Top Notes 
Mandarin orange
Aldehydes
Heart Notes 
Everlasting flower
White musk
Cardamom
Patchouli
Base Notes 
Amber
Vanilla
Heliotrope
05/30/2025
ClaireV
731 Reviews
ClaireV
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Tuscan Leather lite
It never fails to surprise me just how many fragrances out there smell like Tuscan Leather, e.g., Oud Saphir (Atelier Cologne), Byredo’s Black Saffron, and countless others. Tajibni attar is the latest mimic I’ve smelled. Nothing in the notes really suggests that it should smell like Tuscan Leather. And yet it does.
Tajibni opens with the flat oily aroma of pressed mandarin peel - not fresh or sparkling, but dense and compacted. The meat and bones of the Tuscan Leather component comes up behind the oily citrus and soon it is pretty much all I can smell. To me, what all these Tuscan Leather smell-alikes have in common is a powerfully musky suede aroma built from the sawdust lining the ground of an indoor horse-riding arena.
I like this smell a lot – it reminds me of happy moments bouncing around a ring on a fat pony – but it is still more a ‘smell’ than a complex personal fragrance. That’s the way I feel about Tuscan Leather, and therefore, in the interest of fairness, it is also how I feel about its smell-alikes. Tajibni is a very likeable suede fragrance, but at approximately $150 for half a tola (six milliliters, give or take), it is impossible to recommend buying this over a bottle of the Tom Ford. If you can find it for cheaper, then it would be a way for the Tuscan Leather lover to get their fix in attar form.
Tajibni opens with the flat oily aroma of pressed mandarin peel - not fresh or sparkling, but dense and compacted. The meat and bones of the Tuscan Leather component comes up behind the oily citrus and soon it is pretty much all I can smell. To me, what all these Tuscan Leather smell-alikes have in common is a powerfully musky suede aroma built from the sawdust lining the ground of an indoor horse-riding arena.
I like this smell a lot – it reminds me of happy moments bouncing around a ring on a fat pony – but it is still more a ‘smell’ than a complex personal fragrance. That’s the way I feel about Tuscan Leather, and therefore, in the interest of fairness, it is also how I feel about its smell-alikes. Tajibni is a very likeable suede fragrance, but at approximately $150 for half a tola (six milliliters, give or take), it is impossible to recommend buying this over a bottle of the Tom Ford. If you can find it for cheaper, then it would be a way for the Tuscan Leather lover to get their fix in attar form.
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