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The Idea of Leather
It doesn't smell like straight up leather, but rather like... the idea of leather, if that makes any sense? The type of scent that's undeniably perfumey, but wears that quality proudly, like a statement. Pretty much what imagined rich people who can afford to own horses would smell like when I was a child.
Initial cloud easily fills the whole room. It's pretty airy, vaguely spicy and almost herbal from far away, but becomes distinctly leathery once you're around an arm's length away from the wearer. Takes about ~2 hours to settle in their immediate vicinity, and another ~2,5 to completely settle on skin. Lasts long into the evening afterwards.
Leather is the centerpiece here from start to finish. Perfectly balanced (well, according to my personal tastes). Neither too pungent and rubbery, nor overwhelmingly fuzzy and suede-like. Cozy, spicy, faintly woody and clean.
There's a calm sweetness floating just above it – as if a beautiful woman just playfully kissed my cheek and the faint trail of her perfume still lingers in my immediate vicinity.
It's straightforward, confident and voluminous. And once it starts drying down – the notes fade away together, slowly and gently, as if I'm falling asleep to a monotone hum of the taxi car driving me home through the dimly lit city streets.
I had to retest it three times because I kept getting lulled by the scent and forgetting to write things down. If it only happened once, I could chalk it off to just being too tired. But thrice? I'm starting to get suspicious that I just really enjoy this experience.
Hmm. I may need to wear it again, just to make sure. Just for good measure, you know. Just to be objective. Yeah? Yeah.
Initial cloud easily fills the whole room. It's pretty airy, vaguely spicy and almost herbal from far away, but becomes distinctly leathery once you're around an arm's length away from the wearer. Takes about ~2 hours to settle in their immediate vicinity, and another ~2,5 to completely settle on skin. Lasts long into the evening afterwards.
Leather is the centerpiece here from start to finish. Perfectly balanced (well, according to my personal tastes). Neither too pungent and rubbery, nor overwhelmingly fuzzy and suede-like. Cozy, spicy, faintly woody and clean.
There's a calm sweetness floating just above it – as if a beautiful woman just playfully kissed my cheek and the faint trail of her perfume still lingers in my immediate vicinity.
It's straightforward, confident and voluminous. And once it starts drying down – the notes fade away together, slowly and gently, as if I'm falling asleep to a monotone hum of the taxi car driving me home through the dimly lit city streets.
I had to retest it three times because I kept getting lulled by the scent and forgetting to write things down. If it only happened once, I could chalk it off to just being too tired. But thrice? I'm starting to get suspicious that I just really enjoy this experience.
Hmm. I may need to wear it again, just to make sure. Just for good measure, you know. Just to be objective. Yeah? Yeah.
The filler tropical beach episode of every anime ever
Very sweet. Creamy, like coconut milk. Salty and a little aquatic, but very... uniformly so, as if the salt is completely dissolved in the milky liquid. Resinous – in a slick buttery way rather than gooey. Floral. Very yellow.
Leaves a thick lasting trail, but needs a fair bit of time to engulf the larger space in your immediate vicinity if you sit still. The type of scent that's too heavy for its own good.
Feels like eating desserts at a seashore café. The idea of sitting on a terrace outside sounds genius until the wind rises and suddenly your exorbitantly priced piece of sponge cake with wilting berries tastes like sand and sea water.
Falls into a category of super sweet and heavy summery perfumes that are meant to invoke a "tropical vacation" feeling in the wearer. Welp, at least it doesn't smell like sunscreen...
Takes about ~3 hours to dry down to the base. During those 3 hours makes me feel weirdly uncomfortable. Like I'm an unspecified anime girl in a filler beach episode. Washed ashore at a picturesque tropical island that has a single abandoned hut in it full of nothing but hundreds of cutesy skimpy bikinis to choose from.
It's hard to put the feeling into words, but while it smells pretty good, there's something... ingenuine about it. As if the composition is saying "look at me, everything about me exists for your titillation". I personally don't find that feeling in any way enjoyable.
The drydown is mostly gourmand. Powdery in an "old crumbly merengue" way. It lingers for a few more hours, but at that point it's a skinscent that I can easily ignore by keeping my arms away from my face.
Objectively – it's decent. But personally? I'm very much not its target audience.
Leaves a thick lasting trail, but needs a fair bit of time to engulf the larger space in your immediate vicinity if you sit still. The type of scent that's too heavy for its own good.
Feels like eating desserts at a seashore café. The idea of sitting on a terrace outside sounds genius until the wind rises and suddenly your exorbitantly priced piece of sponge cake with wilting berries tastes like sand and sea water.
