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Leather Essence Ferrari 2013

7.9 / 10 70 Ratings

A popular perfume by Ferrari for men, released in 2013. The scent is leathery-spicy. It was last marketed by Perfume Holding.
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Main accords

Leathery

Spicy

Sweet

Woody

Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bitter orange Clove

Clove

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Black leather

Cinnamon

Tonka bean

Base Notes

Vanilla

Gaiac wood

Patchouli

Cedarwood

Perfumer

Alexandra Carlin

Ratings

Scent

7.970 Ratings

Longevity

7.163 Ratings

Sillage

6.763 Ratings

Bottle

8.574 Ratings

Value for money

8.716 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 02/18/2024.

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/14/2016

10Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

Elysium
898 Reviews

Elysium

Helpful Review 4

Like a raw leather biker jacket, creamy and powdery!

By the way, I was looking for an oud-based perfume as a replacement for my treasured "M7 (Eau de Toilette) | Yves Saint Laurent", and I came across Essence Oud. Don't get me wrong, and I meant precisely Essence Oud. While getting more details about that, I found a vast collection of FERRARI essences, and Leather is one of those, meant to be oriental, leathery, and fougére.

This is the first time I got a FERRARI perfume; never tried any before. So, just following the first squirt, I got a spicy, sweet, and warm aroma of clove buds blended with tart orange peel and just a feel of bergamot. Ain't no medicinal note in there, but something slightly subtle and powdery. I think I adore that inception, miles away from the traditional citrus top notes of many other fragrances.

As soon as that pleasant blend fades down, the starring notes of this leathery juice begin revealing their best. I catch plenty of luxury dark leather accord surrounded by sensual tonka and a pinch of aromatic cassia bark spread around the woody notes with a red-hot candy nuance.

The dry down is rich in superior patchouli, cedar smoothness and guaiac wood smokiness, and an amusing touch of creamy vanilla powder. The overall scent is captivating, not boring at all.

Meseems, Leather Essence is a refined and exquisite fragrance that makes a masculine signature. I recommend this for cooler temperatures like fall and winter, both during a day and night out. Since it is not overpowering can be safely worn at work. Longevity and sillage are above the average on my skin, an exceptional fragrance. An exciting thing, the bottle is wrapped by an excellent leather cover that reminds the interior of the Ferrari GT. To me, this scent deserves a complete 8/10! You know what? I am tempted to buy Vetiver Essence as it sounds promising!!!

-Elysium

05/01/2019

8.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Hitchslap
106 Reviews

Hitchslap

2

Above Average Scent at A Very Average Price

Leather indeed and Ferrari, of all marques, seems to be looking out for the average person.

No big price tag for such a great scent that the novice or budget minded collector of scents can afford.

Not sickly sweet like Tom Ford's better known leather based perfumes. The cinnamon, clove and black leather notes make this a serious scent, special events worthy.

03/10/2019

9Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Sejano
4 Reviews

Sejano

1

Exquisite Leather

This parfum is representative from Ferrari mark: Elegancy and luxury in a bottle. The only difference between the parfum and the cars are the price.
Ferrari Letaher Essence is a sweet and exquisite leather dessigned for the modern Uomo to wear with a leather jacket, shirt and trouser pants.
Excellent sillage and Longevity up the 12 hours. Price is equivalent to buy a Fiat car not a Ferrari.

04/04/2021

6.5Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Chizza
361 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 24

Leather is completely gone for the seats

“Is this the best you could come up with? It smells like it’s from Alberto.”
“I wanted to design something special, something fitting for your car brand. Better than the Fiat scents, right?”
“I don’t know how we’re going to manage this... you can’t smell any leather... probably only one person can help now to save the scent and the many years of research and development. Alberto, uh... Madame Perfumer, give me the phone.”

Five minutes later, a phone rings, a stocky man picks up: “Yes, please? Aha, yes, I understand. Yes.... yes, of course. Italy, you say? No problem, I can be there tomorrow. However.... you’ve dialed the wrong number, this is Trevor Ochmonek.”
Another phone rings. A man on his motorcycle tries to answer the call, but his phone slips into his pants, where it continues to vibrate. After a dozen missed calls, the caller from Maranello reaches the heavily breathing man:
“Wolle?”
“Yes, sure.”
“This is the Head of Scents from Ferrari, Cravio Briavache. We want to release a leather scent and our perfumer is suffering from the Morillas syndrome. We need you. Can you be here tomorrow to inspect the scent? See what can be saved?”
“Well...”
“We have beer. Lots of beer.”
“Then see you tomorrow-wait a moment!”
“Veltins and Karlskrone in cans, no Italian beer. Wolle? Wolle??? Just hung up....”
“Excuse me, Mr. Briavache?”
“Not now...”
“But a Mr. Wollny is downstairs at reception, you’re expecting him.”

