New Autumn leather....

Yum. A thunderbolt of excitement struck me today. Sitting re-reading my copies of Vogue, Tatler, Elle and the like whilst enjoying an amazingly well roasted coffee and after glaring at the new Bottega Veneta AW ad campaign the prospect of their new and much anticipated fragrance release began to overwhelm me....

Penciled in for an August launch nationwide here in the UK, you can bet your last dollar I will be visiting all the usual fragrance halls on the day of its release for my initial whiff and then hopefully, hopefully the parting of my own cash to own a bottle of this exciting new jus.

Cast your minds back to the marvelous scented candles made in conjunction with L'Artisan Parfumeur back in 2005, handsomely encased in the trademark BV woven leather..... nom nom nom!!

The fragrance is made by scented behemoths Coty Prestige which holds a somewhat impressive track record for creating some of the best performing "designer" perfumes over the last coupla years (think Vera Wang, Chloé.... Marc Jacobs.) The perfumer scoring this one off is Robertet whip cracker Michel Almairic nose behind the perfumes of Chloé, Gucci and Giorgio Armani.

Categorised as a Floral leather chypre, something of a Coty speciality.

10 year Veneta vetran Tomas Maier Head of creative design at the italian fashion and lifestyle powerhouse said this about the new composition.. “An old house in the beautiful countryside in the Veneto region of Italy with rolling green hills, where we’re from. I envisioned a room with old wood floors, library walls and leather-bound books with the windows open wide, the breeze coming in and cut grass, hay, moss, garden flowers, growing through the room and everything mixing up. That’s where we started.”

 Sounds to me like a there may a perfect balance of dry, coumarin/tonka notes mixed with smoky Jasmin and leather accords rounded softly with powdered aldehydes.

The only released notes I have found are 

Bergamot, Jasmin Sambac, Pink Peppercorn, Oakmoss and Patchouli.

Other than this I really just wanted to share the new AW campaign shots, stunning, sad and beautifully balanced. Love the play on textures and the models expression.

Lush.