Bottega Veneta Eau Légère Bottega Veneta 2013

Now I finally had the luck to get a sample of this beautiful fragrance. The description had immediately appealed to me, only I was skeptical because of the similarity to Cuero Mujer. I had bought a miniature of that once and found it absolutely awful. But now I am sure that he must have been tipped. It was also very old as I learned and rather meant for a set box. The leathery one could still smell out something but otherwise he was just bitter, sour, musty and pungent.
Bottega Veneta Eau Legere I like very well. Perhaps also because with the fragrance in me immediately the memory of my little dwarf poodle awakens, which I got as a young girl from my parents. It was a particularly sweet and affectionate animal and I was very fond of him. When the dog was slowly growing up, I went to a groomer for the first time together with my girlfriend and there it smelled just like the Eau Legere. The lady must have been wearing a very similar perfume, which I liked immediately. However, I associated the initial leather smell with the leather collars she also sold there. At the time, I didn't know there were perfumes with a leather note. On the next visits, it smelled the same again and I could still detect this smell somewhat on my dog's fur after the visits.
I remember one particular day in the summer in particular. My girlfriend and I were again at the groomer and afterwards we went for a walk in the forest adjacent there. There the dog always walked off leash because he never ran away and was very loyal and affectionate. Only this time it was different. Suddenly a horde of green dressed soldiers came towards us in goose step and suddenly my dog took to his heels in panic. I called out desperately and ran after him, but he was simply nowhere to be found. Completely desperate we went then sometime again home. My father, who was also very attached to the dog, immediately drove with me to the forest and we searched everything again, but unfortunately without success. I was dead sad and could not sleep of course. That night my father went out the door every two hours in the hope that the dog might have found its way back. And then sure enough, at about 5 in the morning, I heard a patter and my very relieved father come in the door. I was overjoyed and took the totally exhausted and thankfully uninjured dog into my arms.

I'm very much off topic now, unfortunately, but I found and still find it so amazing how a dog manages to find its way back in the dark and through so many roads and turnings for so many miles.

But now still to the fragrance: I find it very interesting, because on the one hand it has for me already a scent progression, in the beginning the leather is very dominant, then decreases somewhat and he then becomes more lovely, fresher and woody, but on the other hand as a whole still somehow forms a unit and also remains so present without greatly weakening.

This fragrance will definitely always remain in my collection, not least because of the association to my dog at the time.