African Leather

African Leather was created in 2015 at Memo Paris. Aliénor Massenet is its perfumer, and the concentration chosen is an Eau de Parfum. For its genesis, the house claims an inspiration: the African continent, whose name the fragrance bears traces of alongside the word leather.

The sizes recorded for African Leather range from 2 to 200 milliliters. The tiers are set at 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, 75 and 200 ml, making eight distinct sizes for the same Eau de Parfum from Memo Paris.

Top

Cardamom opens with an impression of spices shot through with freshness, characteristic of this aromatic seed. Geranium accompanies it with its rosy, floral and sweet facet, which the plant owes to molecules close to those of rose.

Heart

The heart repeats cardamom and geranium, with a fruity and sweet bergamot. Saffron pulls the spices toward tar, cinnamon toward bark. With earthy, camphoraceous patchouli and smoky vetiver, earth dominates. Cumin evokes sweat and musk an animal warmth. Rose recalls honey and wax, leather smoke and tobacco.

Base

Oud pairs wood with accents of incense and an animalic facet. Leather, present in the previous tier, returns in the base with its tones of smoke, tar and tobacco, evoking the tanned hides that the name African Leather announces.

Family

The composition is woody through oud, vetiver, musk and cinnamon: wood, bark and earth form its backbone. The spicy facet comes from cardamom, saffron, cinnamon and cumin. The leather facet owes to the leather note itself and to saffron, which also carries its tarry accent.

Label Mentions

Among the ingredients declared on the label is aqua, the INCI name for water. It contributes no scent of its own to a fragranced formula, and its mention provides no information on the dosage of the materials or on the notes described above.