Bottega Veneta Eau Sensuelle Bottega Veneta 2016

There are people who find the fine leather accord in the first Bottega scent too much, which I cannot understand. In the new flanker called "sensual" (as if the other Bottegas weren't), I don't sense any real leather. Maybe I'm just too insensitive to "delicate, soft, light suede"; I don't even know what such leather smells like in real life. In any case, it wasn't just me, but also my friend. Both of us, as confessed Bandit fans, could not recognize leather ("the way we know it"). Yet supposedly leather, as the DNA of the brand, is also present in Sensuelle, at least in the base note. And somehow you can still recognize the Bottega DNA in "Sensuelle," whether leathery or not.
In any case: The scent is beautiful. It comes across as more floral and delicate than the Bottega "original," and thus the delicate pink tint of the liquid is fitting. Instead of leather, I smell musk in the drydown, which gives the fragrance the substance it urgently needs if it doesn't want to be "demeaned" to mere floral water. This new version is cleverly made - and not, as so often, just an unnecessary and boring flanker. This new EdP is very refined and fits well into the line of the already very successful predecessor Bottegas. Hard to believe that Coty is behind it.