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Neandertal Us Neandertal 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

Bergamot

Black pepper

Elemi resin

Eucalyptus Orange

Orange

Pink pepper

Heart Notes

Cardamom

Frankincense

Geranium

Rose

Base Notes

Cade juniper wood Vetiver

Vetiver

Cypriol

Hyraceum

Labdanum

Tree moss absolute Musk

Musk

Oud

Sandalwood Myrrh

Myrrh

Perfumer

Euan McCall

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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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/26/2025

6.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

valhelsingv
201 Reviews

valhelsingv

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.

11/22/2025

10Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Leevancleef
11 Reviews

Leevancleef

1

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.

12/28/2024

CloudsAround
33 Reviews

CloudsAround

1

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!

07/24/2021

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Chizza
362 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 24

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(?).