Creation of Memo Irish Leather Travel Spray

Arthur Shelby just walked inside the room your in.10/10

I would have expected a little boozy note thrown in here given the "Irish" moniker if I'm being honest. Instead, Memo focused more on bringing a green leathery profile, some getting the idea that this is supposed to be something like Green Irish Tweed but with leather. It isn't.I am a tad curious how something like that would've turned out. However, Irish Leather seems to be closer related to another iteration of the Cuir Nomades collection - Italian Leather. While both countries sit roughly 1300km apart (that's about 560,000 bald eagles with an average wingspan of 7.5 feet for my fellow Americans), it seems Memo and Massenet, the perfumer, found similar inspiration when creating both of these fragrances.That's not to say they're identical; they just share a couple of notes and largely the same accords, yet they still have their distinct ingredients. First and foremost, Irish Leather is not as sweet as Italian Leather, which is a win in my book. The opening of Irish Leather strikes with a spiced-up piney juniper which is also refreshingly bright. The pink pepper also appends some gentle fruity/rosy undertones, while the mandarin orange which replaces the tomato leaf in Italian Leather, adds a short-lived citric zest.As the heart notes push through, we find yet another two notes that Italian Leather also presents at its heart: clary sage and orris concrete. These two add a herbaceous and somewhat buttery/powdery backbone, while the petitgrain in Italian is replaced with Maté absolute over here. The latter provides much of the green accord, with herbal and hay-like touches, as well as reminding of tea or a very green tobacco, which might also give the impression of a faint smoky character. All of this falls onto a gently sweet leather, nearly identical to the leather in Italian Leather, only here it doesn't have myrrh and bourbon vanilla and cistus to sweeten it up so much. Instead, it takes a simpler (and boring) approach with some dry cedarwood next to it, while the vetiver seems lost in there, not bringing any more than a rooty/grassy aspect. All-in-all, if I have to choose between Italian and Irish, I'd go with Irish in this instance. But I don't love either enough to even think of a full bottle.Performance was a tad softer with Irish Leather than it was with its Mediterranean counterpart. Projection was okay, but hardly impressive, with a decent bubble around me for the first 1-2 hours, after which it would gently soften up more so than I'd wish. Longevity was about the same as with Italian Leather, however, both reaching somewhere around 10-11 hours.If you were to ask me which one is more versatile, I'd probably lean towards Irish Leather, given the less sweet profile and slightly softer projection. It's also better suited for high heat than Italian Leather will ever be. And as long as you can afford it, Irish Leather would serve just as well as a daily/signature scent as it would for dressier occasions.One last thing that both Italian Leather and Irish Leather have in common, which seems to apply for most of Memo Paris' fragrances really, is that they're just a little boring. Sure, good quality and blending, but the scent profiles just lack that "sparkle", that punch that makes other niche fragrances "niche". Sure, you could say that Memo's approach is more refined and restrained in some instances, but I don't think that's what I'm looking for when paying close to €250 for a bottle. So once again, you're paying largely for the brand name rather than the composition itself. It's a good fragrance, just not one worth its price tag.Presentation: 8.5/10Scent: 7/10Longevity: 9/10Projection: 6/10Versatility: 8.5/10Value for Money: 3/10Overall: 7/10

Smells of soft, supple leather with citrus and a slight smokiness. Projects for hours with good longevity. I consider it a successful blind buy.

It’s really nice balanced leather with floral and tobacco notes for me

Realy nice scent smells a bit like gasolin but i realy like it. Its like you go to buy a new car and you sit in it for the first time and start it.