Rhinoceros Zoologist 2020

Version from 2020

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A perfume by Zoologist for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is spicy-smoky. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Smoky

Leathery

Earthy

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Whisky

Basil

Pink pepper

Coffee

Rum

Heart Notes

Tobacco absolute

Frankincense

Leather

Sweet vernal grass

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Amber

Nagarmotha

Laotian oud

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Perfumer

Prin Lomros

Ratings

Scent

7.4106 Ratings

Longevity

8.592 Ratings

Sillage

8.090 Ratings

Bottle

9.091 Ratings

Value for money

7.160 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 12/02/2024.

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/01/2024

8
Pricing 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Smirky
261 Reviews

Smirky

3

Rhinoceros makes his presence known

Rhinoceros is the second Zoologist fragrance I've tried and for me it's a winner. First, the performance. It's definitely nuclear. Creates a beautiful scent bubble and leaves a decent trail. After wearing it for a couple of hours, I went outside and did some yard work. Sweated some but not a lot. Thought for sure Rhinoceros would be washed away. Nope. Although there wasn't much sillage left, the beautiful scent bubble was still there, and it continued on for a total of 8 hours before I took a shower to prep for the evening. Super strong.

On to the scent itself. One word - awesome. Three prominent notes for me, in no particular order, are tobacco, booze and subtle sweetness, presumably from the sweet grass. The fragrance is dry and masculine but not so dry that it turns sour or acrid. The boozy notes retreated after a couple of hours, but what remained was not a simple tobacco scent. It seemed to combine with the other notes to give an impression of a hot, dry savanna - sorta like a dusty, dry grass scent. And then suddenly, a stronger tobacco scent would make it's presence known.

Rhinoceros struck me as very versatile - can be worn anytime of the year, even on warm summer days. The scent is not thick, syrupy or sultry but rather light . Overall, very impressed and have added it to my full bottle shopping list. Zoologist and Mr. Lomros have a definite winner here. I'm going to check out some other fragrances by Mr. Lomros, I'm that impressed.

11/18/2020

10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Yharnam79
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Yharnam79

Very helpful Review 17

Smoking, drinking and a little bit on heat

Actually, I'm not really into reformulation of fragrances.
I thought it was stupid even back at Beaver's. With Bat it was different because it was about ending the collaboration with the respective perfumer. I was also split in two with Dodo and Rhinoceros, because I find both fragrances to be perfect in the actual formulation and wonder why they didn't simply choose two other animals as namesakes.

If the original creature still stood around in clouds of smoke, herbaceous and sweetish-biting, its successor goes completely different scent paths.
Rhinoceros (2020) starts out no less engaging and brisk, but it's not a burnt desert herb that hits you in the nose but a woody whiskey rum flag. And rarely has a blow on the nose been so good to bear!
Surrounded by full and strong coffee aromas and something herbal, almost ethereal, of which I have not yet fully understood what it is.
It gets darker in the early drydown. The rhino now shows leathery and smoky. And still quite drunk. And the pachyderm seems to have wandered through mud and mire. Mossy dark green mixes with the otherwise rather smoky, whiskey coloured scent.

In all its independence, I am always confronted with fleeting images that build bridges to other fragrances.
For example to Tobacco Oud, yes also to his rather dissimilar brother Tobacco Oud Intense.
Then the mixture of fuselage and smoke takes on an almost "poltergeistesque" form again, only to make way again shortly afterwards for the actual dermis, while chewing with relish on basil - standing in burning grass.
Although no vanilla or vanilla-like substances are listed, I also regularly imagine to perceive bittersweet vanilla beans. Very far away.
Because Rhinoceros is miles away from "sweet" - and that in both respects ...

To go back briefly to comparisons with other fragrances:
There are scents, (many, many scents) that smell to me like a mixture of a mix of scents I know. Some recently tested prime examples of this are Kobe (Xerjoff) or Imperial (Boadicea the Victorious), which smells to me 1to1 as if the respective light versions of Oud Wood, the Rochas cone and Black XS had simply been put together.
With Rhinoceros, my bridge-building was neither negative nor would I lean out of the window to say, "...smells like..."! All its nuances are skilfully built up here into a completely independent whole.
As if the pachyderm had just put together the best qualities from all the nuances and fragrances mentioned and then confidently wallowed in them.

All praise with one crying and one laughing eye.
As far as I was concerned, there would have been no need for a reformulation of the original rhino that I have come to love so much.
One could have given him the name of another desert animal for all I care.
But I'm not in it now and don't know anything about the reasons for the (in the case of Dodo also quite fast) reformulation with the two new zoologists.
Nevertheless: the fragrance is what it is.
Very, very strong

Rhinceros (was and is) a turf marker.
It also radiates a considerable amount of masculinity.
Dark-shimmering.
Self-confident.
The ripped leather jacket over the shoulder.
Smoking and heavily alcoholized.
And a little bit in heat

Let's get back to the end:

Very, very strong smell!

