Neandertal Them Neandertal 2020

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7.3 / 10 65 Ratings

A perfume by Neandertal for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is leathery-green. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Leathery

Green

Woody

Floral

Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Carrot seed Iris

Iris

Grapefruit

Lavender

Kelp

Heart Notes

Magnolia

Hinoki cypress Neroli

Neroli

Base Notes

Styrax

Ambrette

Musk

Ambergris

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Euan McCall

Ratings

Scent

7.365 Ratings

Longevity

7.449 Ratings

Sillage

6.947 Ratings

Bottle

8.649 Ratings

Value for money

7.131 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 07/22/2025.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/13/2023

Mlleghoul
452 Reviews

Mlleghoul

5

aromatic expression rendered silent.

“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.” What perfume were they wearing? Kurt Vonnegut Jr. never really got into that in his satirical dystopian science-fiction short story “Harrison Bergeron,” but I suspect it was Them, by Neandertal, a fragrance distilled to its most minimal, stripped-down DNA. A radical exercise in simplicity, a deliberate erasure of complexity. It’s very essence, a complete and total absence. A void, a vacuum, a nothingness. Olfactory egalitarianism in a bottle, where no note dominates, not a single note is even discernable. Wear it not to make a statement, but to embrace the scent of unadorned equilibrium—a radical olfactory utopia where no note rises above the others, and every aromatic expression is rendered equally silent.

06/10/2025

ClaireV
958 Reviews

ClaireV

2

Foggy beach stones

Oh, the grappa and Fairy washing up liquid sting of pure orris root tincture! I love how, when used in more generous quantities than the standard dribble tapped out with a fingernail into niche perfumes to justify an obscene price tag (Floretiiiiinnnnne irisssssss), this buttery but bleachy rhizome always manages to bring in the desaturated cool grey-pink colour canvas of Scandinavia – even if what the perfumer had been going for was Italian sunshine or Russian leather. Orris will out. Luckily, we have a Northern European perfumer (Euan McCall, a Scot) going for a cool, foggy interpretation of orris root, so the Scandi colour palette works just fine.

Orris root is an interesting material because, to me, it is a mixture of high and low, which means that it smells in equal parts like a fine leather glove and like the rooty sting of moonshine brewed by a Polish potato farmer. An elevated root cellar smell. Part of the reason that Them works because the perfumer understands this element of the material and surrounds it with other high-low accents. So, we have a green, scratchy salt note rubbing up against an ambrette material that feels luxuriously cloudy (a drop of Pernod in water), and a vaporous leather note slowly losing its initially screechy, toxic edge as it is folded into a much finer, softer ‘cuir’ along the same lines as Cuir d’Ange (Hermès) or Cuir X (La Parfumerie Moderne).

It is also an outdoors-to-indoors kind of perfume. It starts in the cool, foggy outdoors (Iris Silver Mist territory even) before slowly switching the scene to a posh art gallery full of spot-lit ‘found art’ sourced from nature, like long, silvery hunks of hollowed-out driftwood, polished stone, dried seaweed, salt, leather – the type of beach-cast objets that a collector might pay thousands for. There’s an awkward moment in the transition that smells a little bit sweaty or BO-ish, but it’s brief enough for me to pass it off as my imagination (or perhaps a momentary concentration of something evil in the iris material used). The small flashes of furry warmth and leather underbelly briefly bring to mind Slumberhouse Sibet, but no, Them is green, salty, and almost aqueous in a way Sibet is not.

11/20/2022

Saturnalis
36 Reviews

Saturnalis

2

living leather

leather as warm, still-living flesh. anointed in white-griege clay, dried roots and herbs, crusted mineral crystals, braids of seaweed. multifaceted woody and floral tones emerge, slip beneath, surface again, bringing different aspects of cleanliness and sweetness. an environment yet also alive, breathing. stays close to the skin but endures.

03/20/2024

Katzevogel
49 Reviews

Katzevogel

2

Trust In Medicine

Something about this is so compelling to me! The scent overall is clinical, it has the feeling of being almost antiseptic when first sprayed. Then the leather peaks through, not rough or raw, but strangely supportive. There's a calmness here, almost a trust, like of going to the doctor's office when you're sick and knowing that everything is clean and sterile.

12/28/2024

CloudsAround
33 Reviews

CloudsAround

1

Plastic fantastic

I don't know what I was smelling when I first got a sample of 'Them' but I kept on sniffing. Okay, so what I am getting is... a plastic container with a pliable lid. Also maybe an office in Japan? This does not sound appealing but it totally is, to me at least. I have to smell this all the time. The 'sister'-perfume 'Us' is also a miracle of complexity and together they make an intriguing (but pricey) couple). Euan McCall has done something great here.

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