Emporio Armani Stronger With You Leather

Stronger With You Leather I blind brought this as I was looking around for more leather frags under designer labels. I initially came across this on one of the resellers and have it on my kiv list for leather frags, then the video for Antonio Centono came along and I decided to get it. The og which was released in 2017 is very sweet but this SWY's flanker is supposed to be Armani's Dubai/ME Exlusive was released in 2020. The Bottle itself is Shiny Gold all over and the color and design is gorgeous and so pretty, really lovely. You can use it as a mirror for make ups and comb hair. There wasn't any retail available so this is a tester batched 2021 June. Now! Wow! What a flanker! Love at the first sniff! This has one of the Best and gorgeous, fantastic opening for a leather/oud frag. The semi sweet spiciness with the nuanced soft velvet suede leather and a soft oud, my nose literally can't stop smelling and melts in this lovely opening. It's smooth and creamy and the leather+oud eally blends well with the sweetness of swy but not as sweet. One can literally shower with this juice. It stays quite linear to the Mids, calming down to really beautiful vanilla creamy leathery soft oud drydown. Definitely blind buy Worthy. Very suitable for all day wear and all occasions, especially nights and dates Swy leather excels in projection and silage. It starts off projecting strongly off me for first or or two, better not overspray. I had SWY when it was released, felt abit too sweet for me and I haven't gotten my nose in all of the flankers, the very well received Oud and Only in 2022, the new and latest Amber and LE in 2023, Freeze in 2020, and the popular Absolutely in 2021. Tried the well received Intensely in 2019 but did not purchase and Now I maybe keen to add another one two of the newer flankers. I can see a whole lot of ladies loving this scent as guys wear it. I haven't gotten such a beautiful gorgeous lovely scent for the numerous frag buys past months, been a while. For something similar, I nosed By the Fireplace vibe in this but without the burnt vibe and added sweetness, there's also some absolute code in this. Final Verdict: 9.5/10 Absolute gorgeous leather/oud gourmand perfection in a beautiful bottle with awesome projection, silage and longetivy.

#563 in my "Tour de Fragrance" This is another case where the scent that started the line was nice, but unoriginal, yet the flankers are more worth owning. As with "Stronger with You Amber", "Stronger with You Leather" is an improvement over the original delivering a nice vanillic leather. That said, Armani Code Absolu is IMO a better scent in this category. Maison Margiela's Replica "By the Fireplace", Polo "Supreme Leather", Paco Rabanne 1 Million are all more complex and interesting, especially if you like some sweetness (not my jam), and priced about the same. I always try to recommend a less expensive alternative, so I grabbed my bottle of Oud 24 Hour Majestic Gold since so many said it reminds them of this scent and I just don't see how. The leather, vanilla, chestnut and elemi give this scent a completely different character from the Oud 24 which is all wood and nothing but wood, comes across dry, and just isn't a satisfactory alternative to this. From the time I purchased and reviewed it till now I haven't reached for the Oud 24 once. I could happily wear this Armani scent every day.

1st This Edp Stronger With You Leather is available on Amazon for $174.95 for a 3.4oz bottle but if you keep an eye on it you can pick it up cheaper like I did for $133 you just have to periodically check Amazon every day to see if the price goes up or down. 2nd It comes from California from business called Awesome Perfumes and shipped by USPS with a tracking number. 3rd Took awhile to get but worth it omg this is phenomenal. 4th Had this for about a week now and the smell is fantastic and Importantly the longevity last forever everything comes together nice on this along with the nice Leather smell. 5th This Parfum is hard to get and took awhile to find it in stock and available but my search is over because now I own it and in my collection along with the rest of the Stronger with You Line.6th did not like Freeze it was gift thank God and sold it later for $60 it was like spraying lemon water on. 7th Guys this is on Amazon don't miss out pick this up Definitely blind buy worthy get it while they have it.......this overseas release is not going to last long.

Very fantastic. Opens up with a lot of nutmeg and spices but not overly spicy, with a very buttery smooth sweetness. Right after that you can smell the leather which is prominent but not too strong, cause at the heart of this you get the signature SWY DNA, which smells amazing and not redundant in this at all. And then in the dry down you kinda get this woody and oudy smokiness, it is very subtle and works perfectly with the SWY sweetness BUT. In the drydown i do think that it falls a bit flat and becomes linear but extremely tasty. The performance is not that impressive for a sweet leather fragrance, you get good longevity but not much projection, at least on my skin. I think this fragrance would have been even better if it had a stronger base, more ambers and more woods would have gave it more depth and complexity and carried it’s longevity even further. Although it’s lovely, it could have been Epic. I found this for $106 at a store, this is not worth the money that people are selling it for because it’s rare.

SWY has become one of my favorite lines - aside from the original and Intensely, which were indeed quite similar to the Most Wanted line (which I've discovered before the first). I have Absolutely and this - for sure, having certain resemblance the father you go into the dry down. A bit of funk with a beautiful warm, spicy, and some sweet - I may be catching a bit of booze here at some point, but not evident as in Absolutely. The oud-leather will give you a masculine and, like mentioned, funky aspect to the fragrance particularly in the opening-mid -> dry down does get SWYish, just like Absolutely. Very pleasant, but still not surpassing Absolutely, neither in performance nor in scent profile. Longevity is great, with moderate projection. My bottle is quite new, so maceration may take place, thus enhancing its performance - not one that I care much about the performance since it smells so good! Very interested in contrasting this with SWY Oud. Got my bottle as a gift, but the 100ml was for around $110.