Hyrax Zoologist 2018

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6.6 / 10 159 Ratings

Hyrax is a perfume by Zoologist for women and men and was released in 2018. The scent is animal-resinous. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production. Pronunciation

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Main accords

Animal

Resinous

Spicy

Earthy

Leathery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Elemi resin

Pink pepper

Saffron

Turkish rose

Heart Notes

Hyraceum

Styrax

Hyacinth

Whisky

Base Notes

Castoreum

Amber

Civet

Patchouli

Sandalwood

Benzoin

Tonka bean

Perfumer

Sven Pritzkoleit

Ratings

Scent

6.6159 Ratings

Longevity

8.9131 Ratings

Sillage

8.3132 Ratings

Bottle

8.8128 Ratings

Value for money

6.852 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 23.09.2023.

Reviews

7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/01/2020

9
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Leimbacher

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Leimbacher

Very helpful Review 28

Animanic

Who's that lying in the crib with his big bag?
Who has so much hair on his four stinky cheeks?

Why do you have such sharp teeth and narrowed eyes?
I can hardly believe you're my grandmother
How come that sleepyhead only fits you halfway?
And why do you still have half a calf between your teeth?

What died under your bed?
Why does it smell like rotting meat here, attractive and yet spoiled?

Is that chest hair or did you wet your leather jacket? Are you the one who releases me from this life?
Are you a rocker or just unwashed for a week because of the lockdown? Or do you collect sweaty armpit hairs in your trouser pockets?

You smell very stern, you smell very nice,
i could get used to the sight of you
So who are you, wolf or sheep? Or is it already too much to ask for that?

Animalic-fans watch out and smell the dust,
this furry cuddly thief has committed a crime of passion.

06/27/2019

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

Yharnam79

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Yharnam79

Top Review 17

Challenging vs fascinating, appealing vs repulsive, art vs fragrance

After browsing through the comments and statements, when I bought and first tested Hyrax, I not only had my doubts, but also reckoned with a faecal leg bordering on disgust.

In order to bridle the horse from behind (whereby this formulation is very suitable here), Hyrax - and here I agree with my previous speaker Ergoproxy 100% - shows what is technically feasible and possible in the world of fragrance creation. I also find the statement very, very suitably chosen to describe Hyrax as a "Haute Couture fragrance". Fragrance as art.
However, Hyrax also (intentionally?) shows what we find disgusting or repulsive these days, even though it triggers our very own receptors at the same time.
This statement refers a little to my headline, because this fragrance is really a challenge - even for trained and hard boiled noses!
The biggest mistake might be to test Hyrax with a powerful spray - even bigger the mistake of leaving the house with a powerful spray.
Less is definitely more here! In addition, the animal-faecal-looking note can be incredibly well contained. Because it's there - and it's neat!
Nevertheless, I do not find Hyrax to be an animal stinker or disgustingly smelling of excrement. Amber, Benzoe, Patchouli and Tonka have a lot to do, but they manage to keep the animal in check so much that the scent even radiates something pleasant. Somehow still horse stable and circus ring but with the thought not immediately with the excretions which horses or other circus animals drop. Rather Hyrax radiates something raw, animal and natural. With regard to the animal parts, I personally find Peau de Bête or Stercus much more difficult.
If you then hold on to Hyrax for two hours on the skin, the animal note has clearly receded into the background, the animals are, so to speak, in a cage. Hyrax then remains on my skin resinous-spicy-warm.
Something is there then in the base too, which reminds me enormously of Tom Ford's London but I can't figure out what or why...

I am sure and can fully understand that Hyrax is not and will not become a mainstream fragrance. However, one must keep it to the good that it - like many of its conspecifics - is excellently made.
However, to say it again - spraying only in well dosed form.
With an overdose, you hit yourself in the face with a horse's apple!

11/23/2020

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Manogi

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Manogi

Helpful Review 8

A beautiful animal

Yeah, what can I say? I like animal perfume. Marlou's "Ambilux" is my favorite. And "Hyrax" by Zoologist Perfumes is very close to it on my popularity scale
The prelude is pure animalism, but in a pleasant way. So it is by no means the case that one should not dare to leave the house when wearing Hyrax. Because the whole thing is underlaid with notes, which in the composition look beautifully floral to me and radiate a pleasant freshness, which reminds me of freshly washed laundry. Animal excrement and freshly washed laundry? That may sound contradictory. It is. But these opposites have been fantastically united here.

However, one should expect the animal dominance to last for quite some time. I estimate that you can enjoy it for about two to three hours. After that, the animal element gives way completely to the floral element.

