Leather

Leatherwood

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Leatherwood is an accord that evokes the Tasmanian leatherwood tree, Eucryphia lucida, and the honey made from its blossoms. It smells of warm, waxy honey and blossom with a spicy, slightly medicinal edge. A faint leather-like tone can show late in the base. The name does not describe the smell.

Scent Profile

Warm, waxy honey first, with floral blossom and a spicy, slightly medicinal edge that keeps it from being purely sweet. Later a faint leather-like warmth and a trace of musk show in the dry, honeyed base. It carries a cool, minty, camphor edge that keeps the honey from turning cloying.

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Leatherwood is usually an accord, a blend of several materials, such as:

Hotrienol tropical

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use this material, or something else.

Origin

Leatherwood is Eucryphia lucida, a rainforest tree found only in Tasmania. Its white flowers have a strong honey scent, and bees make a well-known honey from them. No commercial oil or absolute is on the market, so the perfumery note is an accord. The name refers to the tree's wood or bark, not to a smell.

Usage in Perfumery

Leatherwood is used mostly as a base note. Parfumo lists 25 perfumes with it, from 2007 to 2025. It gives a warm honey and blossom tone, close to beeswax absolute and linden blossom.