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arochi – :
Alfarom would enjoy this one.
Замира – :
Take out all the ingredients for lemon peppered chicken. Throw away the chicken. Take off your leather Doc Martin shoe and prepare according to recipe. Cook until tender. The fragrance that fills your house (assuming you use enough pepper) will be this perfume. Bon Appetite!
“Wow! This perfume reminds me of how my mom used to prepare lemon peppered shoe for dinner every Sunday night.”
dimaKAN2033 – :
I think that when Paul says that this is a Leather like no other, he is not joking. I was thinking that this might be so far his most challenging creation for me. It made me feel strange at first, trying to fit what was familiar and odd here, until it ocurred to me that this is a kind of surrealistic leather, something that i never saw before. I get a series of contradictions, of a fragrance that has a butchery, carnal and animalic leather at the same time it smells like birch-like polished boots. The red here causes me a strange impression at first. It hits you strong at the opening and it’s such a mixture of colorful materials that produces me illusions, like objects that shouldn’t be there but seems to be anyway: i get the pepper,grapefruit, but at the same time i get an intense passionfruit aroma, which seems to turn into rhubarb very fast. Once i get used with the strangeness of this fruity things in a double leather impression, i see the last demanding sides of it: the powdery, hot carnation aroma, the very discreet use of roses, the boozy bay rum touch, the cedary incense working at background. The complete the scene, work as pieces that seems to produce the normal part of this surrealistic ambience. I don’t know if, after understanding it, i’m scared or fascinated. Maybe both? Certainly i would like to smell it more times to understand the strangeness it causes me at first.
колли – :
Talk about a crown jewel! This is definitely one of the most interesting leathers I’ve ever smelt, and I can understand why Kiler considers it his personal favorite work thus far.
Immediately upon applying this fragrance, I get the rhubarb: sharp, tart, and strong. It was off-putting for a few seconds, but I think that’s because rhubarb isn’t used often. This was mixed with a sort of rubber/vinyl note and something animalic, most likely the beaver (castoreum). It’s not “dirty” the way some castoreum scents can be, just very earthy and pungent. Suede and pink pepper seem to “underscore” the whole thing, though the pepper fades away quickly.
Within thirty minutes, that rubber note has morphed in to an incredibly warm leather. Warm, not hot–there are spices here, but they’re not overbearing. By the time you hit the two hour mark, every note is working together to enhance that leather scent. The spices and the powdery suede give this leather a texture so real, you feel like you could reach out and touch it. (I’ve noticed that another reviewer has mentioned that this wasn’t particularly leathery on their skin; clearly, I had the complete opposite experience!) The fragrance softens up a bit and becomes more balsamic after 6-ish hours, with something musky and vaguely powdery smoothing it all over. I think these are the florals coming through, though they’re so beautifully blended in to the composition that I can’t pink individual notes out. It just smells like a soft cocoon.
I do not get any neroli or ylang-ylang, nor do I pick up on a hefty dose of patchouli. I thought I was going crazy, but apparently I’m not the only Fragrantica reviewer who couldn’t find these notes in Red Leather. If they’re really in there, they’re taking a back seat to everything else.
In terms of sillage and longevity, Red Leather was another near-beast from the PK line. It lasted for about 7-8 hours on my hand through multiple washings, and for close to 12 hours when I sprayed it in my hair. The sillage is moderate to heavy, depending on how much you apply; I think more than a carefully-placed spritz or two of this fragrance would be overbearing. Besides, it strikes me as something designed to draw people closer…and how better to do that than to give those around you a “glimpse” of your fragrance?
I’m hesitant to run out and buy Red Leather because I don’t think I’d have too many occasions to wear it. I live a very sedate life, and this fragrance is anything but. But it’s absolutely worth testing out. And as far as artistry goes? PK’s Red Leather is tough to beat.
larieCepker – :
Do you know the 7 deadly sins? I’m going to introduce you to one of them: Lust, one of the greatest sins, one that can take you to commit others.
That’s how I will start to unravel this fragrance that brings the red in the name and on vibration. A fragrance full of desire, exuberance and voluptuousness. Without a doubt, Red Leather was not made to innocent people, who cherish for soft scents with angelic nuances.
