Leather

What it is

No leather is involved. It is built from birch tar, styrax, isobutyl quinoline and safraleine, a recipe descended from the smell of the tanning process rather than of the finished hide.

What it smells like

Like a new jacket, smoky and bitter with a dry rasp underneath. It runs from soft and suede-like to tarry and almost medicinal, and those two ends have little in common beyond the label they share.

How strongly it is worn

The average strength this accord is listed at, where 100 means it dominates the fragrance.

71 / 100

What builds it

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

Accords it sits beside

Same measure, with its own family filtered out. Saying woody turns up with oud is a restatement, not a finding.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Byredo (14), Amouage (12), Nishane (12), Rasasi (11), Tom Ford (11), Valentino (10).