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Orchid Mantis Zoologist 2025

7.8 / 10 63 Ratings

A new perfume by Zoologist for women and men, released in 2025. The scent is floral-green. It is still in production. The perfume is vegan according to the manufacturer.
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Main accords

Floral

Green

Earthy

Fresh

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green notes

Bergamot

Pear

Basil

Lemon

Heart Notes

Pink orchid

Jasmine absolute

Ylang-ylang

Queen-of-the-night

Rose absolute

Base Notes

Moss

Musk

Vetiver

Patchouli

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Inaba Tomoo / 稲葉智夫

Ratings

Scent

7.863 Ratings

Longevity

7.454 Ratings

Sillage

7.253 Ratings

Bottle

8.350 Ratings

Value for money

6.835 Ratings

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Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/12/2025

Sugarylemon
63 Reviews

Sugarylemon

Helpful Review 5

Floral & Green!!

Orchid Mantis smells like a garden filled with flowers and herbs. It's floral, but it's green, herbaceous, and slightly bitter as well (which I'm assuming is the basil). The opening also has a hint of pear, but that fades away as the scent dries down. The green/herby smell eventually fades away too, leaving more of just a floral smell. I can't really decipher the floral notes from one another so it literally smells like I'm walking though a giant field of assorted flowers (although my nose is pretty untrained and not the best at detecting individual notes, especially florals lol).

When it dries down, Orchid Mantis smells.... dirty? Like, it starts to smell like literal dirt/soil to me. It's also a bit musky smelling. I don't mind the dirt smell honestly, I think it fits in with the theme of the perfume.

Overall, I think Orchid Mantis is a really interesting scent! It has so many different notes and the scent changes so often while I'm wearing it. It definitely gives off orchid mantis vibes and it's one of the more "safer" scents I've tried from Zoologist. If you're into loud floral scents, give it a try!

12/01/2025

6.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

foreverest
10 Reviews

foreverest

3

Funky Fresh / Sloth Lite

Orchid Mantis explodes onto the scene with lush greens, tropical florals, and a prominent wilderness skank that I can't pin down. This reminds me far more of Sloth and Dodo than anything else from the Zoologist. It also reminds me a bit of Olympic Orchids' Tropic of Capricorn, but Orchid Mantis is the quirky, well-managed terrarium to that perfume's feral jungle. As evidenced by the plethora of questioning/negative reviews below, this perfume is definitely going to alienate a chunk of noses right off the rip.

Once Orchid Mantis settles down, it becomes a much more approachable and even cuddly floral-green-musk fragrance. There is a bright floral note that hangs on long into the fragrance's dry down - my guess is remnants of the Ylang-Ylang that hang on to the musk. I do slightly understand the Nightingale (my beloved) comparisons during this stage, as perfumer Tomoo Inaba really seems to gravitate towards lush floral-musky bases. However, calling this perfume similar to Nightingale feels incredibly misleading. We're talking about a 20% similarity during an hour-long stretch of the perfume's wear. The opening of Orchid Mantis shares nothing in common with Nightingale, and if I didn't know the two perfumes were made by the same person, I would never have thought to compare them in the first place.

My fiancee, a massive fan of green, mineralic fragrances, really loves this one. Me? I like it, but if I'm going jungle mode, I'm going full beauty (Carnal Flower) or full wild (Tropic of Capricorn). Inaba continues to be one of my favorite voices in the perfume industry, and even though Nightingale will probably be my favorite scent of his for quite some time, this is another wonderful effort that keeps me excited to see what he does next.

06/03/2025

8Scent 8Longevity 9Sillage

DKOH
36 Reviews

DKOH

2

Late 80's time capsule

the golden girls - shoulder pads - queen bitch - pantsuits - boss lady - exotic greenhouse with a raised conference room - red lipstick and severe contour - absolutely ridiculously huge hair - flowers too big for a bouquet - 98% humidity level - black wet soil hanging thick in the air - bees with so much pollen they fly drunkenly - drag queens

06/11/2025

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Antro
40 Reviews

Antro

2

humid greenhouse

Mantis opens up with punch of white florals and citrus and then there is this pear chilling in mids of all and i love the pear its big and juicy. the start is uplifting and bright. once it dryes down it becomes this humid and earthy white floral, and the pear dont forget it its has not left yet. this is the greenhouse part and its just amazing. and in the end you are left with this musky and ever so slight white flower base and let me tell you its good and it last and now you can forget the pear it has rolled away. to me this is not the queen bitch or super feminen scent to me this is well blended green and floral scent that can absolutely be worn by anyone and i mean anyone. it last and its projects. dont be afraid that this is ''too feminen'' i belive there is no genders to parfumes.

08/06/2025

wickette
10 Reviews

wickette

3

I dub thee "Power Floral."

Orchid Mantis is not soft like Cow; it is beast mode tropical floral. (I learned the hard way that one spray is plenty.) This opens as a humid, dense, sun-soaked floral that is hardly tamed by leaf and rice. Floral remains throughout but does soften to allow mossy, earth incense to appear. This is a hyper-realistic floral with a touch of animalic beeswax and musk and lots of warm, earthy spice. Orchid Mantis has attitude - roaring when you'd guess that it would stalk quietly on your skin. Instant love for the right occasion/season.

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Statements

24 short views on the fragrance

Baobaba

6 months ago

9Scent 5Longevity 7Sillage

2

Sour green fruity floral. Slight powdery latex sap. Light bright pear. Very balanced between fresh and indolic.
Elegantly alien but familiar

Binky

7 months ago

8Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

2

a beautiful floral with a strong initial blast of basil, citrus and greens. The basil is always lurking even on the dry down. Floral forward

TheDunkPapa

6 months ago

7Scent 5Longevity 6Sillage

1

Great (if pricy) feminine daily driver. Tastefuly sweetened pear+rose+jasmine supported by sour and uplifting aromatics on fluffy musks.

JohnMts

3 months ago

1

In my country we have a roach killer named Teza. In the opening and halfway to the dry down, it smells like that. Quiet overbearing.

ariel1524

5 months ago

9.5Scent 5Longevity 7Sillage

1

Amazing stuff, has got to be one of my favorite green floral scents

Biran

6 days ago

8.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

one of Zoologist finest creations, Mr Inaba nailed it here again just like he did in Moth, Flower bomb, earthy/Greeny ,my top 5 Zoologist

DJSaunter

6 months ago

Pow! Big floral hit at first, a nice sweet green after that. The story had me expecting a darker secret hiding in the base, but quite a safe Zoologist