I wish I had the chance to smell or find vintage Creed bottles, it didn't happen in the past 5 years, but today I resmelled a perfume with an entire history inside. Royal English Leather is a very good perfume from glorious Coty days (forget the official story!). It starts with a strong and almost medicinal styrax note, so particular to a certain type of leather perfumes, before IBQ reign and after the birch tar supremacy. Strong, smoky and with character it evokes the 20's and the time when Knize Ten was in favor. After several hours a great surprise! Royal English Leather is not one fragrance but 2, or to be more precise it is a fragrance built on another fragrance. I discovered all the details of
Origan with no mistakes and I even found the animalic musky touch. The sweet heliotrope is just a little tuned down but orange flower-spicy clove eugenol-methyl ionones are there and in the right proportion (the sandalwood is not natural). In terms of "gender" it is very curious how a feminine archetype became a masculine after a brilliant modification. Whoever created this perfume, he must have been an admirer of Coty to be that precise in details. Under the military leather coat a woman is dressed just with several drops of Origan. It rains, she's smoking and probably is Marlene Dietrich. A very good fragrance from the past!
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