Men
The Lover’s Tale
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The Lover's Tale by Francesca Bianchi is a fragrance from the Leather family, designed for men and women. Launched in 2018, the nose behind this creation is Francesca Bianchi. The top notes feature honey, mimosa, aldehydes, and bergamot; the heart notes include iris root, peach, heliotrope, Egyptian jasmine, and Bulgarian rose; and the base notes are composed of leather, castoreum, musk, labdanum, oakmoss, sandalwood, and vetiver.
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- Positivo 73%
- Negativo 18%
- Neutral 9.2%
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Pure leather, animalic, and sexual. Very powerful and intimate. Two sprays last over 12 hours. A 30ml bottle lasts a lifetime. I put it on my neck with my shirt and had to take it off immediately because it was too much. It’s the most bestial perfume I’ve tried, withstands everything and stays with you. Francesca Bianchi broke it. I don’t know if this is legal.
Animalic, dirty, shrill, and lasting at absurd levels. Who wants to smell like this? It smells like a neglected stable. A friend said it smells like village parties after horses have distributed caramels: the smell of trodden-on caramel, faeces, and an old lady’s flowers. I don’t understand wanting to smell like this.
I wanted this perfume for its sexual connotations, but I was wrong. I started with decants and my joy went down the drain: it smells like a literal stable on my skin. The longevity is brutal, the dry-down still smells of manure after six months. By the way, Under My Skin smells like a butcher’s shop and Sex and the Sea like sweaty skin with suntan lotion. But I discovered Angel’s Dust, the most delicate I’ve ever smelled, like angel dust.
I bought it blind and it was love at first sniff. Opens sweet with mimosa, then leather, castoreum, civet, and peach create an animalic, creamy, and powerful blend. To me, it smells of passionate sex, not poo. Those who say it smells like a stable perhaps aren’t used to these concentrated notes. It’s for winter, night, and elegant people. If Under My Skin is sexy/tender, this is pure sexy/sex. Lasts days on clothes. Originality and quality are excellent. 9/10.
A perfume of love and hate, as its name suggests. It doesn’t smell like a stable or animal to me; it’s peculiar but not extreme. The honey, mimosa, and lily create a dense layer that blends with the leather and castoreum. It’s like two lovers moving from sweet kisses to passion and the heat of the body. It’s intense, linear, and powerful; one drop is a nuclear bomb that stains clothes. It has a vintage touch not everyone likes. It’s intimate, for those who understand the scent. It lasts days on clothes. It’s a work of art that changes your perspective. Top 3 of Francesca. Rating: 9/10.
My first encounter with Francesca Bianchi and its peak. A unique leather with vetiver and rose, simply unbeatable. Scent: 10. Lasts over 8 hours. Projection and trail are 10, noticeable from metres away. Versatility: 3, only for night and cold. Performance is brutal, two sprays suffice. Blind buy: yes. Total: 10.
If anyone smells sex in this, perhaps they never lived in London in 1858. I imagine those gentlemen would be lost all summer trying to find someone to frolic with. I suppose the Marquis de Sade is their only reference point.
I had my prejudices at first, but trying it changed my mind. It’s a dirty leather, yet not repulsive, with flowers and honey that sweeten without going overboard. Imagine a dense-filling cake, civet biscuit, and sandalwood balancing it all. It reminds me of Gucci Guilty Absolu but more wearable. It shines in cold weather and elegant situations. It’s intense, for experienced people. Rating: 7.5/10.
Smells like a dirty stable, with animalic and manure notes. It’s a chaotic blend lacking refinement; the house seems obsessed with cranking every note to maximum power. I understand some might find it sexy, but to me, it smells like a joke. It’s shrill and unpleasant, nothing like what they promised.
Imagine stepping on a caramel in the countryside, right on top of a dried-up cow. When you crush it, the hidden stench beneath the rind mixes with the sweetness. That’s it. That’s how ‘sexy’ this scent is.
