Top Notes 
Lemon
Bergamot
Heart Notes 
White suede
Violet
Mimosa
Base Notes 
Sandalwood
Amber
Tobacco
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Her perfume on his jacket
WHAT IT IS
A man's suede jacket after he lets his girlfriend wear it on a cool spring evening. The citrus upfront is lightweight before opening into a *beautiful* gray suede layered on top of spiced & sugared pipe tobacco. The first thing that came to mind was a suede bomber jacket that's been worn over a sweet Azzaro men's fragrance and an ethereal Chanel-like women's floral. This is among the cleanest, most mercifully restrained (4-5hrs max) leather fragrances out there and a home run for cool weather.
WHO IT'S FOR
You don't like leather fragrances, but wish you did. Almost masculine up close, but feminine in the sillage... as though a woman wearing Coco Mademoiselle has just hugged you. Skews youthful, not young.
ALTERNATIVES
Hawthorne's Play Wild and Botanic is the more masculine version of Animalique; suede and moss in a cool forest without any of the florals. Tom Ford's Ombre Leather and Diptyque's Eau Rihla are both similarly clean leathers, but are fruity instead of floral (and less wearable due to their strength). Tom Ford's White Suede comes closest, but the sharpness from the saffron is missing here.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Whether it's "for me" is less important than the fact that Jerome Epinette has created a fragrance that evokes a very specific and (I think) pretty common situation: at some point, many of us have smelled Coco Mademoiselle's sweet mimosa *and* the scent of leather from a jacket, handbag, or car in the same breath. For me, this is every art gallery opening, birthday happy hour, and night out with some new clothes - and somehow, now it's in a bottle. Beautiful work.
A man's suede jacket after he lets his girlfriend wear it on a cool spring evening. The citrus upfront is lightweight before opening into a *beautiful* gray suede layered on top of spiced & sugared pipe tobacco. The first thing that came to mind was a suede bomber jacket that's been worn over a sweet Azzaro men's fragrance and an ethereal Chanel-like women's floral. This is among the cleanest, most mercifully restrained (4-5hrs max) leather fragrances out there and a home run for cool weather.
WHO IT'S FOR
You don't like leather fragrances, but wish you did. Almost masculine up close, but feminine in the sillage... as though a woman wearing Coco Mademoiselle has just hugged you. Skews youthful, not young.
ALTERNATIVES
Hawthorne's Play Wild and Botanic is the more masculine version of Animalique; suede and moss in a cool forest without any of the florals. Tom Ford's Ombre Leather and Diptyque's Eau Rihla are both similarly clean leathers, but are fruity instead of floral (and less wearable due to their strength). Tom Ford's White Suede comes closest, but the sharpness from the saffron is missing here.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Whether it's "for me" is less important than the fact that Jerome Epinette has created a fragrance that evokes a very specific and (I think) pretty common situation: at some point, many of us have smelled Coco Mademoiselle's sweet mimosa *and* the scent of leather from a jacket, handbag, or car in the same breath. For me, this is every art gallery opening, birthday happy hour, and night out with some new clothes - and somehow, now it's in a bottle. Beautiful work.
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