Leather Perfumes: a Unique Genre [Fragrantica webzine]

10/10/13 1:09 π.μ. Leather Fascinations: a Perfume Genre Like No Other ~ Raw Materials Page 1 of 9 http://www.fragrantica.com/news/Leather-Fascinations-a-Perfume-Genre-Like-No-Other-4760.html 10/09/13 13:35:32 Raw Materials Leather Fascinations: a Perfume... More

10/10/13 1:09 π.μ. Leather Fascinations: a Perfume Genre Like No Other ~ Raw Materials Page 1 of 9 http://www.fragrantica.com/news/Leather-Fascinations-a-Perfume-Genre-Like-No-Other-4760.html 10/09/13 13:35:32 Raw Materials Leather Fascinations: a Perfume Genre Like No Other By: Elena Vosnaki "There are three idealists: God, mothers and poets! They don’t seek the ideal in completed things—they find it in the incomplete." This aphorism by coffehouse bohemian Peter Altenberg perfectly encapsulates the magnetic pull of artful objects which require our own poetic (or motherly, as each individual case allows) addition to make them gain life in our hearts and in our minds. Though perfumes are largely an affair of design and craft, the personal touch that the wearer adds creates an inextricable bond between substance and form, between the ideal and the real. Fragrance imbued in notes reminiscent of leather come with their own complex subset of attributes; one of sensuality, another of spiritu Less