Its output notes are: Buchu leaves (Agathosma) – which in perfumery provides fruity aroma, similar to black currant -, rhubarb, pink pepper and pink grapefruit. Its heart notes are: pink Carnation, red rose, ylang-ylang, neroli, Davana (with its sweet and fruity nuances) and Dianthine, which has aromatic aspect of Carnation. Finally, at the base: rum, patchouli, Bay Rum, teak wood, blood cedar wood, amber, musks, suede, Civet, castoreum and leather. With this amount of animalic notes, you can’t think of something other than sexy.
From its output, I’d say it’s a fragrance more designed for women. However, when the heart notes begin to emerge, the perfume changes and molds to its wearer. On me, presented green nuances of roots, plus a floral and slightly alcoholic aspect. On another person, I believe it will react differently, just like secret desires that show themselves when and to whom we wish to reveal.
Red Leather is not a typical leathery fragrance, which may generate disappointments for those who make blind purchases, waiting for a rich scent of leather. In my understanding, it is an aromatic-leathery scent. I would say that the leather, in this creation, works like an accessory of lust: the whip, the boots, the mask, etc.
Red Leather is a sensual scent and needs to be interpreted. And you, have already sinned today?
gamersimpson – :
Red Leather is deceptive in that it diverges from standard perfume interpretations of the subject, instead offering a hot, animalic, and stimulating ride with a polysemous charge that can be read differently from wearer to wearer.
Without hesitation, the scent throws the first punch of sharp rhubarb and pink pepper, creating a visual image not of red, but of hot, vivid pink. While forceful, there’s nothing abrasive or jarring about the way this opens, yet it’s more than enough to grab and hold your attention throughout the initial stages. But the second you grow accustomed to the unusual pepper/rhubarb pairing, things become complicated as by now animalic notes have stepped in and are mingling with the hot pinks to produce a slight dirty, indolic effect. At this point, the scent begins to vacillate between invigorating and something else entirely.
Saffron-type notes begin to appear and the overall coloration shifts from hot pink to a deeper and more seductive red. The rhubarb sharpness is still prominent, but retracts into the mix allowing the pink pepper to join forces with the other spices to reveal a rich, textured carnation base. The note transitions here are particularly clever in that they don’t simply compliment one another passively, but actively make use of each another to shift from one phase into the next. And as the scent moves into its final stage, the color shift becomes notably more of a deep red/burgundy which, like Kiler’s other fragrances, insinuates a narrative of movement that’s represented here as an initial seduction followed by a capture. And this, perhaps is where the leather component might be best indexed.
What sets this fragrance apart from other leather scents is that it’s just not that leathery. Instead, it creates more of an aura of a person in leather rather than rendering a literal leather effect. The scent’s moniker might even be said to produce an effect of longing within the wearer—a desire for leather, or more provocatively (and to trace the implicit narrative), a desire to be seduced and captured. From this perspective, the evanescence of the leather should not be read as a design flaw as the fragrance becomes especially arresting when approached from such a contextual standpoint, but it also raises the question of who might wear something like this and where might they wear it?
It’s unisex, but unconventionally so, as it would seem plausible that such a scent might work in different ways for different genders or orientations. There’s a raunchiness to it that stems from the animalics and the saffron-like spices; yet it can just as easily be read as a fresh, invigorating fragrance—one that could plausibly be worn to a formal environment. And it’s here that the name seems somewhat problematic in that “red leather” conjures up very specific images and associations, yet Red Leather itself is far more versatile than the associations it conjures. Furthermore, what leather notes are distinguishable are rendered so subtly and intriguingly, that a person looking for a standard leather fragrance might be disappointed to find that this one is considerably more intricate and interesting than the name would suggest. The leather note is certainly present, but is refracted through the the scent’s other components.
There’s not much that this could be aligned to as the dominant notes that Kiler selected are fairly uncommon in contemporary compositions. Aedes de Venustas EdP has a similar (albeit brief) rhubarb opening, but that scent leans more on tomato leaf to get its effect whereas Red Leather deploys the rhubarb as bait as well as a mode of transition. Ultimately, this is a surprising perfume—one that would lend itself to a slew of scenarios and wearers, yet it’s still quite particular in that it won’t appeal to everybody. For those who like their freshness with some hot spice, this might be a strong contender. But for those who want a simple text-book leather scent, there are others available that might serve that need better. Red Leather’s far more unusual and captivating than a stock leather fragrance, and it has an agenda that’s all its own.