While some may say this smells like leather, I'd for one like to whole-heartedly disagree. As soon as I smelled even an inkling of this smell, my first thought went to me beating the crap out of an old keyboard that was giving me trouble. Ahh, yes; the first destroyed keyboard. It also smells like an old 56k modem, after a through beating when it decided that it wasn't "connected"; connect my ass....
It also smells like an old apple computer being beaten in with a baseball. Some people think of leather; I think of old technology being beaten.