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Bongo 2004

8.3 / 10 33 Ratings

A popular perfume by Bongo for men, released in 2004. The scent is spicy-leathery. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Leathery

Woody

Earthy

Green

Fragrance Notes

Leather

Cedarwood

Cocaine

Oakmoss

White pepper Oud

Oud

Patchouli

Perfumer

Karine Vinchon-Spehner

Ratings

Scent

8.333 Ratings

Longevity

8.832 Ratings

Sillage

8.332 Ratings

Bottle

7.933 Ratings

Value for money

6.718 Ratings

Submitted by Flodlodko · last update on 11/06/2025.

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Interesting Facts

In 2021, the scent was renamed to Vert Gothique.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Collezione Privata - Cuoio

Ombré Leather 16

Ombré Leather (2018) Eau de Parfum

Absinth Extrait de Parfum

Tuscan Leather Eau de Parfum

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/06/2025

RAT6EBER
73 Reviews

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RAT6EBER

1

pleasant tape-leather with mild-sweet notes

Smells good.
Especially leathery.
This leatheriness reminds me of tape smell as well as Cuir Eternel, Forever, Irish Leather, and Godolphin (by the way, NOT Layton XF, if you ask ME). Godolphin even has that combination of sweet and sour. Vert Gothique starts with a synthetic citrus accompaniment that persists into the heart phase, where the sourness gradually gives way to sweetness. The sweetness is not heavy or overwhelming, but feels airy and light. This fruity accompaniment also has something of a mix between Aventus and Bottled dupes. However, it fades within half an hour to a modestly arranged residue, so the overall scent concludes in a distinctly leathery unity.
The perfume is definitely a keeper.

Updated on 04/06/2025

12/03/2022

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Marcell84
7 Reviews

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Marcell84

3

Addicted

After I only had the scent as a scent strip and somehow never got a sample, I just ordered it blindly. When the fragrance finally arrived today, I sprayed it on right away and thought oops.... the beginning was a bit sobering. Leather lies on oak moss with a nice spiciness. After a few minutes, the strong oak moss scent fortunately subsides. It gets better! Still, I'm not convinced yet. I keep smelling and smelling and smelling... cocaine? Am I already addicted? After about 40 minutes, it starts. Patchouli and cedarwood with this sharp spiciness have put on the leather jacket and drive away the oak moss. I smell and smell and smell... cocaine?
Incredible! After I survived the opening like a fearless bad boy, I was rewarded. This fragrance has made me addicted... cocaine? In the end, it remains a very cool scent that smells spicy and dry of cedarwood and patchouli. Leather and oak moss round off the fragrance very, very subtly. I believe that you don't smell the cocaine, but it acts like an addiction.

01/16/2021

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Chizza
362 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 23

Initially known, then it must be experienced

After the team accidentally confused Ombre Leather with cherry liqueur and attributed the synthetic headache note to a side effect of a cheap private label from the discount store, resulting in nearly all the rockers having to go to the hospital except for three, Wolle took it upon himself with his two remaining comrades to find a perfume like Ombre Leather. Only in a wearable form for real men and ideally not suitable for consumption. Remaining besides him were Udo, who famously fell into a bathtub of homemade liquor as a child and could therefore
effortlessly down several bottles of Ombre Leather, and Hotte, who now followed the monthly theme of whatever was declared. January, as the month for "fasting" regarding alcohol and meat, meant he only drank Club Cola and could still stand.

Wolle wanted to join in but couldn't hold out and failed in his attempts at deception. The problem was that his flask, while fitting into the Bible or The Brothers Karamazov, no one believed he would actually read those works. The Playboy, on the other hand, did not accommodate the flask. So Wolle was quickly unmasked.

In any case, thanks to the well-known dating platform Parfumo, they came across Oakmoss by Morris Motley, where testers reported similarities to Tuscan Leather and Ombre Leather. Quickly purchased, a few female profile pictures stalked, and waited for the scent with plenty of beer. For a brief moment, they considered visiting their friends in the hospital, but there was no beer there, and the topic was quickly dropped.

So tested:
“It doesn’t smell like Tuscan Leather at all.”
“You're right, Hotte. For me, it’s more in the direction of Ombre Leather. Including the piercing artificial sweet leather note. Now I feel like having Amaretto.”
For this, Wolle was slapped on the left and right by Udo.
“Sorry, guys, I’ll obviously take beer! But do you know what it really smells like? Classic Leather by Oudh Al Anfar, and even if Oakmoss should be of higher quality in terms of ingredients, the result is identical. At least in the first few minutes.”

“Well, this lovely green, this oakmoss-leather nonsense isn’t that great later on either. This underlying vetiver without the earthy notes isn’t either.”
“They say there’s cocaine in it. So olfactorily.”
“We're tough men, who’s ever tried that? Be honest!” Wolle demanded.
Embarrassed silence. “No one?”
“What about you, Wolle?”
“I just pretended with sugar once but I pushed the tube too far up my nose, so I got caught.”

They got drunk and later tested again to see if anything had changed. It had.
“Now the saffron is coming through, guys.”
“None is in there according to the pyramid.”
“But it smells like it.”
“Whatever, let’s write down note for note how it works, then it looks like we have insight.”
“Yeah, just like that Chizza, who can’t really tell leather from a tulip, olfactorily. And also otherwise.”
“Now Oakmoss reminds me of Cuoio by Pal Zileri, just without the stricter wild note, maybe a bit greener too.”

They were satisfied, having finished analyzing the scent. Hotte’s wife came, and the men reported to her.
“Wow, you’re real experts! You should write on Parfumo too!”
“Wolle is already registered there. Multiple times. As Pollito, MarioMmmmhhh, and MonsieurBiertest.”

In the end, Oakmoss is a spicy green leather scent, where the leather is distinctly colored. Even though it has similarities to other leather scents, it gradually distances itself from them. The so-called cocaine note replaces the saffron, becoming slightly spicy due to the pepper. The cedar plays in the background, hinting at a slightly woody base note. The beginning personally causes me associations and thus headaches due to the artificiality reminiscent of Ombre Leather. After that, it’s okay, smells decent but doesn’t win me over. Oakmoss doesn’t remind me of Tuscan Leather unless one is so taken by the bitter saffron-like facet that one reduces the scent to that. Then the TL comparison fits quite well.