I'm about to gush.... Again! This is divine. I have to own this it's majestic. This is REAL magic come to life, I didn't think I'd be so taken with an amber fragrance but don't forget about the leather element. One of the best leather accords I've ever smelled. If Sultan was going for old leather bound books then he beyond nailed it! Usually when making leather accords there's tropes like castoreum, labdanum, birch tar etc... But also you have synthetics like Isobutylquinoline and Cuir bases like Suederal and Cuir 17500 at your disposal and you can push leather in different directions..because like many smells, you might think in your own mind that 'leather' is one thing but it's a broad, broad church. Sultan redefines it. This fragrance redefined to me what is possible from a leather accord. Maybe the leather on it's own IS more like a castoreum biased leather I've smelled before but brought together with amber, it modifies it to shine in a whole new way? Ambrecuir opens like a boozy, malt whisky smell but so incredibly refined, and smooth. Next comes a wave of leather and it's soft as butter, yet it's lived in, and has a life, cracks and wealth of stories to tell. Then into the sweetness element which is mildly tinged with a sweet, honey, medicinal note. The dryness and ancient, dustiness is there but it's not too much, it doesn't make your face implode from cotton mouth. This is a thick amber colour from the nectar of the honey bee's to the discoloured pages to the patina on the leather binding, this scent is vivid and alive. I think I'm going to cry? Emotive, life affirming perfumery.