The bottle really tells you all you need to know. It's wrapped in a tiny leather jacket, complete with zippers, as though it may very well just flip you off, jump on its miniature motorcycle, and head off into the sunset. That's an appropriate description of the scent overall, I think. It's leather, leather, and more leather, with a bit of harshness and in-your-face attitude.
The leather smells almost burnt, a little bit smoky and perhaps a tad bitter. It's a nice twist, and I think it makes the leather smell more authentic, because it's not getting buried in sweet notes. After the leather, there's a hint of dark chocolate (also on the bitter side), as well as a vanilla streak that becomes more prominent as the scent dries.
There's also some patchouli in the base that opens up in the dry-down, and that's basically where the final scent leaves you, in a patchouli/vanilla duality with the occasional waft of the original bitter leather to remind you how this whole thing started.
It's a nice scent, but as a darker fragrance, it doesn't have huge projection, and it doesn't have longevity beyond a couple of hours. I applied four or five sprays in the morning and needed to reapply at lunch time. Two and a half hours later, it's mostly a vanilla skin scent. For some people, that's a deal breaker, but I'll still use this scent and enjoy the couple of hours it gives me.
6/10 stars.
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