Oro 1920 Bois 1920 2013

I'll try to make it short: Who likes leather fragrances in principle, but is afraid to wear them in everyday life, because they often come along very polarizing and loud, "Oro 1920" should definitely take under the nose. For me, this is one of the best leather fragrances I have smelled so far. Price-wise it is steep, we don't need to talk about it. Over 300, - euros for 100ml ... ouch! If you then click on the "Fragrance Twins" button to find cheaper alternatives, you'll immediately come across "Tuscan Leather" by Tom Ford. This one I already know and yes ... both fragrances smell really very similar, are also quite loud and should therefore definitely be dosed with caution.

Even if the price of the "Tuscan Leather" is significantly lower than that of the "Oro 1920", I would without hesitation, of course, only if money would not play (*sniff), reach for the latter, because it is here the clearly more adult leather fragrance. Daring and special are both, but "Oro 1920" knows with a slightly smokier note, probably due to the fir balsam, to impress, in which then a much more discreet and so for me more pleasant raspberry mixes. The leather plays here, of course, still the first fiddle, is wonderfully dark, but without drifting into the unwearability, in the "leathery-muffy" of a worn armchair.
With "Tuscan Leather", on the other hand, we are dealing with a candidate who, on the one hand, wants to be more daring, more edgy, by playing with even more leather than is the case with "Ombre Leather", for example. At the same time he wants to make this edginess bearable for all those who usually can't cope with it. This making bearable is attempted with a much too loud raspberry, as fruity-sweetness is something pleasant for many. I don't want to condemn this by any means either, however this raspberry overload is too much for me. "Tuscan Leather" tries to find a middle ground edginess and pleasantness that just doesn't work. The more adult, with the raspberry better economizing "Oro 1920" does everything right in the end - the financial now excluded.