It’s one of those icy, biting mornings. The sun scarcely manages to break through the heavy grey clouds. The air is crisp and dry, and the wind slips beneath my clothes. The North wind whips the grass that sticks to my boots. I walk into the stable and swing open the wooden tack room doors, freeing the burning scent of leather, wood, amber and honey.

Its age old odor stands out sharply in the frozen morning air. My horse whinnies softly. It’s the smell of her freedom. The leather gathers in the wind, the grass warms with the wood. Irish Leather gallops off into the horizon.

Memo Co founder John Molloy is understandably proud of his rural Irish upbringing, and Irish Leather, the first of Memo’s Cuirs Nomades series, positively sings of Ireland’s rustic beauty. Opening notes of juniper, pink pepper and clary sage whisk us away to the wild countryside, while the leather sharp, well worn and deeply animalic gives us the barn, the saddle and the horse all at once.

Comforting yet forlorn, stark yet vibrantly beautiful, Irish Leather is among the most wonderfully wearable leathers we’ve ever experienced.

Irish Leather by Memo Paris is a Leather fragrance for women and men. Irish Leather was launched in 2013. The nose behind this fragrance is Alienor Massenet.

Irish Leather fragrance samples available in 1ml, 3ml and 5ml sizes.