Noble Leather

YSL Noble Leather has a strong reputation in the online community, and after smelling it a couple of times and now wearing, it's easy to see what. It balances a serious leather with less serious elements. It involves a healthy dose of leather but several sweet components complement the leather: vanilla, amber, and dried fruits. Also, patchouli and saffron add some character an an earthy/powdery blend that modifies the sweetness well. Noble Leather is not an all-out gourmand leather but one with nuance and subtlety: a solid achievement. It has similar sweetness to the more-affordable Davidoff Leather Blend but involves a pinch of powderiness that pitches it ever so slightly toward Dior Homme Parfum. It leans mostly toward the sweeter, though. Performance-wise, it's very strong. Not as strong as the strongest leathers I've smelled like Tom Ford Tuscan Leather but surely in the next stratum below that, really one that will do wonders in even the colder weather and requires very few sprays in warmer weather. It's easy to see why it's popular and fragheads see great value in it. I quite like it, but for the price, I like Davidoff Leather Blend a lot more (circa $60 for 100ml vs YSL at $250 for 80ml). I assume Noble Leather is available for discounts, though, and I might consider a bottle further if cheaper, but not before I do a side-by-side test with Leather Blend. 8 out of 10

Elegant and creamy ! Rich sweet leather , easy to be worn by a woman, in fact I tested it today and my husband said it was girly ! Wow , I was happy as I thought he would say it was too masculine. He must mean the sweetness and fruits?? Anyways , he is wrong, like most of the time when it comes to scents ;) it's certainly not girly, it's mature and unisex and faboulus expensive smelling. Most girls couldn't afford this nor would wear this. It's a warm leathery scent , sweetened by dried fruit vanilla and amber , brought to earth by patchouli , but you do not need to love patchouli as its in the background , not dominant. Other sites say this contains violets tangerine and saffron in the top notes , I would have to smell this again to look for those , from my memory alone I remeber mainly vanilla, leather and dried fruit. And no it does not smell like Tuscan leather, which I also love but which is indeed more masculine and has a smokey feel to it, this has no smoke , it's just very suble and can be easily worn by a woman. However it does remind me a little of Tobaco Vanille because of the dried fruit and vanilla it resembles it more than Tuscan in my opinion. I tested the entire line and this one was my favourite. I am thinking of getting a bottle. Tested this again. It is indeed nice. To me it's a leathery version of TF Tabacco Vanille.

This is my first truly expensive fragrance, and I bought it in a recent visit to Paris with my wife. I originally was considering the sweet and smoky "Straight to Heaven" by Kilian or the more balanced and woody "Splendid Wood" also from the same collection by Yves SL, but I couldn't pull away from this intense and warm perfume. Way overpriced, but still very worth purchasing if you can afford it. I don't find leather to be the dominant note (I work with leather a lot as a side hobby making bags and wallets etc) but it is there, especially after the first hour or so. The dominant impression at first is spicy-sweet, vanilla, with a nice under-belly of patchouli. I find it difficult to find perfumes that I like. Most mainstream scents smell too "high-pitched" and have a similar synthetic metallic undertone that I can't stand. This was the first perfume I found that I could wear beyond just dabbing on Sandalwood or Patchouli. I LOVE the warm aura this scent creates around me like a bubble of earthy smoke. It's sillage is very strong for the first half of the day. I absolutely am addicted to the smell of it on my skin as well, which for me has a similar sweet syrupy smell as if I had smoked a high end cigar earlier in the day... So far for me this is the scent to beat.

WOW! Just WOW! This is an AMAZING scent! It is like a fruit roll up covered in leather and dipped in a vanilla cognac. Some may find this too sweet, but it really shines on my skin. Beautifully crafted, Nobel leather lives up to its name. It is class, elegance, luxury and complexity in a bottle. NL is a soft sexy scent, but it is not timid. A lot of comparisons to Tom Ford's Tuscan Leather. Personally I do not get that. Although they both have a great leather base, they are very different scents. To my nose, NL one of the best leather scents on the market and IMO much better that TL. NL is a very unisex scent that I can see in either trendy casual or business attire. I get great projection and longevity on my skin. Bottom line, if you like leather scents, you HAVE to try a sample of this.

In my top 5 frags ever. Smooth, sueded leather + dried fruits, with a dash of vanilla (not very sweet at all) and Patchouli. The sum of the whole is soooo much better than the parts describe. Everything here is blended really well, no one element can be described as "heavy". An incredibly sexy, masculine, smooth scent that can be worn on all but the hottest days/nights...but it definitely shines as an evening scent. This has probably gotten me the most compliments out of any frag that I've ever owned. Just paid a litle too much for a vintage bottle, and it was worth it (to me). Doesnt remind me of Tuscan Leather at all, as TL is a considerably coarser scent. They're in the same general category, but still pretty far away from each other