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The Leather Grail (?)
This is the 100th comment and this in this relatively short period of time which has passed since my registration. Some people must think that I have nothing to do in Corona times or generally nothing at all. That would be incorrect, that much is revealed. To many fragrances I already have an opinion and texts or reviews to write, this has been known to me many years ago for a long time. During my student days I was a music reviewer for a niche magazine, so it's a finger exercise for me to formulate this flatly but also value-free.
Anyway, I thought about what I could comment, actually Memoir Man has been lying here for weeks and for me it fluctuates between buy now and let's wait and see.
Since some people know me for my fondness for leather scents, it should probably be one of this series and maybe one that I consider valuable. This scent here is very successful in my eyes. Not as pleasing at first sight as the raspberry-saffron story, but an incredibly beautiful and outstanding leather scent. To a certain extent, it represents a possible solution to my search for the leather scent, because it is one of the scents that will not be missing in my collection for long.
So let's start with the raspberry ;)
No, don't worry, Oro is different and that's good. If I read the comparisons to the Tuscan, they are probably based on the fact that the majority of them only knows the Tuscan as a leather scent, at least as a reference work.
In fact, Oro 1920 even starts with raspberry but here you have to differentiate. No saffron far and wide, no spicy thyme rushes to help and roasts the raspberry, so to speak. We have here fir balm, which, as the name suggests, wraps the raspberry in balsamic resins. Just before you get the feeling that it could get too sweet, the ginger intervenes and gives the sweetish fir balm a bit of spiciness and deeper expression. This opening is very delicate and well thought out, no smoke grenade but sublime leather smoking.
The exciting thing is that the raspberry naturally disappears gradually, you know it. But because we have used fir balm and not thyme, the incense does not smell as dirty as it does with roasted aromas. Of course it smells smoky but much clearer and still with this balsamic sweetness. In my opinion it also manages to keep the raspberry longer, but only very discreetly.
With this aura, Oro 1920 moves on, clearly taking the iris with it, which supports the fragrance with its own leatheriness and gives the leather a slightly earthy but elegant scent. The aura of the forest remains, but the gaze now wanders to the flowery and overgrown edge of the forest in front of it, where the May rose carefully exudes its own scent. You can imagine the intensity but you can see everything from the bird's eye view so that only a few sweet notes rise. This is enough to know that there must be a very intense fragrance down there. It is also slightly resinous; Opoponax also contributes its part. The scent becomes less noticeable here, retreats and then: then the leather scent intensifies!
Of course the leather dominates the fragrance throughout, it possesses this tart but distinct aura of its own preciousness. It is flanked by tobacco and vanilla, which give the leather a slightly creamy appearance, but thanks to tobacco it remains angular and smoky. Quite delicate and for that you have to know leather plus beeswax, the latter is audible. In the end it looks similar to vanilla but the scent is more characterizing, in the end more aromatic-footed.
What more can you say? All this takes place at a high level. No layman will be able to say, oh, but the fragrance smells quite different from the well-known representatives. But you wear the fragrance here because you like it and appreciate its class. Not because it is the most famous leather scent of the new era. I myself see the effect of Oro 1920 a bit above other leather scents, because this work is more thoughtful and profound in both the top and the middle notes. Even the ingredients seem wisely and stringently selected.
Oro 1920 is wonderful. For me, almost every handle fits, almost every detail. Yes, I think Tuscan Leather is excellent no matter how linear and predictable it is. It doesn't always have to be fancy around five corners, but that's only on the edge. Oro 1920 is slightly better in my eyes.
In this respect my statement at that time (see below) is wrong, since then I have been allowed to get to know a multitude of fragrances, many of them also repetitively, and have been able to devote myself to them in detail. Often I also read that the fragrance is too expensive. Everyone may decide that for himself and probably only leather lovers will agree with me that the fragrance is worth the price. Everything seen in relation to what other fragrances call for prices. I conclude that this is really a possible end of my leather journey and I'll stick to the name of the perfume: I'm Jason and this is my golden fleece.
Anyway, I thought about what I could comment, actually Memoir Man has been lying here for weeks and for me it fluctuates between buy now and let's wait and see.
Since some people know me for my fondness for leather scents, it should probably be one of this series and maybe one that I consider valuable. This scent here is very successful in my eyes. Not as pleasing at first sight as the raspberry-saffron story, but an incredibly beautiful and outstanding leather scent. To a certain extent, it represents a possible solution to my search for the leather scent, because it is one of the scents that will not be missing in my collection for long.
So let's start with the raspberry ;)
No, don't worry, Oro is different and that's good. If I read the comparisons to the Tuscan, they are probably based on the fact that the majority of them only knows the Tuscan as a leather scent, at least as a reference work.
In fact, Oro 1920 even starts with raspberry but here you have to differentiate. No saffron far and wide, no spicy thyme rushes to help and roasts the raspberry, so to speak. We have here fir balm, which, as the name suggests, wraps the raspberry in balsamic resins. Just before you get the feeling that it could get too sweet, the ginger intervenes and gives the sweetish fir balm a bit of spiciness and deeper expression. This opening is very delicate and well thought out, no smoke grenade but sublime leather smoking.
The exciting thing is that the raspberry naturally disappears gradually, you know it. But because we have used fir balm and not thyme, the incense does not smell as dirty as it does with roasted aromas. Of course it smells smoky but much clearer and still with this balsamic sweetness. In my opinion it also manages to keep the raspberry longer, but only very discreetly.
With this aura, Oro 1920 moves on, clearly taking the iris with it, which supports the fragrance with its own leatheriness and gives the leather a slightly earthy but elegant scent. The aura of the forest remains, but the gaze now wanders to the flowery and overgrown edge of the forest in front of it, where the May rose carefully exudes its own scent. You can imagine the intensity but you can see everything from the bird's eye view so that only a few sweet notes rise. This is enough to know that there must be a very intense fragrance down there. It is also slightly resinous; Opoponax also contributes its part. The scent becomes less noticeable here, retreats and then: then the leather scent intensifies!
Of course the leather dominates the fragrance throughout, it possesses this tart but distinct aura of its own preciousness. It is flanked by tobacco and vanilla, which give the leather a slightly creamy appearance, but thanks to tobacco it remains angular and smoky. Quite delicate and for that you have to know leather plus beeswax, the latter is audible. In the end it looks similar to vanilla but the scent is more characterizing, in the end more aromatic-footed.
What more can you say? All this takes place at a high level. No layman will be able to say, oh, but the fragrance smells quite different from the well-known representatives. But you wear the fragrance here because you like it and appreciate its class. Not because it is the most famous leather scent of the new era. I myself see the effect of Oro 1920 a bit above other leather scents, because this work is more thoughtful and profound in both the top and the middle notes. Even the ingredients seem wisely and stringently selected.
Oro 1920 is wonderful. For me, almost every handle fits, almost every detail. Yes, I think Tuscan Leather is excellent no matter how linear and predictable it is. It doesn't always have to be fancy around five corners, but that's only on the edge. Oro 1920 is slightly better in my eyes.
In this respect my statement at that time (see below) is wrong, since then I have been allowed to get to know a multitude of fragrances, many of them also repetitively, and have been able to devote myself to them in detail. Often I also read that the fragrance is too expensive. Everyone may decide that for himself and probably only leather lovers will agree with me that the fragrance is worth the price. Everything seen in relation to what other fragrances call for prices. I conclude that this is really a possible end of my leather journey and I'll stick to the name of the perfume: I'm Jason and this is my golden fleece.
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Hermesh
