As you can see if a bag is real leather or not?

I must say that in recent years can be found on the market of synthetic materials that provide the equivalent of the leather, and deceive even those who have some familiarity with the leather!
On the market are of leather waste that to make them beautiful undergo a reconstruction of the "flower" of the skin with polyurethane or other synthetic materials ... and in any case it is sold as skin even if the outside is plastic.
the 'smell of leather is quite unique ...
often, however, is associated to the skin 's smell of glue that is used to prepare the various flaps (leather or synthetic) glued together in order to facilitate the step of sewing.
here is that the 'smell of glue is the same for the leather bag in which the synthetic and misleading.

then if the bag the shop at a store that is only leather, inside the store there is a smell of leather and glue that saturated the 'environment and certainly does not help to recognize a nose a leather bag or not!

the system foolproof is to look through a flap of the bag where you can see the skin down (close to or below the zipper seams for example)
From the wrong side skin looks like a suede uneven, there is the "hair" of the skin
THE Synthetic from the wrong side has a fabric texture .. unmistakable ..

but if you want a nice leather bag (which is a skin full "flower") or that has not been treated superficially, you must recognize to the touch, you feel a sensation of wax that slides her fingers.
then another makeup and wet the skin on the flower with a little 'saliva (say it "sucks") obviously at a point a little' hidden purse because it may be that if it comes to skin remains' s alone.
if it comes to skin changes color after a short becoming darker, if it is synthetic or leather coated with synthetic remains unaltered the color ..