Leather + Benzoin

Resinous, slightly alcoholic, fuely and petrolic at the start which remains for a couple of minutes. Becomes then more weighty, grounded, earthy and a hint of leather comes through. Eventually the leather becomes ever stronger and gives the scent a bit of an animalic tone. Dirt lingers in the air but never materializes - the perfume remains composed and evokes even something comforting and warming. Nonetheless, a dead-beat masculine scent, very much to the extreme I would even say. And more a night-time than a daytime scent - all year round. More for the heavy-lifter dressed in a broad-shouldered suit, fresh from the oil rig or a long day in the gravel pit... an elegant gentleman during dinner but ready to become violent when the situation calls for it. Faint memories come to mind to an infamous Dior bestseller from the late 80s - however, WOMO, departs from that traditional DNA and delivers a modern perfume that sits comfortably in the 2020s while still capturing a scent profile that's long gone from the current olfactory landscape: a blue collar scent!

Partly like a more nuanced take on the (Russian) leather of Gucci Guilty Absolute. Has a similar camphoraceous aspect, but there's more going on in this, not least up top. This smells slightly broader/deeper/thicker/rounder, more nebulous, and somehow less--I don't know--blunt or direct, less piercing, less green. What GGA wears to be more gentlemanly, but not by much.