Rome

Rome goes straight for the unusual green tomato-leaf accord that makes Memo Paris Italian Leather so recognisable, opening with a genuinely bitter, vegetal snap of tomato leaf and galbanum that captures the original's most distinctive feature reasonably well. The transition into a leather-and-iris heart is a touch more abrupt than the original's carefully blended structure, and the base - sandalwood, opoponax, myrrh and musk - reads thinner and less balsamic than the rich, resinous dry-down that reviewers of the original praise for its all-day performance. The result still delivers the core green-leather concept convincingly for anyone who wants to try the idea without the niche price tag, though it fades faster and loses some of the original's powdery, gourmand-adjacent complexity in the later hours. Sillage is moderate to bold in the opening phase, settling to a closer skin scent within a few hours. A solid entry point into the tomato-leaf-leather genre.