Falls into a category of super sweet and heavy summery perfumes that are meant to invoke a "tropical vacation" feeling in the wearer. Welp, at least it doesn't smell like sunscreen...
Takes about ~3 hours to dry down to the base. During those 3 hours makes me feel weirdly uncomfortable. Like I'm an unspecified anime girl in a filler beach episode. Washed ashore at a picturesque tropical island that has a single abandoned hut in it full of nothing but hundreds of cutesy skimpy bikinis to choose from.
It's hard to put the feeling into words, but while it smells pretty good, there's something... ingenuine about it. As if the composition is saying "look at me, everything about me exists for your titillation". I personally don't find that feeling in any way enjoyable.
The drydown is mostly gourmand. Powdery in an "old crumbly merengue" way. It lingers for a few more hours, but at that point it's a skinscent that I can easily ignore by keeping my arms away from my face.
Objectively – it's decent. But personally? I'm very much not its target audience.
Fuzzy peach skin! It's a shame that I'm allergic to it.
A very sweet gourmand fragrance with a hefty dose of honeyed peach in it. Heady white florals. Fig on the sidelines. Something lovably herbal too (davana?), but it's unfortunately rather weak and brief.
But peach is the obvious star of the show that steals your attention the moment you relax and stop trying to sniff out each separate detail.
My partner got a sneezing fit as soon as I sprayed it. I was laughing at him at first, but then started sneezing myself right after. Not great. The whole room soon became peachy and sweet, while the air in my immediate vicinity became bitter. For the first hour I could taste this fragrance on my tongue if I made a mistake of breathing it in through my mouth. The scent may be different, but bitter chemical taste was the same one would feel if they sprayed a lot of air freshener in a tiny enclosed space.
It settled closer to me in about ~1,5 hours, and finally became easy to breathe in. At that point – still a very sweet composition with an emphasis on peach. There was something powdery deep within it, which made me feel almost as if I was petting the fuzzy peach skin. Pretty neat if you like that feeling, but me personally? I hate that texture, it always makes me itchy.
In ~1,5 hours peach fizzled out and left just the sweet vanilla base on my skin. Another ~2,5 hours later vanilla faded away too. Eh. It's whatever.
I tested it the next day after the original
Scandal while the memory was still fresh, so if I had to base my score on that comparison – this one would easily win. It was both more balanced and much more interesting.
But in general, compared to all other fragrances of this kind that exist? If someone asked me for recommendations of peachy/gourmand perfumes, this one wouldn't even get a honorary mention.
But peach is the obvious star of the show that steals your attention the moment you relax and stop trying to sniff out each separate detail.
My partner got a sneezing fit as soon as I sprayed it. I was laughing at him at first, but then started sneezing myself right after. Not great. The whole room soon became peachy and sweet, while the air in my immediate vicinity became bitter. For the first hour I could taste this fragrance on my tongue if I made a mistake of breathing it in through my mouth. The scent may be different, but bitter chemical taste was the same one would feel if they sprayed a lot of air freshener in a tiny enclosed space.
It settled closer to me in about ~1,5 hours, and finally became easy to breathe in. At that point – still a very sweet composition with an emphasis on peach. There was something powdery deep within it, which made me feel almost as if I was petting the fuzzy peach skin. Pretty neat if you like that feeling, but me personally? I hate that texture, it always makes me itchy.
In ~1,5 hours peach fizzled out and left just the sweet vanilla base on my skin. Another ~2,5 hours later vanilla faded away too. Eh. It's whatever.
I tested it the next day after the original

But in general, compared to all other fragrances of this kind that exist? If someone asked me for recommendations of peachy/gourmand perfumes, this one wouldn't even get a honorary mention.
It's perhaps a bit corporate, but it's also a job that you love
It's a perfume. Which sounds like an obvious statement, but it's also the best description I have for it. It smells like a perfume. That usually isn't a compliment, but here – it works. It's smells perfumey, and it smells expensive, and it smells good. It doesn't try to hide its nature. If nothing else – I respect that! But also like it a lot in general.
Initial cloud fills the whole room, but it's very airy and easy to breathe in. Green, woody, herbal – but in a reserved and gentle way. There's a prominent bitter grapefruit note, but the composition overall doesn't feel citrusy – just fresh. Sage and vetiver. I could smell it all day.
It takes around ~1,5 hours to settle on skin. I don't feel any iris – just a faint cozy spiciness and a lot of vetiver. In the meantime, grapefruit fades.
