Urban Leather L'Ateliero 2021

If you look at my collection, you'll quickly see that leather scents are not necessarily one of my favorite fragrance families. No, I do not like to smell like a shoe store or a car equipped with leather seats from the inside. Scents that purely wield the leather club are not my world. Dark Rebel by John Varvatos I was allowed to call my own for a while, however this scent was so special that I liked it but never found the right way to smell like a pub in the 90s, back when people still smoked inside.
And now L'Ateliero comes along with Urban Leather. First I became aware of L 'Ateliero through the podcast "Perfume the podcast" (a clear listening recommendation for all fragrance fanatics / inside), got me here in the souk a sample of irresistible Man and thanks to a test set I now come to enjoy the entire line and thus, among other things, this leather scent. Unlike other leather candidates, Urban Leather is wearable. It is tart, masculine and spicy at times even fruity. It definitely smells like leather, but without the shoe factory association. As soon as I spray it on, there is a fresh, tart note (do I detect grapefruit in the opening?) and a spiciness that lasts throughout. Shortly after the first impression, a fruity, berry note unfolds behind the leather. The scent thus becomes a red-fruity, spicy leather combination. However, it always remains masculine and tart. At the point where many other scents drift into a sweet swamp, Urban Leather remains spicy almost smoky. So even as it progresses, the herbs play the main role alongside the leather. If my nose doesn't deceive me, I can hear thyme, among other things. The entire fragrance is warm at times hot and thus here and there almost the association of desert air arise. In the drydown, you delicately perceive the woody, slightly creamy sandalwood base. Urban Leather is more than urban to me. It is Indian Jones in blue jeans, cowboy in a suit, a hard rock band on the radio, it is a fragrance that is spicy and distinctive and yet suitable for everyday use - if you like leather - definite test recommendation, if you associate leather scents with shoe store then also - vllt. it is then the key to a new (leather) world