Friend Fedmac79, for your information I have four Francesca perfumes I love, including Sticky Fingers and Black Knight. This without counting Overture, Terroni, Cuoium… People who speak without informing themselves should not opine, audacious ignorance. I have argued why I don’t like it, respecting those who do. You defend the perfume by referring to others… this is the level, some of us try to contribute to the forum and others…
FB are perfumes that need patience; if you stay with the decant from the shop or a single wear, you will never understand it. TLT is one of the best perfumes from this house, quite sexual and unisex, excellent for a romantic date with fresh weather.
After so long I wanted to try it. Is this what they all say smells so challenging? Don’t misunderstand me, it is not Invictus nor Armani Code, nor the killer nuclear bomb most say. It is olfactorily complex, but not unpleasant or like a dead cow. It is elegant at dry down. Opening floral animalic with aldehydes, at dry down it becomes a strong leather perfume with the sexuality of civet and jasmine. It is worn with density and good quality. I thought it would last more than 10 hours, but by three it already felt more like skin, or olfactory fatigue. I don’t think so, I was with people and they didn’t notice it strong. In summary, a very elegant and distinct sexual leather perfume unlike anything else. Scent: 7/10, Longevity: 7/10, Projection: 7/10. Recommended.
It is a peculiar scent; the performance varies by day. Some days very animalic leather, others animalic with floral and others sweet. I like all its facets. I don’t see a particular occasion to use it as it is very potent in terms of smell. For me, it smells like hedonistic and dirty sex, so I see it as an intimate fragrance for few occasions of use.
Its scent is almost identical to the Dermaglós cream sold here in Argentina.
I don’t understand how one can speak so badly of a perfume. It may please or not, but saying it smells like 💩 with a lollipop… For me, a perfume that is a jewel to another can be a disgust. To each their own. My husband doesn’t like it, I do. On me, it smells sweet, warm, like oud with a lollipop, and that is why I bought it. I understand it won’t sit the same on all skins, it’s like deodorant. Conclusion: long live Lover’s Tale.
The Lover’s Tale elicits diverse opinions. For some, it is very animalic and sexualised with potent leather. For me, it brings to mind classic French perfumery. It is not the most refined, but it is interesting, comforting, and tasty for cold climates. It is based on an iris accord with butter and ionones, present from the start alongside an ambered base of sandalwood, vanillas, and labdanum. Accompanied by peach and C-14 aldehyde which lifts the dense formula. The fragrance revolves around iris and amber, slightly leathery. Only in a very advanced dry down does the leather become prominent. I enjoy it more when it is very dry for that leather character, which stays in the background at first. The longevity is eternal, but I would like it to be more airy, as the opening shows up muted by the density. It could use a little tightening.
Valentine’s Day was the perfect day to debut it. I doubt anyone went better scented today to renew their ID. I’m working through the male discovery kit and Francesca has reset my tastes; I’ve never levelled up this fast. The quality standard has risen. On my skin, it smells like someone made up who approaches you, a scent sustained with a very sexy human smell. Other fragrances with that profile smell of civet, but this and Under My Skin are the only ones that blend on my skin as if it were my body odour. It’s not challenging, it has presence but is soft and balanced. Bottle safe, it’s the first one I put on to dress up. Tie between this and Under My Skin. Edit: for fear my nose was broken, I asked a relative. He liked it and said it smells clean. I feel more at ease, it seems I live in a parallel reality where this beast is ultra-wearable.
Finally have it in my collection and I wore it meticulously. I imagined it more animalic, but I have a nose accustomed to strong scents. It works in layers: first new leather or leather cleaner; then sweet, sexual, and spicy citrus leather from the castoreum, its most charming facet; and finally closes with an animal facet, as if you were wearing a cow on you. At first, it smells like a shoe shop, very wearable. After four hours, it transcends, sweet and spicy sparks emerge, charming. By the end of the day, it projects without issue and turns into cowhide with a stable background typical of The Lover’s Tale, not fecal like the oud, but in the distance. Day’s sweat soils the fragrance and makes the animalic facet more noticeable and less wearable. I don’t recommend buying blind if you barely get into niche perfumery, but if you love leather, it’s an excellent option.
