You know, Leather Fragrances are a specialty of mine…

I’ve got two done, Red Leather, and Zaffran, and Gold Leather is really close to done.

So Thinking about Leather Fragrances…

Someone asked about English Leather, as a style of Leather fragrance, similar to Russian Leather , or Peau d”espagna.  I think that my reply went like this:

Ok, Well, not because I’m a know-it-all, but I *HAVE* been doing a whole lot of
leather research. I haven’t run across anything like an English Leather
style/category of Leather fragrances, but for the names of those two frags.

But there is in fact a style of, or a quality of English leather products. It
would of course be a good selling point for an item to be made with English
Leather material. I remember my grandfather who repaired luggage in Los Angeles
had drawers full of replacement leather straps, trunk handles, and briefcase
handles that stated on the drawers, that their origin was English. When I was a
boy, I really LOVED to open those drawers and smell the English Leather handles,
and feel the smooth finished and stitched handles… Whenever I went to his
shop, it was one of my favorite things to do, was smell the English leather
handles drawers.

I still have many of those handles in my garage, because I just couldn’t bear to
toss all those high quality products when we cleaned up his shops. They smelled
so great and were of such high quality…

I just went out to the garage, and took a picture of the handmade drawers that Grampa made, and the drawers I still keep with those beautiful English leather trunk pulls, along with those beautiful glass doorknobs and phenolic colorful drawer pulls I got from him, waiting for the right funky project to put them on.

My Other Grandfather also worked with Leather, he was a tool and die maker for a Leathercraft tool make here in Los Angleles.  And He worked a lot with leather too, as he was the Los Angeles City Schools Crafts Director in the 1950’s.

So it also made sense for me to learn to work in leather, which I did while I was in 4-H between the ages of 10 and 19.  I can’t seem to find anything that I made that hasn’t suffered wear and tear from that era, but I’ll find some items and post them if it’s appropriate…

Nonetheless, Going into the Leather Store is one of my favorite fragrance places in the whole world to go.

I even got to go to a Tannery in the Highlands of Nicaragua, just under the Honduran border.  (and had to evade the banditos up there…)

Needless to say, Leather is a favorite scent…   🙂