Okay so I've manage to try a few more Zara fragrances and I have to say these two leather ones aren't really leathery. I can give this one a pass because the vanilla/tonka tones in here do evoke a leathery base but the Aventus clone one? I suppose birch smoke could be conceived as leathery...but not really. Okay that aside and this scent is not instantly recognisable until it settles and the Ultra Male comparisons are clear and accurate. Opens with that gourmand, ultra sticky sweet notes a bit fruity, nondescript, unnatural fruit... bubblegum. Then it dries down to a clonker of a tonka, sickly, dense, dirty vanilla and although I'd say extremely similar to ultra male, this is somehow cheaper and more cloying. I still to this day do not understand why I like Ultra male, I should hate it but it's a total pussy cat on my skin and smells quite good. Gourmand Leather however just smells like the plethora of awful Tonka based scents of a few years back. It's okay I suppose and I don't hate it, the opening is not only different to Ultra Male but I thought it wasn't bad, if you want something heavy and clunkily warm and sweet.
Gourmand Leather, from Zara was released in 2017. The perfumer behind this creation is unknown. It has the top notes of Bergamot and Lemon, middle notes of Iris, and base notes of Leather and Tonka Bean.
Okay so I've manage to try a few more Zara fragrances and I have to say these two leather ones aren't really leathery. I can give this one a pass because the vanilla/tonka tones in here do evoke a leathery base but the Aventus clone one? I suppose birch smoke could be conceived as leathery...but not really. Okay that aside and this scent is not instantly recognisable until it settles and the Ultra Male comparisons are clear and accurate. Opens with that gourmand, ultra sticky sweet notes a bit fruity, nondescript, unnatural fruit... bubblegum. Then it dries down to a clonker of a tonka, sickly, dense, dirty vanilla and although I'd say extremely similar to ultra male, this is somehow cheaper and more cloying. I still to this day do not understand why I like Ultra male, I should hate it but it's a total pussy cat on my skin and smells quite good. Gourmand Leather however just smells like the plethora of awful Tonka based scents of a few years back. It's okay I suppose and I don't hate it, the opening is not only different to Ultra Male but I thought it wasn't bad, if you want something heavy and clunkily warm and sweet.