Azzaro pour Homme Naughty Leather
Azzaro (2018)

Leather? Where?

This was my last fragrance to try from the series, which I know, I went about trying them in an odd order. While looking most forward to Wild Mint, it turned out to be the biggest let down. With my least interest being in this one, and by far the winner of the bunch Amber Fever. Since now having tried them all, they really all do share a similar sort of DNA, but it smells nothing like the original Azzaro pour Homme. They all have this sort of tonka/ambery characteristic about them, with it being most noticeable in Naughty Leather.

It's especially boring in this one, because there isn't much else going on but vanilla, tonka, and amber. The amber in Amber Fever is much more interesting, as it combines with spices and cocoa, it's also more resinous, but still nothing like a heavy niche label would deliver. Amber Fever to me is CKin2U perfected: better balanced, more masculine, more modern, more sophisticated, better performance, and I think in the end, if this line does get discontinued, which it probably will, Amber Fever's dna will get its own fragrance for Azzaro, because it's a nice one.

I digress, back to Naughty Leather. I honestly get no leather in this at all. If anything it reminds me of Boss Orange (another fragrance ironically with none of its name in the fragrance), just a glorified vanilla bomb. I will say that it never gets sickly sweet, or cloying, and if you can snag a bottle for a good price, it may be ok, but for the average BN'er looking for more interesting stuff, hell even the average Joe, this may just be way too simple. Certainly the most boring of the group, and probably the most safe too.

After further testings, I do get a hint of leather in the dry down. but it's so watered down, that you wouldn't even know it's there unless someone told you.

Naughty Leather doesn't remind me of any one particular release but more of a mixture of smooth, powdery modern crowd pleasers that maybe get lost in the shuffle. Scents like Pure XS Night or 1 Million Lucky but not as harsh or fruity as either of those. Naughty leather capitalizes more on generic freshness mixed with an airy vanilla. I don't get much leather. The late drydown is the most pleasant for me, clean, masculine and confidently seductive with some soft spices coming through. Overall a decent scent that could be versatile and pleasant enough for work or even a night out.

Performance is very good on my skin and clothes, lasting 10+ hours and projecting a decent scent cloud for most of those 10 hours. I used about 6 sample sprays and it never got cloying.