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Manu, You are not going anywhere with this I believe the issue you see is real and since color is very subjective topic, each people have different standard, tolerance and sensitivity on this topic. you will not get satisfied answer whatsoever. at least based on reply so far including mine.
One thing you can/should try is using color checker and profile your camera to get neutral(hopefully) starting point and tweak the file for portrait or landscape and save those profile as well. I am going to do that with my 6D next.
As I mentioned earlier, for landscape cityscape, most likely, you were not as sensitive to color as portrait.(you will tweak color anyway to suit your subject) Skin tone is a hard test for digital sensor as it is involving color separation, Tonality, luminous changing of color response, raw engine etc... There is no recipe for good skin tone, but we human are extreme sensitive to nuance of hue, saturation, luminous, tonality changing here, thus usually very hard to tweak if you have sensitive eyes
A good sensor usually requires only correct WB and adjust exposure/midtone, and you are 90% there. others will be difficult, even with profile, as response at difference lighting and color intensity changing will alter the color perception. I heard good thing about Sony A900, A99. and D700 could be the best color Nikon body.
I personally don't feel canon is better.(actually a lot worse than D700 I have) your 5DIII might be different than my 6D. but even Canon's file with good skin tone usually at the expense of whitening/mute other color and make color lifeless. at least from most online pics I saw. This is just general feeling I have. And We all know good photographers with strong PP skill will always make it work no matter is Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax etc..
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