Blacks Club Leather

What a hidden gem!!!! As the name would suggest, this is a leather fragrance, however it is very smooth, EXTREMELY well-blended, and there is a sweetness to it, which I'm guessing is a result of the combination of beeswax (giving it a slightly honeyed feel) and cognac. This also has incense as well as woody notes. It’s masculine leaning, but I absolutely love the way it smells and of course I, being a female, am totally going to wear it. Additionally, the performance on this is fantastic- lasts ALL day on me. This was definitely a love at first sniff. After trying it on paper, I immediately had to spray it all over me, and then two days later I purchased it. So glad to have this one in my collection. If you’re a man, you definitely need to give this one a try😍😍😍

WOW! A VERY well made leather fragrance! A dark leather and spicy cognac opening with hints of wood and citrus. Although citrus is not listed in the notes, I do get some in the opening, lemon perhaps? After a couple of hours the lemon starts to fade and the bees wax makes an appearance, taming the dark and spicy scent a bit by adding an underlying sweetness. In the deep heart of dry down, I get a spicy wood wrapped in deliciously warm leather. Pure leather heaven! Yum!! I get good projection and longevity on my skin. While BCL is listed as Unisex, it leans more masculine to my nose. BCL works well in either casual or formal attire. I will be adding this to my collection soon! Bottom line: If you like dark, spicy leather scents you should try a sample of this.

I was sold on this one at the Scent Bar in Los Angeles. I've smelled many of the leather scents - it's my favorite note - but this one is superlative due to the woods and booze notes. It smells like... a club. A fine club. Very, very nice. A little more sillage and longevity would be good, but... ------------------ I've been wearing this off and on for the past six months. The more I wear it, the more I like it. This is seriously good stuff! Leathery, boozy... it hits the right notes for me.

If you like Oud Alif , then you're going to love this and vice versa. This has to be one of the best most well done quality leather compositions I have ever smelled. The concentration on these bottles are amazing also! Wow! Leather...western oud...dark sweetness and some wood. What else can a guy like me ask for. With out a doubt, I will be getting a full bottle of this! Every time I smell this, I am just blown away I love it !! Best leather I've smelt to date 10/10

Oh boy! I'm going to go broke. This is another "full bottle" I need. I got 25 samples from luckyscent and well this time most all of them are great. Which I'm glad as nothing's worse than dropping $100 on samples and getting one or two that are only full bottle worthy....like last time...this and memo Italian leather are going to be in my arsenal before winter time comes, I love this type of leather...love it!!

A beautiful well made Leather fragrance that does not dissapoint. Long lasting and the warm cognac and leather go very well together. If you love the leather scent then you will love this but may be too strong for non leather lovers. Shay & Blue is one of my favourite houses at the moment with a wide range of fragrances it’s hard to choose which one to buy. So buy all of them.

Bought this shortly after it was launched being one of the first leather fragrances I had. Still one of the best I have in my collection - great longevity & decent sillage. A really good fragrance. Surprised that it is listed as unisex though as consider this a very masculine scent.

To me, pretty simple and slightly underpowered standard leather - a very, very slight wisp of smoke, but no overwhelming booze or anything else. What it DOES have is a particularly dusty aspect to it - which I actually really like - very much the smell of shelves and shelves of old books rarely opened - and absolutely no floral frills. If you are very specifically seeking that mood, this 'fume may do that job, but unless you get it at a good discount this one is overpriced, IMHO, and you can get far more seductive leather scents with more varied facets for equal or lower cost elsewhere. Longevity and sillage also absolutely pitiful for the near-niche cost (£85/100ml in the UK.) I have a lot of time for Shay & Blue for making original, natural-seeming, quality scents without a lot of pretension, and for selling through M&S (a classy British supermarket - but still a supermarket). But I was really hoping for a bit more from this one - either more distinctiveness or more deliciousness, really. If you do find yourself shopping for a leather perfume at M&S then save yourself some money and go for something from Monotheme instead. (And if you're female and not tied to M&S ... you'd get more leathery bang per budget buck from MAC My Heroine, at less than half the price of this, if you can take a burst of powder along with it.)

The ambiance of Blacks of Soho is reputed to have inspired the naming of this scent. As to there being any such resemblance I can't say. A smokey hearth-like opening gives way to leather and furniture polish somewhat suggestive of studded-leather wing chairs and Chesterfields. The cognac is more sweet than boozy and moderates the smokiness for needed civility. The leather lasts longest until it eventually reduces to a soft resinous balsamic finish. Woody notes are not especially apparent. (Anyone know just how mahogany is meant to smell?) Projection and longevity are passable, but found wanting in warm weather. Should Shay and Blue be so inclined this could easily serve as a foundation scent for re-workings that might add a twist eg. maraschino cherry, vetiver, patchouli or tobacco? Only recently introduced to Shay & Blue whose rejection of in vivo testing I applaud. In fact because of it I'm motivated to explore more from this brand. Animals are sentient, intelligent, and not being able to speak for themselves makes it is incumbent upon us to speak for them. Blacks Club Leather isn't a favourite; but is agreeable. And for what it is worth, I'd be fine encountering this on a lady. Damn good stuff actually.

