Top Notes 
Ginger
Saffron
Immortelle
Heart Notes 
Gun powder
Geranium
Jasmine sambac
Unbuffered Toenail
Base Notes 
Fucus absolute
Sandalwood
Tonka bean
ScentSlave
254 Reviews
ScentSlave
6
I ordered this blindly…
… because I love Zoologist scents, and I am a collector.
It was JUST released last week (10/20/2025), and I received it 2 days ago. I could not wait to give it a shot, as I’ve read the reviews, and as stated above am a fan of Squid, T-Rex, etc.
This one is REALLY cool in how they executed it. I grew up in Hawai’i, and surfed half of the time. I lived on the “windward” side of the island of O’ahu, where the trade winds blow 10-20+ mph 300days of the year.
This meant that the beaches I frequented had the Pacific variant of Physalia (Portuguese Man-o-War) quite often. While I have heard that the Pacific version is smaller in size, and slightly less intense in pain, I’ve been stung NUMEROUS times. It is a unique feeling, unlike any other. It has an almost burning sensation, but it’s very much on the surface, and almost feels like it’s “just outside” of the skin. Painful, and localized, but it’s like a “floating” pain. As the burning intensifies, it also has a sensation similar to an itch. This continues for a good 10-20minutes (depending on sensitivity), and then as the burning begins to subside, there is almost a “swelling” type of pain in the glands that are nearest to the sting site (armpit sweat area, if you’re stung on the arm, for example). It subsides, leaves a mark so you see where the tentacles were and 2-3 days later it’s is the most ridiculously crazy itch ever.
Somehow they manage to NAIL this. The opening has a sharp, kind of soapy,“ginger-esque note and it sits there. It is very present, but it’s almost floating like a phantom, “on the other side” of the olfactory sense (similar to the beginning of a sting). It lingers this way, and then it grows in depth for the next 20-30min to a darker, almost Smokey scent (similar to how the sting sensation grows in depth, penetrating the skin) I think this is what they are trying to call “gunpowder”, but it isn’t quite sulphuric enough to be a true gunpowder note. This continues for the next 2-4 hours, but a note similar to, but not the same as Megamare begins to make an entry and creep in. It’s the “airy seaweed” part of Megamare I’m referring to. It’s nowhere near as loud, but to my nose, it is definitely similar. This note in the final dry-down becomes the star of the show. It lingers there, absolutely loud and present (like that intense itch that won’t disappear) It’s an EPIC, adventurous feeling fragrance experience.
If you don’t like Megamare, or Aqva type of oceanic marine scents, you’re not going to enjoy this.
I’ll say it projects to a good 4ft radius, has a nice long sillage trail (just like the real Portuguese Man-o-War tentacles stretch under the water), and a longevity of over 10 hours.
I am so glad I got this.
It was JUST released last week (10/20/2025), and I received it 2 days ago. I could not wait to give it a shot, as I’ve read the reviews, and as stated above am a fan of Squid, T-Rex, etc.
This one is REALLY cool in how they executed it. I grew up in Hawai’i, and surfed half of the time. I lived on the “windward” side of the island of O’ahu, where the trade winds blow 10-20+ mph 300days of the year.
This meant that the beaches I frequented had the Pacific variant of Physalia (Portuguese Man-o-War) quite often. While I have heard that the Pacific version is smaller in size, and slightly less intense in pain, I’ve been stung NUMEROUS times. It is a unique feeling, unlike any other. It has an almost burning sensation, but it’s very much on the surface, and almost feels like it’s “just outside” of the skin. Painful, and localized, but it’s like a “floating” pain. As the burning intensifies, it also has a sensation similar to an itch. This continues for a good 10-20minutes (depending on sensitivity), and then as the burning begins to subside, there is almost a “swelling” type of pain in the glands that are nearest to the sting site (armpit sweat area, if you’re stung on the arm, for example). It subsides, leaves a mark so you see where the tentacles were and 2-3 days later it’s is the most ridiculously crazy itch ever.
Somehow they manage to NAIL this. The opening has a sharp, kind of soapy,“ginger-esque note and it sits there. It is very present, but it’s almost floating like a phantom, “on the other side” of the olfactory sense (similar to the beginning of a sting). It lingers this way, and then it grows in depth for the next 20-30min to a darker, almost Smokey scent (similar to how the sting sensation grows in depth, penetrating the skin) I think this is what they are trying to call “gunpowder”, but it isn’t quite sulphuric enough to be a true gunpowder note. This continues for the next 2-4 hours, but a note similar to, but not the same as Megamare begins to make an entry and creep in. It’s the “airy seaweed” part of Megamare I’m referring to. It’s nowhere near as loud, but to my nose, it is definitely similar. This note in the final dry-down becomes the star of the show. It lingers there, absolutely loud and present (like that intense itch that won’t disappear) It’s an EPIC, adventurous feeling fragrance experience.
If you don’t like Megamare, or Aqva type of oceanic marine scents, you’re not going to enjoy this.
I’ll say it projects to a good 4ft radius, has a nice long sillage trail (just like the real Portuguese Man-o-War tentacles stretch under the water), and a longevity of over 10 hours.
I am so glad I got this.
Updated on 10/26/2025
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