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Black Label

Leather Monotheme 2013

7.4 / 10 49 Ratings

A perfume by Monotheme for women and men, released in 2013. The scent is leathery-spicy. It was last marketed by Mavive.
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Main accords

Leathery

Spicy

Smoky

Woody

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Spanish saffron

Frankincense

Heart Notes

Cedarwood

Gourmand notes

Floral notes

Base Notes

French labdanum

Morocco leather

Precious woods

Ratings

Scent

7.449 Ratings

Longevity

7.239 Ratings

Sillage

6.438 Ratings

Bottle

6.743 Ratings

Submitted by Dolby · last update on 08/21/2024.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection Black Label.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Tuscan Leather Eau de Parfum

La Yuqawam pour Homme

Leather Oudh

Aoud Leather

Citizen Queen

Golden Boy

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/08/2018

7.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Smora
155 Reviews

Smora

Helpful Review 3

Good Job in Italy

A very solid fragrance for a bargain price. Still it has some pronounced synthetic edge. A structural carbon copy of Tuscan Leather, and Byredo - Black Saffron and Rasasi - La Yuqawam as well.
Introduction full of sweet berry fruits, spices, saffron and leather, on the base of pale resins and unidentified woods.
Great purchase for people who want to avoid paying niche prices. A good job in Italy.

Rating: 7.5/10

02/24/2015

ColinM
516 Reviews

ColinM

Helpful Review 4

Inexpensive & decent contemporary leather

This fragrance is apparently known for being one of the nicest and more faithful clones of Tuscan Leather, and if you want to skip my boring review, heres my opinion on that: it is. It's almost identical to Tuscan Leather, pretty much as Golden Boy by Dueto, but at a far cheaper price, which makes it more appealing to me. Monotheme Leather sells here in Italy for the quite unbelievable price tag of some 15-16 EUR for 100 ml. And the bottle & packaging are even quite nice to be honest. Well, anyway: the same exact suederal-safraleine polished and clean leather note you smell in so many contemporary leather scents, smoky and urban, well sweetened by fruity hints providing a pleasant, warm and velvety feel, on discreet woods and warm, sweet-dusty resins. Pretty much all, for hours. The fact that it smells undoubtedly similar to Tuscan Leather does not mean obviously that this is a masterpiece scent they stupidly sell off at ridicolously low prices; on the contrary, rather it's a (unnecessary, in my opinion) evidence of how Tuscan Leather is crazily overpriced. Monotheme Leather kindly shows you how something like Tuscan Leather can be produced and sold at a (literal) fraction of the price. Projection and persistence are totally compelling, it lasts for hours and projects just sharp and clear. On the drydown it gets drier and darker, more woody and austere, with just a bit less sweetness and warmth. Now, obviously there is some differences with Tuscan Leather if you are still interested int that comparison: I said they are almost identical, but Monotheme Leather smells just a bit more synthetic, less rich and less smoky than Ford's, and is also a bit more linear overall. But these details and differences wouldn't really justify the enormous price gap for me: unless you're really obsessed with Tom Ford, just take this Monotheme Leather and you'll be happy with a totally decent, classy, well-made and solid contemporary leather fragrance (or Dueto's Golden Boy if you feel ashamed in buying ultra-cheap scents). At this surreal price, totally worthy the blind buy for me, even just as an easy-going office scent. Kudos to Mavive for producing such a decent scent at a totally humble and honest price.

7-7,5/10

05/07/2020

8Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Chizza
362 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 9

Leather Goods from Marrakech

During my journey through the leather scents of this world, I also became aware of Black Label - Leather. This one is rather affordable in terms of price, and the fragrance pyramid suggests that not only high-quality materials have been used. But that doesn't matter, because the scent itself and its development are impressive.

It starts directly with leather, which is finely spiced by saffron but does not cross the line towards Tuscan Leather. So I breathed a sigh of relief, no further clone. This is truly intensely scented leather, not Gucci bag leather but leather goods from the bazaar. The incense underpins this intense fragrance. I can easily imagine the base note of Moroccan leather; walking through the Medina over a marketplace, the goods on display are presented accordingly, and in the end, you walk away with a fine piece of leather. Not so delicately crafted but solid and beautiful.

This is how Black Label - Leather smells to me. At the beginning, it is less fruity than the well-known big names, and in the middle, it doesn't get as much love as those big names but remains stable. It most reminds me of Godolphin from the house of PdM. Who knows, maybe the floral notes in the fragrance pyramid refer to iris, jasmine, and rose.

The perfume performs quite well for its price range, breathtakingly so, and I would recommend purchasing it if you appreciate leather. Unfortunately, it seems the scent has been discontinued, as it is no longer listed on Mavive's homepage.
Such a shame, so it seems I have to console myself with the other leather scents, which unfortunately cost more than 20 euros.

06/24/2018

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 25

Moroccan Leather

Aha. Such a designation of origin (see pyramid) I would dismiss as a joke if I hadn't encountered such leather goods and their strong scent live and on-site in 1991. As a member of the regular crew of a well-known, and to my knowledge, the only sailing ship of the Federal Navy, I had shore leave in Agadir and got to experience the “possessive liveliness” of the residents of a Maghreb port city while dressed in a snow-white summer sailor's uniform.

Anyone who walked around there at that time (since 1995, the authorities are said to exert a certain restraining influence) dressed like that and thus shone like a lonely soldier-plus-board-surcharge-and-foreign-allowance lighthouse in the bright sunlight, was engaged in more than just the generally common tourist defense against... uh... rather insistently presented sales offers regarding, for example, Moroccan leather goods. It was exhausting.

That this leather scent is now supposed to be typically Moroccan and that it may not crawl through the nozzle in a similar form elsewhere can be gently doubted. Nevertheless, it should be clear what is meant by that. In this regard, Leather simply delivers superbly, although undoubtedly less “Moroccan” than one might expect. The secretive and vague scent notes regarding some of the other components do not need to be followed too intensely, as after one or two hours of relatively varied opening work, we are dealing with a straightforward, strong leather scent.

“Relatively varied opening work” specifically means: saffron may be fine, there is something dusty, I can't detect any smoke. I imagine a hint of fruit and would have guessed mandarin, something mild in any case. Along with a portion of sweetness from the Campino fruit candy corner, which lasts for a good hour. But almost immediately after application, a leather note is significantly involved, which is characteristically closer to the Memo-Leather series than to the Tuscan-Leather style. Towards the end of the second hour, the scent darkens. A hint of vanilla seems to round it off, so restrained that one could call the deployment perfect.

From the third hour onward, Leather finally offers straightforward, darkened throat lozenge leather, which becomes even stronger and tarrier over time. Of course, without ever sliding into the coarse, as the balsamic notes are present (although labdanum is not independently detectable for me) and, if you like, that diffuse something that is called “noble woods,” which I would have described as “grassy notes” - Irish Leather sends its regards. A tiny bit of fruit may be involved. Direct and excellent. Longevity easily lasts until the evening.

All of this comes at a very fair price, which justifies a rating bonus.

Conclusion: Nothing new, original, or even spectacular. But at this price, this monotheme should not remain untested by any leather scent enthusiast.

I thank Ergoproxy for the sample.