07/04/2020
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Spicy juniper leather
Maison Mona di Orio was not a very familiar name to me until now. Only once I had noticed the name on the edge of a discussion. This changed abruptly when I saw that a leather scent was slumbering in their portfolio which was unknown to me until then. The ingredients were at least interesting to read. Besides leather, beaver horny, absinthe and juniper? This could be too much of a good thing and above all not something for everyone, but it could also be very successful. It has to be said that empirically I could imagine a combination of leather and juniper as well as juniper and absinthe very well.
So I wanted to appreciate him from the beginning and I still do, but not in the way I had imagined. The scent is quite linear, it doesn't change that much at its core. Basically, it's all about leather as we know it from the coarser leather belts for jeans, i.e. rather natural, and juniper, more precisely juniper oil, which is extracted from needles and berries. In contrast to similar fragrances such as Irish Leather, for example, the juniper's share is greater here and, above all, both protagonists smell more intense and real.
This is especially clear at the beginning, whereas for me the Absinthe is the first thing that influences the impression. It smells sharper the first three hours, olfactorically it's very spicy and reminds me a bit of burnt and natural leather; it's almost as if the pungent smoke would drive the scent out of the mentioned ingredient, which intensifies the impression. This can be too much here and there, as it almost goes in the direction of smoked meat and the leather looks dirtier than it actually is.
In the end, beaver horny, cardamom and opoponax don't play much of a role for me, but give Les Nombres d'Or - Cuir additional rough edges. Basically they add a bit of earthiness to the triumvirate of dominant notes, a very light sweet note with Absinthe and the extra shot of animalism, which makes the leather look more intense and less processed, although it's not at all dirty per se.
In simple terms, the present fragrance is a mixture of leather and juniper. The latter becomes more dominant over time but also easier to wear as its intensity decreases. The beginning is strongly dominated by absinthe, giving the fragrance a sharper and more original note. Without this I would have said that it smells like Irish Leather or Ambergris Showers. That's not the way I do it. To be fair, the juniper is also much stronger here than with the other two fellows and above all more genuine.
Much more does not happen then, Les Nombres d'Or - Cuir of Maison Mona di Orio is, as already mentioned, not a jumpy, constantly changing scent. At the beginning respectively relatively at the beginning, I mentioned that I appreciate the present perfume but not to the hoped extent. For anyone who likes juniper with leather and finds the other perfume too tame, too unbalanced in this respect, he could be happy here. For me, Les Nombres d'Or - Cuir is a very good fragrance. But: if you don't really like juniper with leather, then you should go further.
So I wanted to appreciate him from the beginning and I still do, but not in the way I had imagined. The scent is quite linear, it doesn't change that much at its core. Basically, it's all about leather as we know it from the coarser leather belts for jeans, i.e. rather natural, and juniper, more precisely juniper oil, which is extracted from needles and berries. In contrast to similar fragrances such as Irish Leather, for example, the juniper's share is greater here and, above all, both protagonists smell more intense and real.
This is especially clear at the beginning, whereas for me the Absinthe is the first thing that influences the impression. It smells sharper the first three hours, olfactorically it's very spicy and reminds me a bit of burnt and natural leather; it's almost as if the pungent smoke would drive the scent out of the mentioned ingredient, which intensifies the impression. This can be too much here and there, as it almost goes in the direction of smoked meat and the leather looks dirtier than it actually is.
In the end, beaver horny, cardamom and opoponax don't play much of a role for me, but give Les Nombres d'Or - Cuir additional rough edges. Basically they add a bit of earthiness to the triumvirate of dominant notes, a very light sweet note with Absinthe and the extra shot of animalism, which makes the leather look more intense and less processed, although it's not at all dirty per se.
In simple terms, the present fragrance is a mixture of leather and juniper. The latter becomes more dominant over time but also easier to wear as its intensity decreases. The beginning is strongly dominated by absinthe, giving the fragrance a sharper and more original note. Without this I would have said that it smells like Irish Leather or Ambergris Showers. That's not the way I do it. To be fair, the juniper is also much stronger here than with the other two fellows and above all more genuine.
Much more does not happen then, Les Nombres d'Or - Cuir of Maison Mona di Orio is, as already mentioned, not a jumpy, constantly changing scent. At the beginning respectively relatively at the beginning, I mentioned that I appreciate the present perfume but not to the hoped extent. For anyone who likes juniper with leather and finds the other perfume too tame, too unbalanced in this respect, he could be happy here. For me, Les Nombres d'Or - Cuir is a very good fragrance. But: if you don't really like juniper with leather, then you should go further.
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