Smells like a stable where a sweet fell into horse manure. I didn’t get to dry down because spraying that is horrible. The longevity is fantastic; I had to wash my arm three times and it wouldn’t come off. The excellent performance is another negative feature. Not even with another person’s money. Please explain to me how someone in their right mind wants to smell fecal. You lot have terrible noses.
I have no words to define this scent; it’s complicated but a whole olfactory experience: sexy leather, lily root, heliotrope, and very animalic. At no point do I detect fruity notes. It generates addiction and you don’t want to stop smelling it, although it doesn’t smell very rich, so to speak. It’s a very strange sensation. I see it as more masculine than unisex. I bought it blind and I don’t regret it at all; I bought four other works of art from FB. It has extreme longevity, projects a lot, people like it, and they ask you what perfume you’re using.
The Lover’s Tale is mainly a leather perfume, strong and talc-like. I don’t notice fruit or flowers, it’s animal skin. In fact, I have some boots that smell exactly the same. I don’t think it’s very animalic; I would use it in fresh weather combined with another perfume. It has extraordinary longevity, from another planet; I washed the t-shirt and it still smells and projects. I see it as very sexy on a boy. Ciao.
Well, to me it seems one of the most complex and integrated scents with the skin that exist. It’s everything they say: animal, leather, dirty, sensual, talc-like, vintage… to me it smells like a high-end Parisian brothel. You have to be in the ‘mood’ to wear it, once prepared, you allow the fragrance to do its magic. It integrates with you and becomes your skin. Only for people with personality. For those who smell it badly, I’m afraid you should rush to buy Erba Pura by Xerjoff and only know the concept of Oud.
Well… Where to start: I’ve been smelling niche for years and Francesca does something else, the pure essence of author perfumery. Trying her whole collection should be mandatory. The Lover’s Tale is the best representation of her DNA, but it’s not for every nose; they are challenging scents. It’s a statement of intent: I smell the stable, sweaty male skin after running, sex… but on my skin it works well. It’s a carnal, dark, and dirty scent. I detect mimosa and honey masked by castoreum, leather, musk, moss, vetiver, and sandalwood, creating sexual and animalic scents. Performance: madness. 3 sprays and I was a butafumeiro for hours; I could smell myself all day. It’s incredible. It’s not for any context, but to enjoy with a partner or to attract attention. Age 18+, adult scent. Unisex but on the masculine side, smells like alpha male. Climate doesn’t matter, it depends on the occasion. Aroma 8/10, longevity and projection 10/10, versatility 2/10. Price 2.35€/ml. Final score 8.5/10.
Opening marked by mimosa with green and anise touches that sweeten with honey. It stays sweet and floral, appearing waxy, talc-like, and peach nectar with jasmine accords. Then, a layer of hyper-realistic, smoky, and animal leather dominates everything, boosted by castoreum and musk. It’s an intense emotional declaration, one of the best leather fragrances, very realistic, with much personality and a unisex character.
Francesca doesn’t make perfumes; she is an engineer of feelings. The Lovers Tale didn’t seem challenging to me at all, not even the strongest of her collection; it’s more of a ‘second skin’ type scent that goes unnoticed on my skin. Remember: maximum 1 or 2 sprays to enjoy this collection. Singular aroma, 5-star longevity and trail, but low versatility and presentation. Ideal when you want to stand out without seeming like you’re wearing perfume. An alternative to Under my Skin. Do not buy blind, but it’s a 4-star total.
I bought a sample pack and say it’s one of the worst perfumes I’ve ever heard. Although I like leather in perfumery and have tried challenges I liked, here I smell like shit bathed in fruity syrup with great longevity. If you rub the garment, forget it for a good while; on a sweatshirt washed several times, the faecal and animal scent remained. Horrible. I already have many niche scents and I like subtle animalic ones (like in Vittoriale), but this makes no sense. Do not buy blind or let yourself be carried away by videos saying it’s sexual; it’s something you don’t want to see even on the street.
