a version of Blue Lotus that’s still available, so that’s going on the list.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I haven’t tried Sacred Scarab, but clearly need to. I need more Sultan Pasha in my life.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Briefly back to post this piece on blue lotus 🪷 in perfumery. I hope ya’ll are doing well. open.substack.com/pub/cuirderu...
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Blue Lotus in Perfumes & Perfumery
Ok, I said I was getting away from hyper focusing on singular notes, but this one is different; hear me out.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Taking a long break from social media. See you next month. Happy sniffing. Might post a Substack article in the meantime.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
They are so good. My plan is to get my fav materials. I wish I had enough to get them all.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Bee is a bit much. Less from the animalics & more from the sweetness. I think it will be a love/hate as well. Epona is a great leather. Hay, leather, animal. Just beautiful. Knize Ten, meets Tabac Tabou if you will. It uses a labdanum or something sticky in Dryad too.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
High five 🙌 I can’t wait. I haven’t sniffed her newest stuff so I’m super jazzed.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Nez Mag haul of my 3 favorite materials/notes over the past year. So cool. Also got samples of Papillon Hera & Epona, Zooologist Bee, & Angelos Tabac Libre.
Nez magazine. Immortelle, Narcissus, and Mimosa.
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nowsmellthis.bsky.social @nowsmellthis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"From cat urine to gunpowder: Exploring the peculiar smells of outer space" (bbc) www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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From cat urine to gunpowder: Exploring the peculiar smells of outer space
Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away – to learn about the makeup of the Universe.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Interestingly. I put that Miller Harris on my sample list. I own under my skin already so it might not be such a priority.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Yep. It’s pretty good so far. He’s coming through my area. I might go see him talk.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Saffron and iris can be leathery too. I want to put shoe laces into this immediately.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Just pulled this out for my Summer tray. Love the briney cumin.
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Cuir de Rube @cuir-de-rube.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Garden update. Tuberose have sprouted. Hopefully they can get there.🤞 Yarden bouquet #2 with sage, dogwood, and peachy climbing roses. Also first bolero rose of the year.
Tuberose bulbs in pots.Bouquet #2 sage, dogwood, and rosesBolero rose in vase
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