Macaque Zoologist 2016

Version from 2016

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Macaque (2016) is a perfume by Zoologist for women and men and was released in 2016. The scent is green-fruity. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
Pronunciation

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Main accords

Green

Fruity

Woody

Spicy

Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green apple

Cedar

Red mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Galbanum

Frankincense

Honey

Jasmine tea

Rosewood

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Green tea

Musk

Tree moss

White oud

Perfumer

Sarah McCartney

Ratings

Scent

7.2135 Ratings

Longevity

8.1120 Ratings

Sillage

7.4123 Ratings

Bottle

8.6116 Ratings

Value for money

6.724 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 30.08.2023.

Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/22/2020

8
Sillage 9
Longevity 4.5
Scent

DerDefcon
124 Reviews

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DerDefcon

Top Review 14

This apple truly does not fall far from the tree

Because if you think you are dealing with friendly, warm wood and generally a fresh, green coat of paint, you are very much mistaken. Everything here is completely unfriendly, not inviting, but quite unique and therefore fascinating in its own way. The apple, a very popular fruit for various top notes in the world of perfume, fits into this special picture. But this is not sweet, not tangy, not tasty, but the exact opposite. In short, it is incredibly bitter and pungent, as if it had fallen from the tree much too early and without any maturity. Others may instead sniff an apple that has been living for a long time on mouldy soil and has taken on a more and more fermenting smell.
However, the scenario, whether immature or fermenting, should be of secondary nature here. Let's agree that we are dealing with an originally popular fruit that doesn't want to be popular here at all, that doesn't want to taste and knows how to fend off predators. In the end, I think it fits quite well that this apple with its peculiarities does not fall far from the tree. But please read on
Bitter galbanum emerges from the massive, almost black trunk and there is certainly not too little of it. It encloses our unripe or even fermenting apple lying on the ground.
But whoever thinks that the bitter end is over is wrong. Moss in abundance - something that is actually only known from the hardly existing primeval forests of Europe - covers the ground. There is no lovely, nice flower meadow here, and certainly no one to mow the lawn or to care for it. This is not a cultural landscape. This is a jungle - massive trunks, hardly any light, intimidating, musty, bitter-green and resinous-black and with events that remain hidden from most of us. For example, a few musk deer join in and lend this hitherto fascinating jungle atmosphere a not exactly subtle urinal note. Apparently, every effort is being made to keep human civilization out of here. Vegetation and wildlife work hand in hand, bring up olfactory heavy guns and so I finally decide to look for another apple tree - maybe one in a nice meadow, where apples can really be apples. Apparently I am simply too soft for certain species and their special habitat

06/08/2018

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

Yharnam79
63 Reviews

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Yharnam79

Top Review 18

Inner harmony - or - The silence high above in fog-covered treetops

Describing Macaque is actually harder for me than I thought - even though it has grown into one of my favourite fragrances within a very short time.
Green essences, (coniferous) trees, grasses and moss. Mist and damp from the morning dew. A rather cool and barely perceptible resin note underlines the wooded character, as does a wonderfully perceptible cedar note.
In the beginning there is something bitter-fruity in the background (for me, thank God, it doesn't smell like apple). This disappears in my case within the first 5 minutes and then disappears quite quickly and completely.
Honey again, I would have liked to have smelt it out for my part. I blame that on my olfactory sensation now but for me there is no honey note perceptible.
All in all I would call Macaque a moist, cool and dark green scent. Also as rather fresh scent, whereby I mean here in no way aquatic or even sporty. Not even a rudimentary citrine either. Rather like a cool forest lake or the moss around it soaked with dew.
Macaque has an incredibly coherent and uniquely coordinated effect.
I must agree with the previous speaker - it is not as if you wear the scent on your skin but rather that it melts with the skin. Sounds cheesy, but it is.
Also it radiates a pleasant serenity, rather even deep harmony and it simply feels good. Because this harmony is relaxing and at the same time somehow refreshing.
I would push Macaque, purely from the smell, rather toward man, can well imagine me, however, that it comes also with the one or other (self-confident) wearer magnificently to the fore.
Macaque stands out pleasantly, both from his colleagues in the zoologist line and from the fragrance trends of recent years.

Conclusion:
Macaque is a dark green, pungent fragrance. A calm and yet powerful, almost meditative and yet extremely present, invigorating fragrance. It radiates a pleasant coolness and an enveloping harmony.

...and great-wise he also transfers it to me when I wear it.

12/23/2020

6
Pricing 9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Leimbacher
421 Reviews

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Leimbacher

Top Review 16

Green is the future

"Macaque" is for now (until I eventually get the brand new "Snow Owl" in front of the smelling gun) the last Zoologist I test - that makes me a little sad. On the other hand, also a little glad that I'm finally through with the impressive set (which I'm now letting move on, near mint, for a small obolus the days on the forum). And with a bang at the end!

