Leder 6 / Fetisch by J.F. Schwarzlose Berlin

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Leder 6
Fetisch
J.F. Schwarzlose Berlin 2015

8.0 / 10 930 Ratings

A popular perfume by J.F. Schwarzlose Berlin for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is leathery-smoky. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Leathery

Smoky

Spicy

Sweet

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Leathery notes

Saffron blossom

Heart Notes

Milk

Vanilla

Base Notes

Frankincense

Japanese styrax

Perfumer

Véronique Nyberg

Ratings

Scent

8.0930 Ratings

Longevity

7.8849 Ratings

Sillage

7.3845 Ratings

Bottle

7.7756 Ratings

Value for money

7.3551 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 11/14/2025.

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Reviews

54 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/09/2023

Static
47 Reviews

Static

2

Don’t let the high go to waste

Sometimes less is more you know? Everything is so expensive these days, global heating fucked up collegues at work (and supervisors), everybody is complaining you know.
The thing i love in niche fragrances is that the nose behind this fragrance is isolated in a way from this world and just focused on formula’s. Leather 6 is realy one of my top 3 fragrances ever!!! This juice got me so elevated that I’m speechless. Yes there is leather, and some burned sugar but dont let the name get you confused. This is my signature scent for now and we are in hot summer time!!!

Its getting hot in here!!!!!

03/12/2023

8.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Lovelybrutal
16 Reviews

Lovelybrutal

3

Eyes wide shut in leather

With the background knowledge that the fragrance was released as ’Fetish‘, you can get involved with it in a completely different way. It is a very harmonious interplay of leather, incense and a vanilla-sweet component. The motto comes across perfectly without being vulgar or obtrusive. You can't expect a dingy sauna club with the motto "Vinyl and Leather" every third Saturday, but rather the olfactory description of a somewhat different but stylish nightclub. Very sexy.

03/03/2019

6.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 37

With Cream

The name "Schwarzlose" lends itself to some wicked jokes. One of my comrades in the Bundeswehr had to learn this the hard way from superiors. Well, talent for leadership apparently played no central role (at least during conscription times) in filling the middle ranks of the greatest reality satire in our country.

I mention this only because I have little to say about the scent itself and I don't want to dwell excessively on the disproportion between name and fragrance, which has been sufficiently addressed. All I can do is express my discomfort with "Leder 6." This is not surprising. Where the announcement "Milk" is present, it is usually not far behind, the…

But let's start from the beginning: Mild, soft leather with some sweetness and a tiny, diffuse hint that touches the fruity side. A bit of ethereal freshness enhances the impression of light leather. After a few minutes, a sweetish smoke forms, which I would probably enjoy, were it not for the rapid emergence of this milk, which I believe points to guaiac. And indeed. Amidst all the sweet-smoky plus hinted sour-fruity notes, this burnt milk always emerges, which I know quite similarly from "Palo Santo" (by Carner) - a synonym for guaiac.

This may undoubtedly score points as a beautiful, sweet, possibly even sensual little treat for others, but I feel a sense of overdose of caramel H-cream mush by midday, in which not even a leather spoon is stirred. On top of that, a sugary amber base adds (unnecessarily) extra sweetness.

However, I do hold the valiant balancing attempts in high regard: There’s the dusty-bitter resin note that quietly simmers in the background, the greenish touch in the smoke - apparently, the incense presents us with its green-sour side - or as it progresses, a dusty, light wood. They all at least try to tame the caramel or burnt milk. Still, by the afternoon, the thought occurs to me that I am dealing with sweetened H-cream on dry wood.

Leather? I am well aware that leather scents can indeed be very sweet and often (as today) can spring from a veritable toolbox of various ingredients - but here, as the time goes on, I can't even find a significant illusion of leather, the cream is too overpowering. The now conceivable remark that the leather is only mentioned in the top note seems rather pedantic to me. After all, that’s what the stuff is called!

Conclusion: For others. For my - highly subjective - assessment, I ask for understanding.

I thank MisterE for the sample.

10/02/2015

8Scent 7.5Longevity 10Sillage

Achilles
83 Reviews

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Achilles

Top Review 27

The high end of low

What all kinds of fetishes exist! Neil Morris has one, Roja Dove, Alkemia...and now also J.F. Schwarzlose.
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to test it before the official launch in 1-2 weeks, and wow, it has something to offer! A very complex fragrance creation that amusingly has a very well-known scent twin in the drydown, more on that later.

