Elementi : Leather Sensation
Byblos (2017)

Byblos, an Italian youthful, dynamic, optimistic and casual fashion brand set up in 1973, established itself for an easy going affordable founding concept based on products and garments with an excellent quality-costs ratio and inspired by travels all around the world. Along the way they have started to release excellent perfumes as well (more or less around 1983 with the lively Byblos for women but I have enjoyed in particular the great and gym-like muscular Byblos Uomo, an aromatic, humid, sparkling and spicy fragrance for men, launched in 1993). Byblos Leather Sensation is a peppery leather-aromatic new generation little fragrance for men launched in 2017 by this historic italian brand (alongside other fragrances of the same line Elementi di Byblos as for instance Metal, Carbon, Mare, Cielo etc) in order to issue on the market a line of affordable easy-going and appealing fragrances with a perfect quality-costs ratio. Effectively they (in this case but on all the line) hit the center of the target since this fragrance is more than dignified (in spite of its lack of originality), in line with average designer's general level of quality and super effective in its casual-dynamic aim. Leather Sensation is a solid François Demachy-Dior Sauvage Edt's dupe (quite similar to Capucci L'Homme Suave as well) ideal for the lovers of ambroxan/leather/pink pepper-dominant accords with a general freshly/herbal masculine aura. I detect by soon an herbal-aromatic floral fizzy citric twist a la Borsalino Chapeau (a superior italian appointment) but the ambroxan's presence determines an its own special run and final evolution. The opening is citric, peppery, herbal, fizzy, leafy (fern, lavender, geranium, citrus etc) and very similar to the Dior Sauvage's (the latter being slightly more peppery and ambroxan-infused) introduction but in here the following continuation is slightly different, being less laundry-peppery-wild (but still super manly) and with a final marked freshly soapy woody-leathery scent. I don't perceive a complicated evolution since the aroma starts "peppery" (rough a la Sauvage edt) and quickly slides in to soapy woodsiness with a leathery silkiness (sandalwood, leather and ambroxan appear perfectly connected in a sort of freshly herbal gereral aura). Dry down is amazing (better than the final Sauvage's olfactory settlement imo) and is stronger on leather and (most of all) on sandalwood if compared with its far more taking the world by storm Dior's cousin. A virile and super dynamic casual-sporty unpretentious fragrance which I'd wear better along spring time or hot humid months as well (night and day). About performances I'd say longevity is more than good since it lasts "fresh" about 6 or 7 hours on my skin while sillage is moderate and finally (over a couple of hours) the juice tends to become close to skin.