Imaginary Authors Untameable: Leather, Dust & The Wild Frontier

When perfumer Josh Meyer names a fragrance Untameable, you know it won’t play by the rules. This 2024 release from Imaginary Authors is a modern cowboy scent, equal parts leather, spice, and animalic energy, built to evoke the heat, grit, and solitude of the open desert.

The composition opens with leather, cumin, and tonka, immediately conjuring sun-baked saddles and dry wind. The mid brings a surprising twist: cactus flower and airy florals, adding freshness to the scorched landscape. In the base, animalic notes emerge slowly, warm, musky, and resinous, giving Untameable its primal edge.

It’s a scent of contradictions: green yet leathery, floral yet feral, refined yet raw. Josh Meyer describes it as “a modern vintage with spurs on”, and that’s exactly how it wears, nostalgic but alive.

Fragrance reviewers on Fragrantica call it “bold and unapologetic”, “a dusty saddle in bloom”, and “a throwback to classic leather scents with a desert twist”. Fans of Memoirs of a Trespasser and A City on Fire will recognise Meyer’s signature storytelling in scent, cinematic, textured, and utterly original.

Untameable straddles Leather, Animalic, and Green families, with warm Oriental undertones from the tonka and cumin. It’s rugged but wearable, perfect for anyone who wants their fragrance to tell a story.

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