Right from the start, the fragrance opens with full, robust, distinctive leather notes, very much contrasted by sweet, smooth, spicy saffron and milk notes, lightly roasted.
I read something about burnt milk in Palo Santo, which I don't know myself. However, this milk is more caramelized with fresh, bold vanilla pod, and maybe dried fruit, which is thanks to the vanilla in the heart note and especially the styrax as the dominant note. As it develops, you also smell accords of peach and - rubber. But, strangely enough, this is not off-putting. Perhaps the rubbery note is meant to evoke one of the fetishes that are as varied as people. Not least, the contrast between sharp-bitter and sweet is emphasized by incense.

So, with this fragrance, two strong main lines run parallel and harmonize without overshadowing or disturbing each other, and neither of them seems odd next to the other. Not every fragrance can do that!
The first two impressions up to the heart reminded me personally on my skin strongly of Black Afgano (resinous and dried fruits), parts of Blamage (milk and peach), Black Oud/LM (labdanum/vanilla).

Those who wait for the top and heart notes might ultimately be satisfied with a more affordable scent twin: Midnight in Paris (Edt). They smell identical to me in the base. Comparing the ingredients makes it clear. They share leather, incense, and as a sweet contrast tonka and many others in a combination that could furnish a candy store.
Thus, Fetisch is not the messiah of the fragrance world, but nonetheless an interesting scent for those who want MiP as niche and expensive and exclusive. It also fits well for autumn/winter.

Oh, and if the extremely charming and pretty young lady from the Schwarzlose stand at KaDeWe is reading this, who has been using it daily for weeks now (You said you read along): I told you, I write a lot! Maybe you discovered the fragrance in one or another description as well. Oh yes, for me it does not unfold floral towards the end, rather balsamic-smoky.
In any case, it was beautiful and abstract enough to want to comment on it. Testing it is worth it!

11/05/2017

7Scent 6Longevity 5Sillage

loewenherz
917 Reviews

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loewenherz

Top Review 33

KitKatClub

One of the mysteries of Berlin that stubbornly persists - at least for those not from the capital - is the KitKatClub in Mitte (it used to be somewhere else, too). Back when there were TV formats like 'Liebe Sünde' or 'Wa(h)re Liebe', which now seem charmingly innocent, reports sometimes came from there, showing people in gas masks and latex suits hitting each other and crawling on all fours to the pounding 'Umpf! Umpf! Umpf!'. From the perspective of West German provinces, this appeared disturbingly dangerous yet fascinatingly cosmopolitan at the time. And I remember wondering if these latex people occasionally stepped outside for a soda and, aside from hitting and crawling, perhaps secretly had building savings contracts.

The brand J.F. Schwarzlose Berlin and its products - and especially this one: Leder 6 / Fetisch - play with the fascination of 'Berlin', the only world city that Germany has, which is so poor yet so sexy. One expects unusual, rough, uncompromising scents that either excite or completely repel, because: dit is Berlin, right? And then comes a fragrance that somehow is not different at all - and even less polarizing. Instead, it is surprisingly unscandalous and disappointingly not KitKatClub at all, but rather a lot of Wilmersdorfer Straße (for those unfamiliar with Berlin: a thoroughly mediocre pedestrian zone in Charlottenburg): very average, very little exciting, almost offensively normal - and somehow more like soda and building savings contracts than full-body latex to the pounding 'Umpf! Umpf! Umpf!'.

It has leather, yes - but who doesn't have that today? The same goes for styrax and incense. Only the milk seems capable of contributing a surprising momentum, but what it probably means by 'milk' is hardly more than a chord of vanilla - and overall, Leder 6 / Fetisch is quite close to gourmand in many respects. The saffron adds a lively bitterness, and the mentioned vanilla milk chord runs like a fine yet dominant thread through its resinous, burnt base note. All of this is nicely and high-quality made and completely wearable - and that might be what some find sobering about this perfume, which smells much more like vanilla-scented candles from Charlottenburg than like experimental techno and dirty niche porn from Mitte. But the label promises 'KitKatClub', and sometimes that is enough.

Conclusion: a sheep in wolf's clothing. But a very sweet one.

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