Collection Orientale - Noble Leather Yves Saint Laurent 2013

Empty bottles, men, and barrels were everywhere. Although the men were rather the opposite of empty. It smelled terrible of leather, alcohol, stale smoke, and other reminiscences of a night spent partying. Wolle and his rockers were celebrating his successful roadshow regarding his candidacy for mayor of Herne. Last night, victory was expected. How did it come to this?

Flashback:
With the help of his lawyer Cravache and the bald millionaire Bastian, Wolle founded his own party, aiming for comprehensive alcohol supply. Wolle noticed that schools only offered drinks like milk and the like. Worse still: various restaurants didn’t sell beer. So he felt compelled to act and founded the BRU, the Beer Belly Rocker Union. With catchy slogans like “Beer even before four,” “No power to drugs except beer,” and “Wolle, you flamenco dancer,” they laid the foundation for the Beer matter movement and thus also won the hearts of the people of Herne. They expected from Wolle a disruptive politics, a breakthrough into new times.

For this reason, the sitting mayor Salomon Sucher, known to everyone simply as Schatz or Schatzischmatzi, had to dig deep into his repertoire (hahaha, I’m so funny...) and found a fragrance with which he wanted to counter Wolle: YSL - Noble Leather. This fragrance opened with the often-smelled leather plus a fruity touch. Here, it was not raspberry but dried fruits, reminiscent of Charriol - Royal Leather. However, the saffron is subdued; unlike the reference work, it remains very sweet and minimally fruity. The leather remains dignified, rather creamy smelling than really smelling like leather. Perhaps it is appropriately a high-gloss leather for YSL.

With this scent, Sucher felt equipped. High-gloss, not too wild and fruity, he found that fitting yet still attention-seeking. So he wandered from event to event and delivered his speeches. But everywhere, his scent was compared to the Ombre Leathers and Tuscan Leathers of this world. So was his politics. Nothing stood out these days.
Thus, Salomon Sucher gradually became more of a sweet-talker in his quest for votes. Or was it the fragrance? It now offered more room for vanilla, becoming sweet.

Wolle, on the other hand, traveled from corner pub to corner pub, often falling drunkenly from the podium or being brought home in a beer cart or wheelbarrow, often pulled through the crowd. The people of Herne liked that; Wolle was one of them, Wolle stood for the local color of the Ruhr area.
When Schatz Sucher then also came up with the idea of the pubs, it was too late. His scent had faded or was just a sweet-creamy leftover potpourri, and there were no more listeners. Slowly, it dawned on Salomon. The triumvirate of Wolle, the devil-dancing lawyer, and Master Clean from the region would defeat him.

Present:
“Wolle!”
“W-w-what?”
“Wolle, look at the clock, we’re late for the election!”
Wolle looked at his watch with the yellow sponge on it.
“W-w-what’s the big deal..,” Wolle mumbled drunkenly.
“We were well in the lead, and even anti-alcoholics like our lawyer C. Ravache wanted to vote for us.”
“He’s lying on the bathroom tiles; must have had something else too much...”
“Most of our supporters will go to vote despite our premature revelry yesterday.”
“Your words in Ceres’ ear, Wolle.”

And so it happened as it had to: Wolle and his team lost the election by a landslide because almost everyone in Herne had gotten so drunk in anticipation of victory that simply no one went to vote. No one? Well, a trickster from Herne-Crange did, but otherwise only S. Sucher and his small base.

Noble Leather was already no innovation at the time of its release. Nevertheless, it offered a wearable leather fragrance for anyone who doesn’t like leather in the sense of Tuscan Leather but still wants to smell that way. Today, it is one of many, as over the years fragrances like Ombre Leather have emerged, which can easily be classified in the same category and are significantly more popular. Thus, Noble Leather has been caught up and now blends into the masses. Unfortunately, it is also not as good as the reference fragrance I mentioned from Charriol. Although saffron becomes more prominent after hours, much has happened by then. Noble Leather is therefore not bad but, in my eyes, just one of many.