Suggestions for leather:

Puredistance M
Hermes Kelly Caleche (I like the EDP, the leather is subtle)
Cuir de Lancôme
Atelier Cologne Sous le toit de Paris (faint leather)
Papillon Parfum Anubis

Natlvana…forgive me…one too many tequilas! Tobacco…leather…no biggie! Ha!

Bvlgari Black, Shalimar (eau de parfum)..

I was crazy about TL at first but now I think it’s too sharp… ADP CL is less sharp probably and still has that cocaine smell (melted plastic bag and gas) to it with a softer less sweet drydown to raspberry than TL. I’d have to try it again.

Have you tried BV Eau Legère? And Parfums Retro Grand Cuir isn’t apricotty at all, although I don’t know if it’s necessarily more daytime than the TF.

Ann, will do!

Well, to be fair, you’ve probably not spent hours sending cattle through the chute and giving them shots. I get the whole shebang out of Cuir de Russie: dust, dry manure, iodine, cattle hide, and fear.

I know everybody else thinks it’s baby angel skin.

Natlvana: first: WELCOME! Second, up earlier in the comments there are lots of great suggestions for tobaccos. One I like that is not mentioned is Costamor Tabacca…there’s a review here at NST you can read to see if you think it would appeal…certainly a day-time tobacco.

Merlin: OK OK…I have to try this Cuir Cannage! And I think you are right…I’m talking about perfumes with a DOMINANT tobacco note. Lots of perfumes with tobacco as an ingredient appeal…when all others notes are not subservient to tobacco.

I have to say that my other ‘leathers’ are very different – Nostalgia with its diesel and barbecue notes is much oilier than both Cabochard and Gomma. And of course Bal a Versailles and Dzing are quite distinctive. (Perhaps because the leather note is just not so dominant in them). And while I am preaching about using stuff – my confession is that I have not yet dared to open my Cuir Cannage… (the happiest leather imaginable!)