Leather Incognito

An accord by Roxana Villa

This is a leather accord that is not a leather accord ~ it is a perfume. The ingredients read like a guest list to an exclusive party. A masque ball on the banks of a slow moving river.

The Choyas arrived with Mr. Mate in tow, while a belligerent Dr. Orris tussled a bit at the buffet line with the Balsam brothers, Peru and Poplar. The Misses Saffron and Mimosa cornered the handsome bachelor Mr. Cabreuva in the geranium garden, begging for cinnamon kisses. It was all in good fun.

The Oakmoss Band played into the early morning, leaving alone Labdanum and Ambrette embracing on the cedarwood dance floor.

Okay, that was just a bit of silliness. The 'guest' list is much, much longer. Without giving away too much by way of what's in this leather incognito, let me finish off by saying it is lovely. It opens fresh and sparkly with notes of geranium tangling with orange and bergamot. The flash lasts moments before moving into something softer, sweeter, a little closer to the skin. Flowers emerge -- jasmine, a hint of rose. This 'fume has spectacular lift. It is effervescent and pops off the skin. Never quite going completely dark and leathery, it maintains this lighter than air character. And it lasts quite a while on the skin.

In a word, this leather accord is delightful.

Leather ~ Ms Adrian

Le Parfumeur Rebelle's Leather Project commences:

Gail Adrian's submission to the leather project is the one I chose to begin with -- for no particular reason other than it landed in my hand.

This is a perfume in and of itself. It is light and dark, sweet and salty, warm, ambery, animalic and floral ~ in a word: Lovely.

Directly from my notes: Reminds me of a Native American blend with grasses and smoke and earth, muted fire, soil after a deluge of rain, is slightly floral (a nearly finished perfume!), animalic ~ this scent undulates, surges in and out like warm, murky waves. I would wear this if I wanted to seduce someone ~ ha!

Justine

Scentsation scentsory overload & loving it.

I have been a gardening fiend this past few weeks.  In fact, I am neglecting a lot of other things in life, like making soap or scrubs. My excuse has been because I have injured my back (which is on the mend), so I can't lift things.  And I haven't.  Just ask my husband ;) ... he was recruited to be lift boy.  However, that hasn't stopped me from planting things and a bit of weeding.  

It's been great year for my roses... I was gifted an antique jacques cartier and then i have two climbers that have just rock and rolled.  Now I am obsessed and need more.  If I can't eat it, smell it, or be healed by it, then it better be pretty ... 

Oh feline Goddess of the Kitchen...

...I petition and invoke thy steadfast state of relaxation to calm me as I attempt to take product photos on the kitchen table. Here, I will lay a green milk glass saucer before thy snoozing hairy feet, with a wee bit of home-baked bread with organic butter spread upon it.

Daisy Ernestine, help me maintain my cool, and help me to have a steady hand, as I hold the camera, and snap pics of perfume bottles in various stages of packaging.

Your humble servant,
sara, the un-photographer

Fascinating!

I am perplexed as I continue to labor on an astrological scent that requires an ability to create and balance luxurious and rich warm expansive scents of luxury with an underlying theme of disruption, creating order out of chaos and micro-management.

I have to admit, I've been struggling. And that can only mean another roller coaster ride for me.

Quite recently, I have been noticing that specific aspects of my patrons' lives which leave me puzzled appear in my life in the form of my own challenges that in turn, lead to new realizations leading to scentual resolution.

While I am having a blast, raising my hands over my head, and shreiking WHOOOOO while the winds of magic and empathy blow on my face. Nevertheless, the experience is also exhausting and requires my personal aromatic comforts.

To this end, I am finding for my own edification and centering, notes that include different Patchouli's, and Chocolate Tinctures.

Prelim From Tonie On the Leathers . . .

"Mooney got soft suede. Rox's~ I have to smell more~ it's so complex. I got 2 from Nic~ #1 maybe got tea~ #2 is the inside of an old cowboy boot~ a saddle. A warm tack room with dust filtering through the windows, dancing in the sunlight. There's a common thread that runs through these~ is it sandal & choya? I think it's tres cool that you babes are doing this~ offering cruelty free scent interpretations."

Operation Leather

Over the next few weeks, some of our contributors here will be posting information and reviews on a recent leather accord project hosted by Le Parfumeur Rebelle.

Modern natural botanical leather accords are usually typified by the use of birch tar, nagarmotha, choya nakh and choya loban, among other pungent smelling naturals.

I think you will be surprised and enchanted by the diverse interpretations of LPR's leather accord project submissions.