Rhinoceros Zoologist 2014

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Rhinoceros (2014) is a perfume by Zoologist for women and men and was released in 2014. The scent is leathery-smoky. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued. Pronunciation

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Main accords

Leathery

Smoky

Spicy

Resinous

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Coniferous woods

Elemi resin

Mugwort

Rum

Sage

Bergamot

Lavender

Heart Notes

Immortelle

Oud

Pine

Tobacco

Chinese cedar

Geranium

Base Notes

Leather

Smoke

Vetiver

Amber

Musk

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Paul Kiler

Ratings

Scent

7.2165 Ratings

Longevity

8.3140 Ratings

Sillage

7.9142 Ratings

Bottle

8.6141 Ratings

Value for money

7.021 Ratings

Submitted by multiple users, last update on 08.04.2023.

Interesting Facts

The scent was originally labeled as Eau de Parfum. In 2017, it was reclassified to Extrait de Parfum in accordance with the actual perfume oil concentration of 20%.

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12/10/2018

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Leimbacher

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Leimbacher

Top Review 17

Besoffskis Leather Necks

Rhinos are fascinating. Strong, heavy, but nevertheless somehow graceful, good-natured, self-confident. Feared yet cuddly, one might think. Definitely the heavyweights are pretty high on my all-time animal charts. Does "Rhinoceros" fit the massive horn bearers? I'd say yes!

Desert meets rain, hardness meets velvet, dryness meets juiciness - "Rhinoceros" is a great fragrance, exactly my wavelength. Rum and leather, courageously and variably combined, anything but usual or well-known. A fragrance with which the Zoologist company has quite rightly made a name for itself. I'm sure it would have been my first choice at the start of the brand. Although I love pandas... Paul Kiler has created a beige leather scent here, which fits perfectly to the leathery giants. And to many people with preference for leather flatterers surely also. He's a nice drunk. Used to be a pretty boy, now an old rabbit with worldly knowledge. His slightly pungent alcoholic note hardly disturbs me and gives him the wrinkles he needs to be believable. The Zoologist concept has always seemed like a sweet joke to me, but the scents I've had under my nose so far can only be taken seriously and they are as strong as their animal counterparts.

Flacon: naive and playful, but far from an experiment. Cool!
Sillage: a rhino in a porcelain shop
Shelf life: 8 hours the chubby one touches loosely through the pampas.

Conclusion: Rum kisses leather in the neck of a funny heavyweight - theme hit, scent nevertheless wearable, for leather fans a dream. It's a fine thing - despite weighing three tons. After getting up.

09/27/2020

10
Bottle 9
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Splitter

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Splitter

Top Review 19

A blind purchase becomes a signature scent

After a long time as a silent observer, it is finally time for my first comment. I have saved this one especially for this exceptional fragrance Rhinoceros was my first zoologist and a blind purchase based on description and grades alone. And he sparked my great interest in this brand. Sure, the individual animals and their habitats are sometimes difficult to define, even more difficult is to get concrete pictures into your head, which are equally realistic. But I don't want to go into that at all.

Let's get to the rhino.
I wear perfume on my arms and dare to apply two sprays of it without any problems. Then it trots up, the rolling creature. Powerfully recognizable, the almost pungent note of rum, paired with the citric note of bergamot and almost so intense that I lose my breath. But not in a touch of disgust or other negative feelings, but in awe and with expectation of what is coming.

Yeah, I know what I'm doing.
No sooner has the first breeze passed by than an olfactory symbiosis starts, which is inconspicuous and, as it were, impossible to overlook. The scent sits dry on me and in the room. Heavy and sedate it remains there. Like a grater, tobacco, oud and softwood floats through the air, as it were agile, and knows how to please. Every now and then a wind seems to blow in the theatricality of the rhino in the savannah, whirling up smoky dust. Not too strong to cover everything and yet strong enough to be clearly present. Even the leather note from the base is always present and resonates for hours.
This symbiosis lasts for 8-10 hours, during which time the scent slowly dries out until the rhino lies down to sleep and only the base remains. Dry, dusty sand, smoky breath, large pachyderm.

Yes, I can understand that not everyone likes this composition. But to ascribe it to the heaviness and complexity - not in the form of phases, but components - because of a rather older audience, I can't understand at the end of 20. Rhinoceros is a fragrance for courageous people who either rely on a brilliant appearance followed by a calm presence, or like to try out how old familiar components can be combined in new ways. It is for people who like to experiment and those who do not shy away from dusty dry scents. Because what Rhinoceros does, it does right. It is by no means soft, supple and round, but plays skilfully with its edges, which cannot be sanded down, but which also do not rub off everywhere. In short: I like this exceptional scent.

Maybe it is indeed a fragrance that you love or hate, that does not come across as indifferent.
But one thing Rhinoceros taught me is that sometimes blind buying is the best decision you can make

06/08/2020

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Chizza

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Chizza

Top Review 17

Rhino feeling for home

Rhinoceros is only my second zoologist and, to be honest, I'm not keen on getting to know them all, because certain scents don't appeal to me, no matter how well the concept behind them has been implemented. I found Rhinoceros exciting because of the leather in the base note, from the dino I already knew that zoologist can do something. Since then the Dino has been very popular with my son, but that's another story.

