Eau d'Ombré Leather

Typically I am very picky when it comes to Leather in fragrance. A lot of the Leather notes you get in certain formulations tend to leave you smelling like a new car or a dusty old leather jacket. Untamed from Imaginary Authors does this very well. It smells like a hyper realistic leather saddle. For some maybe that is the vibe you are going for. I personally don't find those notes to really work for me however, so I often avoid them. With the Ombre Leather line, I have always found the EDP and the Parfum to be fragrances that smell nice but personally do not work for me. The Leather note in them is always incredibly forward and you don't tend to get much else as the fragrance settles. It's an in your face Leather fragrance that, to me, smells nice but also like a new car. Never been something I can vibe with. When I discovered earlier this year that Tom Ford came out with an EDT of Ombre Leather back in 2024, I was intrigued. Typically with EDTs you can expect a lighter, fresher, easier to wear fragrance given there is less oil concentration. My immediate thought was that if the Leather note in the EDP and Parfum was toned down and softer to wear, I might really enjoy this fragrance. Upon locating a bottle and giving it a whiff, boy was I right. I knew on the spot I needed a bottle. Tom Ford truly improved and perfected the Ombre Leather formula with this one in my opinion. The Leather note that is typically super forward is toned down a bit and feels a lot softer to the note. The addition of a Vanilla note to the base of this fragrance sets it apart from the EDP and Parfum, making it sweeter and helping further soften how harsh the Leather note is. The Vanilla is really only there to add a bit of sweetness, it doesn't make the fragrance feel gourmand at all which is nice. They took a fragrance DNA that has always smelled nice but had a rather bold, harsh approach and they made it far more wearable. Longevity isn't anything crazy here given it is still an EDT but I typically get a solid 5 to 6 hours of good wear from this, 8 to 9 as a skin scent. I layer it over a Vanilla scented lotion and it pulls compliments every time I wear it. You can find it on discounters for a really solid price and I've gone through at least half of my bottle this year. It's such an easy fragrance to reach for. If you find yourself disliking a lot of Leather fragrances due to how harsh they can be but want to add something leathery to your collection, I cannot recommend this one enough.

One of the best buys I ́ve ever done. The OG was not for me because of too much leather. I tried this in store and disregarded it right away since the opening still had too much leather for my taste. But then, a few hours later I was smelling my hand and the scent had changed and was still going really strong. The leather was barely noticeable in the background, the cardamom and vanilla had taken over and I loved the way it smelled. The next day I had to go back and buy a bottle. Since then it has been my most worn scent. The performance is perfect for me. It is never too loud but lasts all day. I always feel comfortable wearing this, knowing I smell really good to the people who come close to me and at the same time I am not forcing anyone further away to smell me. The ingredients smell really natural and high quality. There is none of that chemically enhanced stuff going on, since leather, vanilla and cardamom all naturally have a strong, long lasting scent. It is subtle, sophisticated and seductive. Is it as bold as the OG Ombre Leather? No. Is it the most original scent ever? No. The most masculine? No. Does it work? Most definitely! P.S. I don ́t get all these Babycat and RM5 comments below. Really, who cares. This is great stuff for a decent price. What are you guys doing here? You want to smell good or you want to position yourself just perfectly in the canon of fragrances (that by the way has absolutely no meaning outside this forum here)?

I spent a week with a decant of this fragrance, including a revisit of OL Parfum at the end. I'm an Ombre Leather lover, and this is another offspring of the DNA--nearly a fraternal twin of the parfum version. The EDT version just trades cardamom for vanilla. I think it's madness that some reviewers on here smell no resemblance to the other versions as well as claiming to miss the leather note entirely. That leather is still front and center here, only slighly dialed back from the EDP version (but very similar to the parfum flanker), while sharing the front seat with vanilla. You get that familiar OL gasoline smell at the opening, the leather and vanilla softening after the first hour into a really nice, well-balanced scent that sits around your neck like a halo for the first two hours before settling on skin for another four hours. After that, only a trace of the scent the rest of the way. Owning anything more than one entry in this line would be redundant--they're all that close in smell. The EDP is easily still king in terms of projection and longevity. And, yes, this smells just like YSL Babycat. Best value (price + performance) = Get the EDP If you prefer vanilla and price matters = Get the EDT If you prefer cardamom and price is no object = Get the Parfum

Wow what a fragrance. For reference, I have never smelled babycat so I can't comment on the comparisons, but this just might be my favorite leather scent that isn't leather forward. The leather is definitely there and noticeable, but not as forward as TF ombre leather (which I love as well). As much as I like TF noir extreme parfum, I think I like this better and IMO they would suit similar cases of wear. I would say the star of the show is the vanilla, but it is not a sweet vanilla that cloying, it's a darker, slightly burnt vanilla which together with the leather makes it suitable for a man to wear without thinking it's too feminine. That being said I think this is a unisex fragrance, maybe slight masculine leaning. You can still smell that TF signature in it (that something note that almost all of them have), so this isn't left field or anything, but man is this sexy as heck and would be a great date night scent. The far far dry down reminds me a bit of vertus vanilla oud, which is another thing about this fragrance; the longevity on this is great, I get around 10 hours (6 hours projection, 2 hours mild scent bubble, 2 hours intimate skin scent). Definitely on my buy list, for me this is full bottle worthy.

Pretty good Babycat dupe.. Just kidding, but they are really close. In my own opinion, I prefer this one on my skin more than Babycat. It is very different from the other Ombre Leathers, but they share almost the same opening which I love (the only difference is that this one has a sweeter more soft opening but you can still identify the Ombre DNA). I dont like it as much as the other ombre leathers, but I do have to admit that its surely way easier to wear than the other two and is definetly more mass appealing (I made some people I know smell it and they all prefered this one over the original). I just love that animalic leather from the original Ombre Leather and how dark it is compared to this one... (My love for Ombre Leather is unmatched!) Seriously though when i first smelt it I was thinking to myself: "Dang, did I already smell this fragrance?" and it just randomly clicked to me that it smelt just like Babycat with some key differences. I dont own this fragrance but I did fully test it on skin, the drydown is to die for man its so good! Definetly a 9/10 for me and I would personally buy this over Babycat!