Next day:
“I can already tell what’s going on. You forgot the leather. Your apple-cinnamon compote is nice but more like a dessert. Ah, the bitter orange doesn’t cut it. Good thing it’s there, at least it covers the remaining sweetness. Where does the perfumer come from? Ferrero?”
“Yes, actually, were you able to smell that out?”
“No, I only know Ferrero besides Ferrari when it comes to Italy. But I’ll see what can be saved....”
“Are you pouring beer into that?”
“Sure, it can only get better. Leather would be good too; it should be a leather scent, right?”
“I’ll get you what you need!”
“Just get me leather, I’ll improvise with the rest here. It gets better after half an hour anyway.”

Indeed, the patchouli took over, which smelled more like grasses. Woody notes also emerged, but they were rather weak and served mainly to maintain the initial sweetness over the following hours. Leather Essence was designed to be very pleasant, almost toothless. Leather was noticeable later, Wolle will report this, but I hope that’s not how leather seats smell in a Ferrari.

Hours, if not days later:
“So, I’m done. First of all, thanks for the leather you usually use to decorate your cars. I made myself a pair of pants out of it.”
“With one leg and from your backside with a cutout?”
“That’s how you wear it on the biggest runway in the world, in Herne.”
“Yeah, well, better explain to us how you saved the olfactory disaster.”
“With leather. Sure, my favorite dating portal Parfumo won’t rate the scent 9/10, that was impossible. But: solid. Solid like your sleds, although I swear by my Daihatsu. Unfortunately, it only has a hole in the dashboard. I thought it was a button and bam! Hole in it. Well. The leather, in any case, plays in the background, embracing the sweet brew at the beginning so that one thinks: Oops, this isn’t so bad after all. Not good, more like a scent of Bayer Leverkusen, but not bad either.”
“Wolle, there really wasn’t anything more to be salvaged?”
“It gets better later, we’re already talking about almost Europa League. The leather is almost completely gone; I needed it for my pants, and the rest was just enough to conjure up the wood-patchouli thing as arbitrarily as possible. No one thinks now, ‘Wow, that’s bad,’ but rather: ‘Oh, already forgotten the scent! Good, huh?’”
“Oh no, there really wasn’t more to be done?”
“I loosened it up with vanilla. Now it’s something for the whole Marley clientele.”
“Good idea! But where did the vanilla come from?”
“Müller chocolate pudding with vanilla sauce. I don’t like it and then poured it into the scent.”

“Well, and will it stay like that?”
“No, because if I had continued to accentuate the base after about an hour, it would have sooner or later become apparent that it’s rather mediocre. Therefore, it becomes mushy and poorly definable afterwards. If this isn’t a scent with a lot of leather, wink, wink.”
“Wolle, even if you don’t have many skills, like not soiling the toilet when used or using deodorant, you can elevate bad scents to the gray average!”

Leather Essence by Ferrari hardly smells of leather. The sweet-fruity elements are not too strong but still constructed to be acceptable. The development doesn’t fundamentally change, even when it becomes woody. Overall, a scent that doesn’t stand out negatively, which probably hardly stands out at all. Solid as a rock.

07/12/2014

7Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

VegaOcean
155 Reviews

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VegaOcean

Helpful Review 7

The Leather Bargain a la A*MEN

Surprise. For around €60, you get a blend of Mugler's A*MEN Havana/Malt and the typical leather notes a la Tom Ford - Tuscan Leather, just not as smoky and raspberry-like. The leather feels a bit chemically treated, but not unpleasant.

We start fresh with bergamot, which lasts only a few minutes.
Right after that, the heart... leather enveloped by vanilla.
However, after an hour, the scent becomes rather weak.
It smells more like tonka bean than leather. I hardly sense the woods... more like a caramel candy with a hint of cinnamon. What a pity. The woods in the dry down would have been important here. Hardly any sillage, under an arm's length, and only lasts 3 hours. Average, but not bad for the money.

Who wears it? More for fans of 1 Million and A*Men. On men over 40, it smells almost embarrassing. Women can also give it a try...