Racquets
Penhaligon's (2021)

This one was a love at first sniff for me. It opens with a fresh, realistic and zesty lemon note which sits atop a nice rich leather and ambroxan base. The leather accord here is really nice, and quite different from other leathers one might bring to mind. It isn't a sharp new car or bag sort of smell. It has an oily, musky quality reminiscent of old, well worn gloves. As someone mentioned on another forum, it also hints at the smell of sheepswool or lanolin. This is a somewhat unique fragrance, so it is difficult to compare it to anything I've tried. Though they smell nothing alike, one could say in very broad strokes that it does something akin to Aventus, pairing sparkling citrus up top with dark basenotes in a similar way, only this time it's lemon-leather-musk vs. pineapple-birch-musk. The contrast between the tops and bases tickle my synesthetic responses in vaguely similar ways, at least. I would argue they have similar use cases, and that people who like Aventus will like this as well.