Gold Leather Atelier Cologne (2013)

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Gold Leather is a popular perfume by Atelier Cologne for women and men and was released in 2013. The scent is leathery-spicy. It is being marketed by L'Oréal.

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Perfumer

Jérôme Epinette

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Italian bergamot, Bitter orange, Indian saffron, Jamaican rum
Heart Notes	Plum, Indian davana, Californian eucalyptus
Base Notes	Indian gaiac wood, Texas cedar, Leather, Oud

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Scent

7.5 (160 Ratings)

Longevity

7.7 (114 Ratings)

Sillage

7.0 (118 Ratings)

Bottle

7.5 (115 Ratings)

Submitted by ChapeauClack, last update on 07.03.2020.

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Tar 6 years ago

„Drunk and dark”

First and very important: it is ridiculous, that people who want to enjoy this wondrously extraordinary fragrance, have to pay double price because of the golden...

Silverfire 6 years ago

„Classy Fail”

Goes on like champagne, a fruit-infused wine, quite elegant. The first five minutes are wonderful. Then it becomes storax and pepper, which is depressing, but that phase...

02/06/2020

8.5
Scent 8
Longevity 8
Sillage 6
Bottle

Pollita
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Pollita

Top Review 16

In the saddlery

I'm not an avowed leather fan. Some fragrances with leather are dreamily delicate, some are just - yuck! Oud? Anyway, no. I usually think of Stinky first. This one surprised me positively, though. Maybe it's the rum? Yeah, I love the smell of liquor. They probably always make me a little tipsy and I get headaches. I like that
Plus the plum. She's got something. Brings in a pleasant sweetness next to the rum. Oud always remains delicately in the background and does not give rise to associations of stable mucking. That's good
I had two horses. Therefore I know all too well how to clean out stables and pick up horse droppings. Whenever I smell scents with too much oud, this picture of the horse stable automatically comes up. But maybe it is also because of the horses that I find leather scents actually quite fine. Because the smell of a saddlery or a new bridle is absolutely not unpleasant. On the contrary. This can even have something pleasantly cuddly, almost homey.

At Gold Leather I'm in the saddlery and not in the stable, drinking a plum brandy. The saffron, which is also not always my friend, fortunately does not get on my nerves here either. Saffron does not fit into every meal for me either, but sometimes I like it very much. It's the same with Gold Leather,

This one, too, I see less in me than in a gentleman. Gladly with saddle and with horse, but he has to muck out by himself :))))))

14 Replies

07/02/2019

8.5
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 6
Bottle

Floyd
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Floyd

Very helpful Review 10

Delikatessen - A stage play with levitation, teleportation, alcohol, fruit, oud & leather

First elevator:
The stage is stone and empty. White, bright light illuminates the scenery, in the middle of which bubbles from a golden bottle, wrapped in red leather, high-percentage rum, which bittersweetly befuddles the audience as if it wanted to make them drunk, intoxicate their senses, make them believe that the room is turning. Maybe he does, the stage stays silent. A dozen oriental spice merchants in yellow tunics serve rum and cola, while the first shades of red and amber mingle with the now dimmed lighting.
Second lift:
After about ten minutes, Davana, dressed in yellow and white, appears on the hub podium in the middle of the stage, bathed in dark blue light. Sitting on damp earth she now becomes the pivot of the piece, she begins to spin slow-motion threads of eucalyptus, which grow through the air into the room, giving birth to plums, which they float in slowly pulsating drops of rum and let burst in uneven intervals in gentle spray mists, moistening the wooden floor in the hall, allowing balsamic-sweet, earthy-woody, slightly smoky haze to rise and from then on to sway around the room. Hardly noticeably the stage lighting has shifted into deep orange-golden amber.
Third elevator:
At first, tiny leather particles, barely perceptible to the audience, float over invisible teleportation mechanisms towards the centre of the stage, accelerating as they approach the protagonist, they are redirected to the audience by her calmly extended hands and more and more joined together. The light leather softly covers the seats, armrests, legs, arms and finally the bodies of those present, breathing sweetly like a veil, softly creaking in bitter oud. For hours, Davana changles the scenery with the notes of her heart, but she makes the threads thinner, the drops smaller, the fog lighter, before it slowly disappears into the stage floor after about 5-6 hours (depending on the temperature and size of the hall and the audience). Now a fade-out of several hours begins, in which the woods dry slowly, the fruits wither into light sweetness, tempered by the spicy bitter Oud, which performs a slow bone dance in the still damp earth of the stage center, while the light of the remaining spots goes out to it.

A stage play of the Moderat-Sillage-Ensemble for all seasons. Noble, warm, mysterious, multi-layered.

(With thanks to Yukiko who sent me this fragrance in exchange)

5 Replies

03/08/2014

3
Scent 7.5
Longevity

Silverfire
130 Reviews

Silverfire

Helpful Review 6

Classy Fail

Goes on like champagne, a fruit-infused wine, quite elegant. The first five minutes are wonderful. Then it becomes storax and pepper, which is depressing, but that phase fades as the champagne returns to create this elegant, laid-back, vaguely peppery, refined, distantly fruity, champagne smell, that screams class and masculine opulence. This lasts only an hour, and then the peppery/storax combo drowns out the elegance. Sigh. I know part of this is me because my skin amps pepper and spice like nobody’s business, so it may work for those whose skin doesn’t behave that way. When it’s storax and pepper, it’s Liz Zorn’s Journeyman all over again.

Interestingly, by four hours in, the storax/pepper combo has receded and it smells again like it did in the beginning, albeit as a skin scent. This, I like. I can see girls liking this on a guy, too. Heat turns it slightly sweet/vanilla and makes it slightly aromatic. By hour 12, it's still there, but as a light, gentlemanly scent, like the final wisps of cigar smoke.

This might work for some men, but it did not work for me; nevertheless, it's a classy scent.

10/23/2013

9
Scent 7.5
Longevity 7.5
Sillage 2.5
Bottle

Tar
261 Reviews

Tar

Helpful Review 5

Drunk and dark

First and very important: it is ridiculous, that people who want to enjoy this wondrously extraordinary fragrance, have to pay double price because of the golden bottle. C'mon, the juice is so excellent, that people would buy it even in a gray noname flask!

Vinasse, drunken, dark colored fruits - the beginning is a really strong fruit oil with so much alcohol, that I felt dizzy after first sniff. It is not the usual alcoholic chugging of the beginning, it stays for hours.
Top and heart notes together gives a grape-plum mixture, I have to tell, that I never detected so clearly plum note in a perfume. I am amazed. Eucalyptus is not playing hardball, only supporting behind the scenes, so you almost feel the austere peel of plum in your mouth, not only the sweetness of it.

Oud plays also supportive role, I got accustomed to sharp, strong, smoky oud, but in GOLD LEATHER it gives only the smooth darkness to the background. Later on the fragrances grows to be a creamy, mild leather, only one piece residual plum on the top, laid on a woodden bench in a timber house next to a dark forest, after sunset, in the winter. So the feeling is great.

GOLD LEATHER - not easy to wear. I would not blow it every day, but I would go to the shelf and sniff it almost every hour. It is a perfect fragrance for a pair for a candlelit dinner téte-á-téte.
Congratulation, Mr. Epinette! You created something unbelievable - again.