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Leather at its best
I finally made a trip to that one famed perfume store to test at last that one leather fragrance that’s been sitting on your watch list for months. And the store owner says “Oh you want leather? THIS over here is LEATHER. Extrait de parfum.”.
The opening was show-stoppingly intense yet not repulsive, and the dry-down is strangely addictive - to the point of my near-disregard for the high price tag and its seeming lack of versatility. It is that brand new black car seat scent, somewhat pungent with a hint of burnt rubber. This is a true leather deity, wrapped in delicious dried fruits, whisky and rum, without any apparent sweetness to my nose. This exquisite leather note is really making a statement here, it takes over the room you’re in, while never crossing that boundary where it becomes nauseating or choking. During the dry-down, subtle notes of florals and eventually wood (sandalwood primarily) make their modest appearance. The longevity is out of this world - I could still smell this artful leather accord on my wrist, nearly 24h since application.
In trying to describe this perfume, my mind was going for ‘bohemian’ at first, so I was a tad surprised when I read that the creator’s inspiration for this was, in short, wealth (being driven in a new, leather-seat porsche, from Dubai airport to your golden presidential suite or something like that). A signifier of money and prestige is typically not what I personally look for in my perfumes. But the idea of the designer to use notes of dried fig, date and walnut apparently comes from it being the typical fruit eaten during Ramadan, which makes this liquid all the more interesting.
Spray more than once at your own peril.
The opening was show-stoppingly intense yet not repulsive, and the dry-down is strangely addictive - to the point of my near-disregard for the high price tag and its seeming lack of versatility. It is that brand new black car seat scent, somewhat pungent with a hint of burnt rubber. This is a true leather deity, wrapped in delicious dried fruits, whisky and rum, without any apparent sweetness to my nose. This exquisite leather note is really making a statement here, it takes over the room you’re in, while never crossing that boundary where it becomes nauseating or choking. During the dry-down, subtle notes of florals and eventually wood (sandalwood primarily) make their modest appearance. The longevity is out of this world - I could still smell this artful leather accord on my wrist, nearly 24h since application.
In trying to describe this perfume, my mind was going for ‘bohemian’ at first, so I was a tad surprised when I read that the creator’s inspiration for this was, in short, wealth (being driven in a new, leather-seat porsche, from Dubai airport to your golden presidential suite or something like that). A signifier of money and prestige is typically not what I personally look for in my perfumes. But the idea of the designer to use notes of dried fig, date and walnut apparently comes from it being the typical fruit eaten during Ramadan, which makes this liquid all the more interesting.
Spray more than once at your own peril.
Suuhl
