According to legend, Russian leather first appeared at the time of the tsars. Having galloped through the endless steppes of Russia, a Cossack warrior gathered around a campfire at nightfall with his fellow riders. He then came up with the idea of rubbing his leather boots with birch bark to make them waterproof. This diffused an extraordinary smell that immediately enchanted all of the riders. The Cuir de Russie scented candle takes its name from a famous legend that tsar horsemen rubbed their leather boots with birch bark and that an extraordinary fragrance was released. The mouth-blown glass of the scented candle is painted in a delicate cognac color and will go well in any interior as a beautiful, powerful and masculine decorative object.