11/27/2020

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Leimbacher
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Leimbacher

11

Drunken pachyderms

While I only vaguely remember the predecessor (despite strong scoring), this "Rhinoceros" can start almost from zero. Which is good, because you don't always have to compare. Even if both are basically round rum scents, one can be more than satisfied with this reformulation (or reinterpretation?).

"Rhinoceros" (2020) has a slightly more lively and light-footed feeling than its ramshackle predecessor. An airy oriental, (even in everyday life!) very portable alcoholic. A sandstorm, a dune thickener. Bright, texture-rich, handy flowers combined with coffee grounds, rum and fame, with leather and tobacco, with juice and power. A noble fragrance, but without forgetting the normal Thursday. Rhino may soon be meino?! A little smoky, a little coked, a little used up. But then still with enough freshness and liveliness and brightness to get through the day. No nighttime scent exclusively. The younger, more streamlined version. Most reminiscent of "Bentley For Men (Intense)" in nischiger.

Flacon: not made of bullet-proof glass - but still nice
Sillage: amused to tipsy
Shelf life: 9 hours you let him nose

Conclusion: for my taste even more fine, airy and wearable than its predecessor. The rhinoceros from 2020 has rubbed off its horns a little bit without losing character. A sandy connoisseur. Sharper and more transparent

01/15/2021

10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 4.5
Scent

Schallhoerer
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Schallhoerer

9

Caught on the hop

Where is the hidden camera? I expect Guido Cantz to jump out of my closet at any moment and explain to me with his grinning face that I have just landed on "Verstehen Sie Spaß? Colleague Leimbacher was the decoy and has led me thereby behind the light.

Coffee grounds, rum, leather, smoke. You miserable bastard. You knew exactly how to lure me behind the stove. These are all notes that I love in my fragrances. But where exactly do you smell them? Or is there your imagination went through with you as you have read through the fragrance notes?

I smell over the entire course of the fragrance (from the first smell on the spray head to the opening to the drydown) only one violently prominent note. And that is damp hay or straw. I know I'm smelling the tobacco absolute there (or the accord formed from it), but this unfortunately smells to me like a mix of black loose tea and damp hay. The scent is perfect for those who have pet hair allergies but would like to keep a hamster or guinea pig. Grab it, here you can smell like your imaginary rodent's cage. I don't smell whiskey or rum (so no boozy note at all) or leather. And it's not that I don't know how a leather accord smells. But it's just not present here for my nose. Hence, my well-intentioned advice. Please don't give a damn about the comments, statements or impressions of other users here. Often I read here with the usual suspects "well then I do not even have to smell or try. Is probably nothing for me". But, that's exactly what you have to do to make sure you can trust the noses of the other Parfumos. Because if I did that, I would have to smell a rum-soaked tobacco-leather scent here. But it smells here only like the stable of Pinky&Brain.

The flacon as well as the packaging are great. Here, every invested euro makes itself felt. I have rarely had such a high-quality glass flacon in hand. Here Zoologist must not be accused of anything. Quite big lady tennis.

With the fragrance, however, I must admit that I went to you on the glue, Leimbacher.

06/26/2021

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Manogi
83 Reviews

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Manogi

9

Always follow your nose

Now it was the turn of the rhinos during my visit to the zoo. They were in the indoor enclosure, which I immediately entered. Immediately a pungent smell crept into my nose. This place must have been cleaned recently. The alcoholic cleaning agent was still in the air. I felt a little woozy. But the closer I got to the animals, the more it was displaced by a leathery scent, with a faint aroma of manure mixed in. I assumed that the leathery impression came from the animals' skin. However, it was not as exciting here as it was with the macaques and the elephants, so I left quite soon.

With this fragrance I do myself difficult, which is why the review took quite a long time. Not because he would be bad. On the contrary. But the top note is somewhat out of the ordinary compared to the others. It is as it reads, very sharp and alcoholic.

After about half an hour, however, this largely settles. Then the leather in particular comes out, accompanied by a smoky note, I assume from the incense. Together, this gives the impression described in the story leathery rhino skin with some dung.

In the base note dominates for me my beloved Laotian oud, which really comes out very well and seems authentic.

Overall, I like the fragrance very much, and again it fits the animal very well. Again, it has managed to create a certain animalic without animalic notes. However, it is not as complex as, for example, Macaque (2016) or Elephant. The longevity is good. The sillage could be a bit better. It remains quite close to the body.

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