This perfume is made to violate your nose: at the first spray, they shout ‘LOOK HOW I SMELL!’. At first, it smells like petroleum tar, grease, and animal blood, as Francesca said it can smell like solvents and leatherwork. But once the beast calms down, a honeyed, earthy, musky scent remains where the animal note is tamed and blends with iris. In the end, after a few hours, it literally smells like a semi-perfumed dirty leather jacket. Verdict: I love it.
I started off disappointed with the decant, thinking the stable note was real and too strong, so I left it forgotten. One day, with nothing to wear at my second home, I took it out to go out with friends and it was love at first sight. It settled perfectly on my skin; now it smells like dirty, sexy, feminine leather. I consider it unisex, but on me it’s incredibly pleasant, and even girls with commercial perfumes asked what I was wearing. Now I want the full bottle: it’s sensual, ideal for cold nights and days, it turns heads, and its lovers’ story captivates.
For those who already know perfumery: it’s realistic dirty leather where you don’t notice fruit or rose. The longevity is eternal; it sticks to clothes, and even after washing, the scent remains in the hanging jacket for months. The projection is moderate but the trail is enormous; everyone will know you passed by. Buy blind, it’s a love perfume at 4 or 5 sprays. It becomes addictive and hard to leave. For lovers of distinct scents, it’s a 10/10 in quality, price, and trail.
Francesca Bianchi’s creation is spectacular. It starts with rough and strong leather, which mixes with the castoreum, a madness. This later disappears, not entirely, to give way to honey, and remains honeyed, leathery and dirty. There’s nothing that smells the same. I bought it blind, and I think it was my favourite blind buy. What a madness.
It landed on the collar of a white shirt and… Goodbye shirt… It’s a bomb even for staining clothes, haha. I love the scent. I don’t see it as so dark that it should be considered extreme. I see it as quite sweet and floral. I don’t understand who compares it to a workshop or something leathery (those who say that haven’t heard a Pure Steel or even an Under the Stars). Clearly for night, but I don’t see it as exclusively for cold temperatures. Obviously, it will perform better and be cozier in the cold, but I’ve also worn it discreetly on some summer nights and it went super well and I received compliments. I see it for very elegant and important occasions. It has that sexy and seductive touch.
As is well known and at this stage, I’ll add little. I’d say it’s a very provocative and carnal extract once you smell it and exhale the air. The perfumer wanted it so, and she achieved it as in most of her creations: evoking sensuality, morbidity like The Lover’s Tale. A very animalic, floral-sweet, quite accorded and woody-earthly perfume that becomes, over time (hours), creamy and talcum. Projection and duration… ‘what for’ let’s talk about that. It’s not necessary.
To be honest, this is a slap in the face. Leather, flowers and honey, an unbeatable trident. It’s not a friendly leather; it’s a perfume that can scare you at first, you get faecal smells, dead animal smells… but hang in there because at half an hour the magic begins, the flowers, the honey and the talcum touches start to emerge. It starts to sweeten but the leather remains the protagonist. An incredible leather, with performance that is the most beastly I’ve tried. TRY BEFORE BUYING.
Disagreeing with the rest, this perfume is basically a boldness made real, a fictional tale of sex, silence and sweat between the newly crowned queen of the palace at 30 and the virile lover who runs her polo club. It smells like everything you can imagine from that nocturnal, obscene, dirty, sinful photograph. A blend of a sensual female aroma that has danced and sweated until dawn, with a torrent of virility, of leathers, of mud, possessing every pore of her skin. Talking about notes is a difficult task, talking about sensations is even harder. What I do recommend is to smell it; it’s something unique that on the skin turns you into THE PERFUME that Jean-Baptiste Grenouille imagined in his most torrid fantasies.