"Macaque" is a hysterical, high-pitched labdanum evergreen that oscillates between toothpaste, mossy glade, and aristocratic title. Great! Modern and classic in harmony. Forward-thinking and bold, crashing and colossal - yet honoring the past and decorum while. Green tea in hyperactive. Labdanum turned into "brightness on 100". Green apple as lure and launch explosion. All spiky and yet as if of a piece. "Y" meets "Pulp." Without question, another fave of mine from the Canadian Zoo's lineup. A sprawling and diverse zoo that I'd treat myself to an annual pass to any day in real life!

Flacon: affeingeil is different. Ugly but still much "more different"
Sillage: stable performance
Durability: goes almost towards double digits - for a "signature worthy" noteworthy and another plus point

Conclusion: a luminous greenling full of moss and manners. A monkey of the world, a monkey with money, a monkey pleases

06/12/2021

Splitter
50 Reviews

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Splitter

Helpful Review 13

Strike before he disappears?

Somewhat unprepared and surprisingly I was reminded the other day that the monkey will have offspring and at the same time disappear into retirement. And at the same time, there is still a sample in my quite full drawer - I have the habit, if I like something from a house, to try everything that the house has to offer, but also usually to get several fragrances of a house in original size in my collection. And here also still have to decide under real pressure... puh...

So vial dug out, picked me a free evening to test but already sprayed on a card. And then something strange came to me. On paper, the scent seemed dirty to me, very spicy and not differentiable. Fruity seemed there nothing and somehow he wanted to become neither earthy, nor woody. But paper is patient, so put away and brought out again and again. He would not have convinced me so but. Too much was here an attempt of a 'male' shower gel to recognize.

So on me with the oils. And with the fragrance also rises a very definite question: Do I want this?
Not at all, but on me.
Macaque definitely comes across far better on my skin. The opening is really overwhelming. It's green. It's woodsy. It's spicy. It's wild. And dirty. And clean.
There's a really authentic cedar there, but it seems special because the apple plays in. But I like it much better when the tea joins in, making the whole seem very elegant.
Only much later starts still something tart-sweet, which then lasts together with the tea and moss until many, many hours later.
And here comes the point: Macaque is beautiful, really beautiful. And at the same time somehow as if I had already smelled it umpteen times somewhere and also again not. On me just definitely not but that shows a look at my collection probably very obvious.

Okay, so I have here a leisurely walk through a very lush, tropical forest. Where so many perceive fruit, however, I cannot comprehend.
This monkey here is an elegant companion for warm and too warm days. He has with his very green notes also a certain exceptionality, because the fresh and tart green is not combined with the usual, extremely overloaded and yet boring notes, because dead sniffed notes.

Probably I'm still times curious about the future versions and then report back

06/06/2021

8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Manogi
83 Reviews

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Manogi

The monkey who wanted to give me an apple

During my visit to the zoo, where I also met the little Elephant, I of course also looked at the apes, because I am also particularly fond of them. Today the rhesus monkeys were in the outdoor enclosure. When I approached them, it was feeding time. There were apples, the sour smell of which immediately got into my nose. This smell mixed with the wet earth, because it had rained. And of course the monkeys themselves were also emitting their typical animal scent. I watched the animals for a while as they squabbled over the food. But then something special happened. One monkey looked at me for quite a while. I looked back and wondered what was going on in the little guy's mind. Then suddenly he grabbed a piece of apple, jumped to the edge of the enclosure and held it out to me. Of course, because of the distance, it was impossible for me to accept the apple. I smiled and tried to convey to him with gestures that it was not possible. After a while he moved away, obviously disappointed. I was a little sad that this attempt at contact could not succeed, but knew it was best for me and the animal. So I moved on to the next enclosure.

Thanks to @Alexxander, I'm able to test some Zoologist fragrances I'm still unfamiliar with at the moment, including Macaque (2016). Normally I find fruity fragrances dead boring. They don't excite me at all. Here it is different.

Macaque (2016) is fruity, but not in the usual way. First of all, the apple that dominates everything here is very tart. Moreover, I have the feeling that it has been sitting for a while and is no longer quite dewy. On the contrary. He seems musty.

In this sense, this Zoologist, similar to the Elephant, is also animalic without wanting to be. For none of the notes, which are somewhat submerged except for the mandarin next to the apple, speaks for animalic. But I can certainly imagine this fragrance in the scene described above, which is fictional, but based on similar experiences with other apes.

Longevity and sillage are good here, unlike Elephant. I hope that the reformulation, which there will probably be, as I read here, will not change the character of the fragrance too much. Because again, it fits perfectly with the eponymous animal.

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