Rich strong leather fragrance. Well blended Leather Cognac and incense accords are prominent. I found the incense a little overpowering for the first 30 minutes or so but it soon settled down to something more pleasant. I got decent/good projection for the first 90 minutes then a strong skin scent for another 3 to 4 hours. Performance is average, I'm reminded slightly of the leather note in ADP Colonia leather (just the leather note not the fragrance as a whole). It's worth checking out for fans of boozy leather. I would personally find the retail price point (£85) a problem based on its performance. The fragrance is however niche quality, (just). A like from me.

Opens up strong and medicinal, but fades very quickly to reveal its true nature. Not a complex fragrance. Heavy on the leather but sweetened a touch with the beeswax. The cognac adds a nice touch with the beeswax. Woods are in the base, adding to the fragrance but not overpowering it, as some woods can do. Beautiful fragrance, well blended with each note playing its part in the mix. I don’t really get any smokiness to my nose. If you like Bentley Intense this could be right up your alley, although not as boozy, it shares a similar vibe. Give it a chance to develop, don’t judge on initial spray. In my want list for sure!

In the bottle the leather is very dominant--it smells to me just like an old library of dusty books and leather furniture, including some of the dust and the cigar smoke The-real-deal mentions below. On my skin, though, the woods and cognac come out immediately and stay for quite a while. The rich but yes, dry, leather smell remains throughout. In fact, it smells great on me, sexy in a grown-up and feminine way, for the four to five hours of longevity I give it.

This is a nice leather fragrance. the leather in this is not as strong to nose as in tuscan leather but it is in there, it has a certain dusty spicy sweetness to it which is equally blended with the leather. this fragrance reminds me of ysl noble leather.

Let's keep this simple; I really didn't like this. There was something very medicinal in the opening that gave me an instant headache. While there is something there that will remind you of a black leather club chair, there's also something there that reminds me of John Varvatos without the creaminess.In other words - it smells cheap and synthetic. I'm not getting much Cognac, but there's something floral and powdery that seems to be "competing" with the leather notes as opposed to blending together harmoniously.

As sensitive as I’ve become to nuances of fruits, florals, musks, and sweet ambers, my nose can still be quite dull about so-called masculine fragrances (and it doesn’t help that screaming woods and artificial ouds dominate the landscape, crushing the very concept of subtlety). But Blacks Club Leather, which at first sniff smelled very generically masculine (the scent of the mall?), is now unfolding before me in some complexity. I get sweet, papery, peppery leather and sweet resins, mostly. (Here my vocabulary still lacks.) Thankfully, the cognac note is more stewed fruits than the sharp, boozy sting of some scents where you can literally smell (and taste) the proof well into the drydown! And yes, the beeswax comes through beautifully. Overall, this is a honeyed, worn-in leather — the smell of a clean stable and a cup of hot cider with a pipe-tobacco finish. Addendum to say two things: this scent doesn’t quit! My husband (a polite sprayer) wore it all day to work, changed clothes, and still smelled sweetly and strongly of it 12+ hours later. And, this was the best of the three Shay & Blue scents I tried in their monthly subscription service.

A solid fragrance. The notes/main accords listed here are a little off to my nose. Opens up with a dry leather, cardboard, cedar wood and some lemon rind. Stays pretty consistent from there with the old, dusty books thing creeping in along with some cigar smoke in the background. Do not pick up animalic notes anywhere, nor any cognac. This is a very dry and dusty leather. In contrast to Tuscan Leather by Tom Ford, it is not nearly as "new"-leather dominant, nor as sweet, without background saffron or fruit notes of any sort. Couldn't see a woman pulling this off at all. Not really a signature scent and would likely get a 50-50 like to "meh" ratio from friends. No wow factor but the quality is there. Well blended. This reminds me of Baladin by Parfums de Nicolai another dry leather scent. As I have written before, the whole line reminds me of Parfums de Nicolai in quality, style, and the very well-blended nature of the fragrances. More longevity with Shay & Blue though.

Well, it’s leather. I think I’m not loving leather these days. This is a soft leather, with a faint touch of sweet from the beeswax everyone else can’t miss, but I have to look for. There’s soft wood too, in a nice supporting way, but turned dark and loamy like fallen trees, by the birch tar in the leather notes. It’s okay. It isn’t loud or shrieky or harsh at all. I just don’t love it. Might pair nicely with Chocomusk. Wish I got the sweet resins and incense everybody else gets. It’s just okay to me.

Currently my favorite leather fragrance. Hope to buy a full bottle soon. Peppery, rosy (probably the beeswax), herbal, enchanting, nostalgic, reminds me of my parents, fine leather, aftershave, dash of lemon, mahogany, cognac, beeswax. Like a fresh woody snifter of citrusy herbal cognac the leather is noticeable but it's not overpowering. I give it an A+

Strong, boozy, and smokey. A bit resinous and sweet but overall clean. This would be a great find for those that are into boozy, leather, and smoky compositions. It’s the smell of leather, smoke, and woodfire. The late dry-down is all about smoky woodfire, not much leather. Vague similarities to Laudano Nero and Tanoke.

Soft sweet leather... Mahogany, leather, vanilla, tonka, & beeswax. It has that soft light leather with balanced sweetness. This blend by far is my favorite in this brand. Beautiful.

Pretty good.. lots of incense to start, when it calms down it's better.. but I prefer Bentley Intense EDP personally.

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