It’s a complex scent depending on your olfactory background. Here we’re not playing with baby toys, but an adult playing to be responsible and mature. The first time you smell it, it’s strange; it’s not a usual scent, you don’t smell it around because it’s not made to please the masses; it’s not flowers or lemons, it’s a direct expression, without hiding, without asking permission or forgiveness, a whole declaration of intent. The important thing is to open yourself to feeling more than just smelling, the story Francesca Bianchi wants to tell and let loose the story that best fits her perception. Some say it smells like a stable, others like sweet, others like a night of passion. And yes, all that story is true, valid, because it simply seems like the story of a 359-page book where 80% talks about penetrating glances and subtle, sensual touches. Not the tender ones, but the passionate ones. Talking about the notes seems irresponsible and unnecessary… even knowing that many come to explore notes and profiles. But it’s complex to describe it from its most correct side: it’s subtle but bold, calm but violent, serene but perverted. It invites exploration for the wearer, attracts, magnetises. It’s a whole carnal declaration, A MASTERPIECE.
I don’t know if I caught it at a moment when I wasn’t receptive, but I’m on the Francesca Bianchi team, a polarising creator, and I’m on her ship… but this The Lover’s Tale leaves me a bit cold. The first time, I didn’t like it because of the peach; I felt it strongly. Today not so much, but it’s there. I think the density it usually presents overwhelms me when it introduces fruity notes, especially if it’s peach, which I could eat 2 kilos of in one go but don’t fit into fragrances. Here we have the typical leather, very carnal and animal, with a talcum note mixed with the peach, making the blend feel a bit lactonic. This point generates rejection in me. The first time I didn’t like it, now I’m neither for nor against it. In summary, having creations of hers that I love so much, this one leaves me in no man’s land, and better so, fewer needs. It lasts all day, projects a lot, is nocturnal due to its carnal and sexual nature, thinking about it, and isn’t very versatile. It has an addictive point in return, but I stick with others.
Sensual, seductive, provocative, lustful, lascivious, voluptuous, concupiscence, libidinous, lubricious.
I bought The Lover’s Tale by Francesca Bianchi some time ago for around 80/90€ for 30ml. It’s super intense and for me, it represents the best of the brand. As an author niche, it’s one of my favourites. It smells sexual, then floral, sweet and intense, an exquisite and carnal leather; the name fits perfectly. What’s incredible is how it varies on the skin: on me, the leather, sweetness and animalic notes are very noticeable and alternate for hours; on a friend, it accentuated the iris, becoming more talcum and fruity, and she was equally thrilled. Sprays: Autumn 1-2, Winter 1-3 maximum. I say 3 maximum because literally the day I sprayed 3, I went 5 or 6 hours with massive sillage and it was noticeable on anyone I passed. One time it was on my chest with layers of clothes, the others on the neck. I wouldn’t wear it on clothes because it would come off. On my dry skin, it lasts 12/14 hours, and if I sleep in it the next day, I still detect the aroma. The trail is notable for the first 5-6 hours. For me, it’s unisex, more for dates or special occasions. Would I recommend it? Without a doubt, and when it runs out, I’ll buy it again.
If everyone says it smells like shit, they’re sensationalists who know nothing about notes. There’s nothing faecal about the oud here; that comes from the castoreum, which smells of burrow, wood, a bit of zoo but animal, not excrement. Sticky Fingers straight out of the bottle is more faecal than this. Upon spraying, you feel sweaty leather, warmed by the sun, like an old, dusty suede jacket waking up with the heat. A dense rose is added. Up close, it’s an aggressive, cloying, resinous, sticky, and piercing scent, something I’ve never experienced before. An hour later, as it dries, the sweetness dominates but it becomes powdery, smelling of vintage makeup powder, probably due to the iris butter. I didn’t believe it was a beast because reviews tend to dramatise, but THIS IS A BEAST. One spray on the arm and the room still smells the next day; I showered with antibacterial gel and it was still detectable. Use moderation when applying. It’s not for everyone, but it’s an incredible and complex experience.