The smell of new leather!

[Brownmare]

Not much point to this thread other than to say, having treated myself to some new tack and now sitting in the kitchen inhaling the lovely smell, I think new leather has to be up there with a barn full of new hay on the Best Smells in the World list. Mmmmmm!!!!

 

[Baywonder]

Totally agree with you @Brownmare ! My DH smells of leather all the time......

The same goes for tack rooms, hay, straw and just horses in general!

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

I'm not sure about new leather but I do love the smell of a barn full of hay, and the soft bit on the side of their muzzle.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Not much point to this thread other than to say, having treated myself to some new tack and now sitting in the kitchen inhaling the lovely smell, I think new leather has to be up there with a barn full of new hay on the Best Smells in the World list. Mmmmmm!!!!

I love that smell, too. I made a little leather key fob out of bridle leather so I can have a little hit whenever I want.

And often, when I take out the bins in the evening, the smell of the horses at the two yards across the street, or the one in the neighbour's garden, drifts over on the breeze...

 

[Brownmare]

I love that smell, too. I made a little leather key fob out of bridle leather so I can have a little hit whenever I want.

Genius idea! Why have I never thought of this?!

 

[rextherobber]

When I was a child, there was a proper old saddler working in the town, used to walk by his shop on the way to school, and the smell takes me back...

 

[TulipTilly]

haha, top smell! Memories for me too of cleaning tack as a child. Love the key fob idea!

 

[cremedemonthe]

My workshop has around 20 full hides in it at any one time so people who like the smell of leather who come in to it are happy to stand there for an hour inhaling the aroma!
Oz

 

[sbloom]

I stopped being able to smell it about a year in to becoming a saddle fitter

 

[Keith_Beef]

My workshop has around 20 full hides in it at any one time so people who like the smell of leather who come in to it are happy to stand there for an hour inhaling the aroma!
Oz

I've not been to see my leather supplier for almost two years, and I miss it. A room of around 36 square metres with shelves two metres deep along two walls, floor to ceiling, with all kinds of hides laid flat on them, and a splitting machine with a bin full of scraps next to it.

 

[Brownmare]

I stopped being able to smell it about a year in to becoming a saddle fitter

That's appalling. You should be able to claim compensation for that kind of trauma ??