Memo Paris · 2013 · Aliénor Massenet

Italian Leather

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Green tomato leaf, juniper and pink pepper over iris and sage, settling into leather, myrrh, cistus and vanilla.

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Italian Leather’s scent picture, a draft: juniper, pink pepper, iris, bitter orange, clary sage, labdanum drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Italian Leather, when you spray it: Green tomato leaf, Juniper, Pink pepper

As it settlesheart notes

Italian Leather, as it settles: Iris, Bitter orange, Clary sage

What staysdry-down notes

Italian Leather, what stays: Labdanum, Myrrh, Vanilla, Leather, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

9 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins2 spices1 powder

5 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Reflection 45 ManAmouage · shares juniper, pink pepper, orris, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain) and 3 more$550 for 100 ml · about the same as Italian Leather’s $350
Decision 42Amouage · shares juniper, pink pepper, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), cistus and 2 more$550 for 100 ml · about the same as Italian Leather’s $350
Jump Up and Kiss Me HedonisticClive Christian · shares orris, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), clary sage, cistus and 2 moreabout $649 for 50 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.