Bottega Veneta pour Homme Bottega Veneta 2013 Eau de Toilette

Leather fragrances are not necessarily mine. Years ago I had once Burberry brit rhythm get a gift and found him actually interesting. Have but quickly lost interest again and never touched again a leather scent.
The other day I smelled a very great leathery scent at work and was dying to know what it was.
The wearer was an older gentleman who didn't know what he was wearing himself.
This scent sparked my interest in leather.
So off to the perfumery and sniffed for leather scents.
The nice lady has pushed me next to Tuscan leather and Ombré leather also Bottega Veneta Pour Homme in the hand.
Out of all of them, I liked the Bottega Veneta the best. He smelled though not after this dark leather which I had smelled at work.
In fact, it's relatively far from it. It opens with an extremely woodsy, fresh note. It reminds me a bit of my spruce needle bubble bath. At the same time, it's already very leathery. But no dry, dark leather, but bright and very soft.
After this very friendly prelude, follows an extremely resinous smell, which together with the leather determines the further course of the fragrance.
That a leather fragrance can be so fresh and modern has surprised me and together with the sage and juniper it forms a very elegant and confident combination.
It's just so fundamentally different and unlike what I normally wear, yet it just feels natural when I wear it.
This is also because you can smell out the individual components very well and all harmonize very well with each other.

"Pour Homme" you will not smell everywhere and you have to have a confident demeanor and a certain casualness to be able to wear it.
If that's true, it definitely has what it takes to be a signature fragrance.

I find the longevity to be very solid. So short-winded as all describe him, he is not for me.
For me, he holds loosely 5-6 hours. After that you have to re-spray