Orchid Mantis Zoologist 2025

Bottle Design:
Jules Dinand, Pierre Dinand

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7.9 / 10 37 Ratings

A new perfume by Zoologist for women and men, released in 2025. The scent is floral-green.

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Main accords

Floral

Green

Earthy

Fresh

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green notes Basil

Basil

Bergamot

Lemon

Pear

Heart Notes

Pink orchid

Queen-of-the-night

Jasmine absolute

Rose absolute

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Musk

Moss

Patchouli

Sandalwood Vetiver

Vetiver

Perfumer

Inaba Tomoo / 稲葉智夫

Ratings

Scent

7.937 Ratings

Longevity

7.332 Ratings

Sillage

7.231 Ratings

Bottle

8.429 Ratings

Value for money

7.120 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 08/07/2025.

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7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/12/2025

Sugarylemon
60 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!

06/03/2025

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 9
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

DKOH
40 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

8
Pricing 9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Antro
6 Reviews

Antro

1

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.

06/12/2025

5
Pricing 4
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 8
Scent

Binky
17 Reviews

Binky

2

Beautiful Floral Grounded by Basil

Orchid Mantis has a lot of floral notes in its profile. That being said, I was a bit confused by the first blasts as the most prominent note was basil with a trail of pear and citrus. Where were the florals? After about 10 minutes, they made an appearance in the form of Rose, Ylang Ylang and Queen of the Night.

For those who do not know Queen of the Night, to many it can be described as a honeyed white floral reminiscent of Magnolia and Gardenia mixed together. Absolutely beautiful. That being said, basil is always lurking to keep this one grounded.

After Orchid Mantis settles, the floral notes took over, specifically the Queen of the Night with a hint of ylang ylang. On my chemistry, the musk also comes forward, but this is not surprising any my chemistry loves animal notes. It doesn't overwhelm the fragrance, but still lurking.

To be honest, on the dry down, this one reminded me slightly of Hummingbird for some reason. After researching it, I think the Queen of the night mixed with the rose and ylang ylang created a similar dry down. Especially as Queen of the night has a slight sweet honeyed scent. I adore Hummingbird, so I wasn't upset about it, but as I prefer Hummingbird, it made me long for it a bit as I prefer the sweet floral without the basil.

The longevity was moderate lasting around 3.5 hours on my skin and 5 hours lightly on clothing.

08/07/2025

10
Pricing 4
Sillage 8
Longevity 5
Scent

bouquetzilla
8 Reviews

bouquetzilla

1

smelled like 90s grandma cherries to me

I expected to like this one, but on me it had a strange badly-candied-cherry note. Like you know the chocolate covered liqueur cherries grandmas used to have boxes of in their houses, and you'd ask for one because you THOUGHT it was candy but really it was too adult and old fashioned for you and your mouth was like oooeeeerrrggg? That's how this fragrance ended up on me. The smell is like that flavor in your mouth. I have liked others from Zoologist and I really liked the longevity and soft throw, but I immediately put my sample of this one on the donate pile.

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6 short views on the fragrance

Wusubi 2 months ago

10
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Bitter, mentholated, a touch of juicy pear.
Jasmine-forward heart with indolic facets.
Gradually more humid; settles on a damp, earthy base.

3

Baobaba 1 month ago

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 5
Longevity 9
Scent

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

2

Binky 2 months ago

4
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 8
Scent

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

2

TheDunkPapa 1 month ago

10
Bottle 6
Sillage 5
Longevity 7.5
Scent

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

1

ariel1524 11 days ago

10
Bottle 7
Sillage 5
Longevity 9.5
Scent

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

1

DJSaunter 1 month 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

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