It's not very memorable, but it's a nice and calm scent. Has an "everything is under control" vibe to it. Great for the office. I wonder if that's why it's designed to look like a bottle of glue? I can't decide if I like it or hate it, but I can't stop staring at it.
It lasts for another ~5 hours from there, perhaps a bit more. For the majority of that time it remains itself, just slowly gets fainter. Once it's gone, leaves behind a gentle ambery aftertaste.
I can see why some people may think it's cold, soulless and corporate, but I personally found it very understanding, supportive and warm.
Initial cloud fills the whole room, but it's very airy and easy to breathe in. Green, woody, herbal – but in a reserved and gentle way. There's a prominent bitter grapefruit note, but the composition overall doesn't feel citrusy – just fresh. Sage and vetiver. I could smell it all day.
It takes around ~1,5 hours to settle on skin. I don't feel any iris – just a faint cozy spiciness and a lot of vetiver. In the meantime, grapefruit fades.
It's not very memorable, but it's a nice and calm scent. Has an "everything is under control" vibe to it. Great for the office. I wonder if that's why it's designed to look like a bottle of glue? I can't decide if I like it or hate it, but I can't stop staring at it.
It lasts for another ~5 hours from there, perhaps a bit more. For the majority of that time it remains itself, just slowly gets fainter. Once it's gone, leaves behind a gentle ambery aftertaste.
I can see why some people may think it's cold, soulless and corporate, but I personally found it very understanding, supportive and warm.
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Fluffy bedsheets and bicycle tires
The initial cloud smells the way a cottage cheese bar tastes. Is it even a thing outside of post-Soviet countries? It's basically curd cheese blended with sugar, and usually covered in chocolate. It's a rather gentle sweet flavor with a peculiar freshness to it. Creamy, but with a somewhat crumbly texture. Ugh, now I want one. Or five. Or ten, if they weren't so expensive nowadays...
That cloud fades pretty quickly and leaves behind a clean powdery scent with pretty realistic iris (the pale lilac kind whose petals become almost white closer to the stem) and some vague bits of citrus (no idea what kind, but it's there). Childhood bedsheets washed with a weird kind of fabric softener that they don't make anymore. Fluffy, neat.
This scent is visible in the wearer's immediate vicinity, doesn't leave a lasting trail, dissipates less than an arm's length away. It's cozy and soft and makes me want to get closer. And when I sniff it up close, there is something else – a secret waiting to be discovered. Want to try and guess it?
Well, it's bicycle tires.
I don't know what exactly mixes this way or why, but some part of this composition smells like bicycle tires to me. At first I thought that something was wrong with my nose, but when my partner sniffed me, he said the same thing unprompted. So there's that. It's not unpleasant, just... weird. Kind of fun. Nostalgic!
Still, weird. Sun-baked. Rubbery. That particular scent slowly gets stronger and stronger during the first ~30 minutes, then starts to fade. Soon follows the iris. What's left settles on skin after the first ~1,5 hours, and in another hour dries down to the base. Clean, soft, slightly fuzzy. Musky, faintly sweet. At this point – more creamy than powdery. In ~2 more hours it fades entirely.
Simplistic, but memorable and fascinating. I'm happy I've tried it, even if I will not wear it again.
That cloud fades pretty quickly and leaves behind a clean powdery scent with pretty realistic iris (the pale lilac kind whose petals become almost white closer to the stem) and some vague bits of citrus (no idea what kind, but it's there). Childhood bedsheets washed with a weird kind of fabric softener that they don't make anymore. Fluffy, neat.
This scent is visible in the wearer's immediate vicinity, doesn't leave a lasting trail, dissipates less than an arm's length away. It's cozy and soft and makes me want to get closer. And when I sniff it up close, there is something else – a secret waiting to be discovered. Want to try and guess it?
Well, it's bicycle tires.
I don't know what exactly mixes this way or why, but some part of this composition smells like bicycle tires to me. At first I thought that something was wrong with my nose, but when my partner sniffed me, he said the same thing unprompted. So there's that. It's not unpleasant, just... weird. Kind of fun. Nostalgic!
Still, weird. Sun-baked. Rubbery. That particular scent slowly gets stronger and stronger during the first ~30 minutes, then starts to fade. Soon follows the iris. What's left settles on skin after the first ~1,5 hours, and in another hour dries down to the base. Clean, soft, slightly fuzzy. Musky, faintly sweet. At this point – more creamy than powdery. In ~2 more hours it fades entirely.
Simplistic, but memorable and fascinating. I'm happy I've tried it, even if I will not wear it again.
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