Now the bottling arrived a few weeks ago and test one was due. Wow, that was intense. For me it felt like chamomile and savannah, like drought and dust. Put away for now. Test two went more friendly, single notes came through, the leather was tangible but actually covered under a layer. Okay, matches the rhino, the skin is just covered with a light crust or dust.

It does not happen every day that a fragrance requires me to do many tests before I even have an opinion about it. Memoir Man is such a case for me, I like the beginning less, later it becomes great but still it leaves me helpless. That did not happen here but we had to take our time.
All the ingredients listed may be contained, few I could have isolated so olfactorically on my own, but in retrospect everything makes sense. In a way, it is analogous to the interpretation analysis of a novel. You can guess that Rhinoceros has rum in it, but it's hard to guess because we don't have any sweet rum here, it's rather medicinal and dull. An esteemed commentator wrote something about iodine gauze bandages and that is understandable. Because this rum is bitterly refreshed by bergamot, the sage gives the tart note that first made me think of camomile (more about this later), mugwort hits the same notch. Before the leather comes up, this dry and tart aura kills you, from the leather on it actually becomes very pleasant. And the leather doesn't work any more either.
Now a resinous sweetness is added, which is unmistakably derived from coniferous woods. It becomes a bit intrusive for a short time and then it becomes smokier. I don't know what causes the smoke, but I think it's more like dust that surrounds the rhino's movements. It will be some kind of smoking resin, which seems rather weak in its expression and is possibly supported by the tobacco. It smells a bit metallic, slightly reminiscent of lead, sometimes also of fading black powder.
From here on it is now difficult for me to name individual contents, only the cedar I think I can guess. Rhinoceros is still developing and says goodbye to many individual scents to a basic scent. From the cedar, at any rate, emanates the peace and grace that this animal can bring with it, despite its massive appearance. I had to read Immortelle and here I realized that this flower was responsible for my camomile-intention. It literally plays with you and this since second one. Every now and then the scent becomes more intense, then it recedes slightly, becoming darker yellow in colour with time. More intensive in smell, less strong in perception, that's how Rhinoceros works. The leather remains omnipresent, chamomile and dust alternate.
What can I say? Rhinoceros is now on my watch list of yet to be purchased fragrances. It will certainly not be used every day at potential purchase (well, it will hardly be a fragrance anyway) but here and there it will be. I find the topic rhinoceros territory successfully converted and above all also portable created. The leather is consistently there without changing much. Like the rhinoceros it is blunt so that the other scents can attach themselves and everything becomes one like the rhino with its environment.

10/27/2020

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Emphvtic

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Emphvtic

Top Review 14

Drunk, cigar-smoking pachyderm

I have already tested Zooloist's Camel, Elephant, Moth, Bee & Bat and Rhinoceros was the fragrance I found hardest to rate. I simply love Camel and Bee from opening to closing. I didn't really like Elephant, Moth & Bat.

The rhino doesn't want to please you directly. I had to test him several times because I found him really repulsive at first. In short: You have to give him several chances and not run straight to the sink if you don't like the opening.

When I got my bottling, I only smelled disinfectant and strong, smoky leather. I put the sample back in the cupboard and dealt with other samples.
Recently, however, I sprayed the rhino on my wrist and finally also around my neck. I got only bad feedback from all the people I showed the scent to, but he just wouldn't let go of me.

The top note is really extremely obtrusive and clears you out of the way. The mixture between the powerful rum and the citric bergamot makes you gasp for breath. However, it is by no means unpleasant or even disgusting for my nose.

The fragrance gradually dries and settles in the room. Heavy and always perceptible.
Every now and then you can perceive a light breeze of smoky sand, which again takes up the theme of the rhino and transports you into the glowing heat of the savannah with a light breeze. The leather base is always present and resonates for many hours.

Just imagine a rhinoceros crashing through your front door and settling down in your living room on the old leather armchair in front of the fireplace, demanding a glass of whisky from you and lighting up a thick Cuba cigar.

After about 10 hours the rhino has exhausted itself and apparently lies down to sleep. Until then, many hours pass, in which the scent becomes drier and drier.
The base then consists of the dusty sand of the desert and the smoky breath of the pachyderm.

It is absolutely understandable if you can't do anything with this composition, but for me it is perfectly realized and simply great. It is an exceptional fragrance. A fragrance that makes no prisoners. Either you like it or you avoid me.

Meanwhile a bottle of the 2014 edition is on its way to me (luckily I got another one) and I am very curious what the new edition of this year has to offer.

05/05/2018

8
Scent

Serafina

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Serafina

Very helpful Review 11

The rhino first knocks me down...

...at least that was my first impression of the rehearsal!
Oha! First, medical, tart, severe, overwhelming. I'll wait and see... Yes, resinous-green notes are very clearly spoken! Actually I like that...And indeed, after a few minutes I like to sniff the back of my hand! The scent is still a bit green-strong, but for friends of woody-resinous scents it has a very appealing charm. It also becomes a bit smoky and leathery, I like both. A forester in leather jacket in the deep forest, freshly cut trunks, later he sits down at the campfire - these are the pictures in my head about it. I don't think of a rhino in the zoo (or in the wild). The smell in the elephant house of the Leipzig zoo during a (visually quite positive) visit in January was enough for me...no, too real is not always great! A tiny little plastic note disturbs me a little at the end, otherwise I would have given 8.5.

A fragrance for brave women, but otherwise rather masculine. Unusual but exciting! Worth a test in any case!

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