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Neandertal Us 2020

7.7 / 10 72 Ratings
A popular perfume by Neandertal for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is smoky-green. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky
Green
Spicy
Woody
Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
BergamotBergamot Black pepperBlack pepper Elemi resinElemi resin EucalyptusEucalyptus OrangeOrange Pink pepperPink pepper
Heart Notes Heart Notes
CardamomCardamom FrankincenseFrankincense GeraniumGeranium RoseRose
Base Notes Base Notes
Cade juniper woodCade juniper wood VetiverVetiver CypriolCypriol HyraceumHyraceum LabdanumLabdanum Tree moss absoluteTree moss absolute MuskMusk OudOud SandalwoodSandalwood MyrrhMyrrh

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Ratings
Scent
7.772 Ratings
Longevity
8.057 Ratings
Sillage
7.759 Ratings
Bottle
8.659 Ratings
Value for money
6.840 Ratings
Submitted by OPomone · last update on 11/28/2025.
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valhelsingv

201 Reviews
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A younger sibling of Poltergeist by Heretic
I am not even joking, this fragrance is a younger sibling of Poltergeist by Heretic! The same aromatic BBQ scent, just milder! I sprayed it on my arm, smelled it, and immediately exclaimed: I KNOW THIS! Haha, I expected anything but not the familiar BBQ ghost smell that I have tried on more than one occasion. I keep sniffing my wrist in disbelief, it's crazy how similar they are...

Aromatic smoky BBQ scent, no more, no less.
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Leevancleef

11 Reviews
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Wild. Ancient. Grounded.
Us feels like standing in a forest after a small fire fades, leaving warm smoke in the air.
It opens with a spark of bergamot and orange, blended with spicy notes of black pepper, pink pepper, and cardamom.
Then a soft incense rises with a gentle touch of rose,
and finally it settles on smoky woods and musk, with vetiver and oud adding a primal, natural, and deeply grounding character.

I’ve tried most of Euan McCall’s perfumes, and I consider Us a true masterpiece of his craft, especially for its smoky character that gives it a unique and powerful presence. without ever smelling harsh or offensive.
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CloudsAround

33 Reviews
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Yes, campfire, but more!
'Us' really grew on me. First I only smelled the campfire, and was sort of meh about it, but then it was like a door opened and I got shown new depths. These depths were also camp-related: I smelled some citronella oil to deter the mosquitos, and also some Dettol Liquid that was mixed in the water I had to wash my hands with, back at camp in the nineties. Was this healthy? No idea.
So 'Us' evokes feelings of summer, of the outdoors, of cosiness and of things to come. It is the 'sister'-fragrance of 'Them', which I also really like, and they are polar opposites, but alike in the sense that they both slowly pull you into a world. Go Euan McCall!
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Chizza

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Memories of Long-Past Eras
Recently at the museum, there was a special exhibition about the Neanderthals. This included a guided tour upon request, and I gladly let myself be entertained by the program. Replicas of furry hunters with archaic spears were on display, wild creatures - not just the Neanderthals. I have always been fascinated by the roughness of long-past eras, somewhere also the roughness of nature, like the wildly growing tall grass, for example. The special thing about this tour was that they also incorporated scents. From the scene emerged a sweet, intense smell of grass: vetiver. Even though this was not necessarily authentic regionally, the versatility of this plant was certainly impressive.

“...and here we found mysterious cave paintings created by a tribe of Neanderthals, which was ruled by the so-called Tree King, who died with the end of his reign. Tragic circumstances led to this.”
“What happened?”
“Well, this specific tribe had to wait for the chief to mate before they could reproduce. Unfortunately, the chief - according to the inscription, a Floid - suffered from dendrophilia. So there were no offspring.”
“That...is peculiar...”
“Yes, they even tried with women dressed as trees, but Floid noticed this. It is very unfortunate because at his time, this people was regarded as the people of perfume arts. They also created this, which you perceive olfactorily, extracted from an ancient flask.”

I inhaled thoughtfully, intrigued. It smelled of lush vetiver fields, yet not harsh. Rather lightly smoky and juicy. As if a part of the vetiver had been used as incense, and this hint now clings to the grounded and slightly moist vetivers. This hint, this counterpart to sacred incense, continues to drive forward, impressions of fur-clad hunters and men marked by hunting in the rough wilderness break cerebral ground. The vetiver seems to glow, and even though many other ingredients resonate, the center is formed solely by this useful plant.
It now has a slightly peppery quality, somehow sublimely zesty, very distinguished. The freshness also seems to be evoked by eucalyptus, which must have been very strange back then. This tree-loving chief must have had extraordinary resources at that time.

“You seem to be really lingering in the scent, young man!” said the lady who was leading the tour.
“Yes...indeed. This scent is extraordinary. How is it even possible that we still know about it today? In the cave paintings, I only see a man with a crown who seems to be cuddling with trees. And more, but luckily that is not detailed.”
“Well, as far as we can reconstruct, the tribe members seem to have created four different scents, crafted by this Floid. These spread everywhere through mixing with other tribes of Neanderthals. Thus, remains of skeletons often included not only stone spearheads but also stone, partially still sealed flask-like vessels. These contained scents or rather reminiscences, remnants of those very scents. Fascinating, isn’t it?”
“And how. And how....”

So I reveled in the development of this scent, which increasingly became incense, acting ambivalently due to the added, smoked resins. Depth was gained through the scent of moss-covered woods of various tree species. In such mixed forests, this tree friend was at home, the previously subtly fragrant fur was already taking on the olfactory green. Everything became forest, and one became Floid(?).
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11 months ago
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Real scent of fireplace in a woody forest after a rainy day. Smells like clothes, after you sat the whole evening near that fireplace
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1 year ago
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A barbecue in a pine forest.
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Eucalyptus Starry Sky
Powerfully glowing
Under consecrated
Resin-wood shadows
Pepper contours
Cool vetiver roots seem
Us and Them...
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Sharp morning air
like eucalyptus breath
brushes the remnants of yesterday's fire
surrounded by fresh trails
that get lost in root grasses
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Cool valley
Early lights meet
Sharp herbal dew
One eats citrus fruits
Then follows fresh animal tracks
Over green earth and roots
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Like life in a cave: Hyraceum paints animals on the wall, pepper scratches, smoke teases, Cypriol-leather warms: still all cozy.
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In the Neanderthal, vetiver is grown in abundance. It feels fresh, multifaceted, and peppery. There's a hint of a furry hunter in the mix.
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2 years ago
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Contrasts in harmony
Green freshness
meets
smoky foundation
creating freedom like never before
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eucalyptus phoenix
the breath of life glows citrus green
peppery-energetic wings beat
waves of incense
until the end in vetiver grass
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This scent is green, smoky, and has an animalic touch. I usually don't like that, but compared to the other three fragrances
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