The conclusion is clear: If you don't like strong animal notes, you should keep your hands off Hyrax. But whoever gets involved with the animal and gets along with it or even appreciates it, like me, will eventually show its gentle side. An extraordinary scent is waiting for you.

The artwork deserves a special mention in this case. Even the samples are lovingly embedded in small cardboard sleeves. Each perfume is accompanied by a drawing of the animal it was named after. I think the Schliefer, as the Hyrax is called in German, is particularly successful. I would like to cuddle the cute little animal on the picture best of all.

All in all, Hyrax is a completely successful work of Zoologist Perfumes and Sven Pritzkoleit

09/11/2019

8
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

Mischa99

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Mischa99

Very helpful Review 7

He's a smelly stinker.

After spraying on, a distinct fecal (Kotige) note embedded in a sweetish coat was to be "sensed". This scent mark also lasted a few hours, after which the scent developed pleasingly and a strong earthy/mossy scent, which I had liked very much, came to the fore. I was surprised to smell a pissy note on the "exit". I would like to claim that for lovers of animal scents everything that is feasible (or desired) is offered here. The Kublai Khan perfume had a much stronger fecal note, but the fragrance didn't have as much "detail" as Hyrax. Of all the animal scents I have tested so far, I find Hyrax to be the best. Therefore in my wish list the Khan is replaced by the funny Schliefer.

06/20/2022

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 9
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Nestorov
1 Review

Nestorov

Very helpful Review 4

How it should be

HYRAX
by Sven Pritzkoleit
This beauty of a fragrance carries the name of the primal animal called Hyrax. There are speculation that the closest relatives of this tiny mammal are the elephants, but no proof was found. Or rather, I didn't stumble upon any proof. There are several different kinds of Hyraxes but the focus of this fragrance is on the species known as Stone/ Rock Hyraxes. These simple creatures rely on the blazing sun for body temperature regulation, and that behavior plays an important role in the story described told by the fragrance, aka sun-bathing. But the most important thing here is that Hyraxes produce minerals know as Afrikan Stone or Hyraceum which is used here as an ingredient giving the perfume a distinct smell. And also, they're adorable !
I don't know what's going on with the modern perfumery, but there's a great misunderstanding where people are calling this perfume unbearable, difficult, heavy, daring. Sure, it's not an aquatic, it's not a "picking flower in the garden" type of scent. But, when we look into the history a bit, a lot of men's, and women's, wear had heavy, dirty, musky notes like civet and castoreum. So what happened? And this is important because this scent carries the legacy of the old, for me manly, scent of the past days where people had more balls to carry what they wanted.
Broad category of the scent profile:
Spicy, ambery, musky, animalic
Top notes: elemi, pink pepper, saffron, Turkish rose
Hearth notes: Hyraceum, Wiskey, hyacinth
Base notes: Civet, Castoreum, tonka bean, patchouli, amber, benzoin, styrax, sandalwood.
The fragrance starts off rather sharp, dirty, hiding nothing. It presents it self in the full light under the hot and blazing sun. The sharpness is from the elemi and pink pepper where they give of a green and sparkly edge to the fragrance. The saffron, rose and musk create this beautiful leathery, dirty animalic bed on which other notes will take shifts in presenting them selves.
Once the fresh and spicy opening settles, the saffron and rose step back, giving the fragrance texture joined by the powdery hyacinth giving off the impression of a dusty, dry, mineraly stones on which we lay and sun bathe with the little fellas. The musks are present all the way, from the start to the end of the fragrances lifecycle. During the mid of the scent, they step back a bit and introduce that boozy ambery hay like experience where you could quite imagine the picture of you and the little mammals. So comforting, so realistic. I'm most in love with this side of the and lucky for me, it lingers for quite a while.
When it comes to the drydown, the fragrance becomes quite daring again, the musks of Civet, Castoreum and Hyrax pop out again joined by rezony touches of benzoin, styrax and sandalwood giving of that sharp, cloudy, creamy, ambery paradise vibe. It smells so sexy, so inviting and yet repellent in the same time. You never know what you're getting into. So mysterious. So gorgeous!
When it comes to the time of the year when I would suggest you to wear it, I just have to say "Whenever you want". I wore it in the cold days, I wear it now in the hot days. It's perfect no matter the temperature.
The performance is beyond average, easily lasts over 12h on my skin. And projection is as it should be. And that's the most important aspect of this fragrance! Sven did such an amazing job creating such an animalic and daring fragrance but offending no one in your surroundings. Everything is just perfectly balanced. But if someone really is eager to approach you, they're in for a treat! (Haha)

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