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It is an honour for me to evaluate this wonderful fragrance from Armani

"Privé Cuir Majesté" - the name tells me that with this intense EdP I can expect an amazing experience with royal leather.

Sprayed intuitively, it has an intense berry-like appearance, almost like the smell of a skin filled with grapes. This dense fruitiness begins to shift a little, with the implicit sweetness fading and the fragrance then revealing other notes.

Osmanthus, sensual apricot-like feature is beautifully present and apparently reaches for the baton of the fading "dried fruit" note. Slowly an exotic, light incense penetrates, as does the luxuriously heavily hidden leather. Tobacco seems to have been defined by the previous notes already composed, but also appears in an almost liquid form. The scent of the dried fruits and osmanthus is still quite fruity even five minutes after the first spraying.

I begin to discover antiseptic traces of agarwood (oud), a little moss, and the cryptic "orcanox", better known as ambroxide ("ambroxane") - this is an essential ingredient of ambergris, tends to be sweet, earthy and waxy.

So many minutes after application I still get a very fruity, meticulous leather experience, warmed by Ambrox and lightly touched by Oud (which fades in and out depending on how things develop on my skin).

All in all, I would consider this a dark cherry-incense scent than a leather scent in itself. Perhaps I was not exposed enough to the abundance of different smells that make up the art and craft of leather processing. But with the little I know as a nominal fragrance lover, Privé Cuir Majesté feels more like a highly sparkling, fragrant, oil-conditioned suede than any "rougher" leather I could imagine.

Privé Cuir Majesté has a hypnotic, dark quality of its own and has a decent sillage and durability.