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Rhinoceros Zoologist 2020

Version from 2020

7.6 / 10 160 Ratings

A popular perfume by Zoologist for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is spicy-smoky. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production. The perfume is vegan according to the manufacturer.
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Main accords

Spicy

Smoky

Leathery

Earthy

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Whisky

Basil

Coffee

Pink pepper Rum

Rum

Heart Notes

Tobacco absolute

Frankincense

Sweet vernal grass Leather

Leather

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Nagarmotha Amber

Amber

Laotian oud Oakmoss

Oakmoss

Patchouli

Perfumer

Prin Lomros

Ratings

Scent

7.6160 Ratings

Longevity

8.5132 Ratings

Sillage

8.1132 Ratings

Bottle

8.8126 Ratings

Value for money

7.190 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20 · last update on 12/08/2025.

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/01/2024

9Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Smirky
483 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.

12/19/2024

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Sparrinsky
46 Reviews

Sparrinsky

1

Big strong manly strong man, but make it deluxe

I had mixed expectations coming in. People said this smelt like a stable, but I had liked it in my paper test. I tried 2 sprays and immediately got whacked with a burst of coffee, whiskey, tobacco, and greenery that was unexpected but welcome. I have never been hit so hard by a first spray and I felt self conscious exiting the bathroom due to the intensity of the smell.

As it dried down, however, it morphed into a deliciously exquisite smell that smells of incense, leather, and tobacco, oud, and patchouli, that was just so manly. It felt like I had came out of a bonfire into a cigar club. I found myself enjoying the fragrance all day long and reapplying in the evening. It is "classic" and "outdated", but it is amazing at doing what it wants to do.

As strong as it was, the performance was not quite matching – it lasted less than its projection might’ve led me to believe, but still an easy 8+ hours.

I cannot recommend this fragrance enough if you are someone who is OK with standing out and projecting a very classic, gentlemanly aura. Might save up for a birthday present for myself, although that extra $35 compared to other Zoologist juices is felt.

03/03/2025

10Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

ScentNebula
52 Reviews

ScentNebula

1

Violin rosin and honeyed tobacco with an aromatic twist

My opinion of this fragrance has evolved dramatically from when I first tested it to now.
When I first smelled it on paper, I thought I didn’t like it. I smelled exclusively wood varnish, nothing else. This is typically how I perceive resinous or woody fragrances at first, so I did make a note to myself that “wood varnish scents often become beautiful on skin”. Then, even on paper, the scent began to evolve, becoming fresher and lighter. I still wasn’t completely sold, however. How would this behave on skin? Would the rather overwhelming, harsh opening be softer?

Well, Rhino has now skyrocketed to the top of my wishlist. On my skin, it starts off intensely resinous but in a beautiful way, exactly like violin rosin, with a touch of pepper (this is the first time I’ve smelled “pink pepper” that actually smells like real pink pepper), basil adding a dark herbal aromatic note, and a bit of whiskey. The dark aromatic/resinous mixture reminds me quite a bit of the heart of Ambre Sultan - a sticky cistus/amber. As the scent develops, something faintly smoky, incensey and church-like enters the mix: a very subtle frankincense. To me, this is the only “smokiness” in Rhino. There is no cigarette smoke here, only a little incense. The tobacco is dry tobacco leaf, not burning tobacco.

During the “violin rosin” phase, the scent is very strong, but this is relatively short-lived: the sillage drops right down along with the resinous notes, and a gorgeous fresh, sweet tobacco with a kind of floral honey-ish facet (probably from ylang-ylang) emerges, along with a dry grassiness. I would describe this next stage as shockingly fresh, given the heavy resins that came before it. There is still a slight resinous and incense note, but it’s softer and in the background. The whiskey remains, but it never feels dominant.
Then, curiously, in the drydown there is a return to the sticky aromatic resin scent. Freshness - gone! Twas a fleeting breeze carrying the smell of dry grass and leaves, and now the air is still again. As much as I love resins and incense, I wish the fresh breeze phase had lasted longer; this could have been my perfect tobacco if only it had stuck around.

I find this scent both confidence-boosting and comforting. It is strong, it is masculine, it is assertive, but there’s also this warm familiarity to it - at least for me - that feels like a cosy blanket. Regarding the sillage, I found that this fragrance didn’t begin to consistently project at rest until about an hour after applying it, but from that point onward it is very strong.

I actually rather agree with a reviewer who said this is a “hot weather scent but not traditionally”. Often a scent with this kind of profile is considered autumnal, but in this case, it feels like the setting of the scent is warm and dry, like the natural environment of the rhino, and it lacks the particular kind of sweet spiciness I associate with autumn scents.

12/11/2024

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

parfumpixie
358 Reviews

parfumpixie

1

Tony Sopranos

Prin Lomros is one of my favorite perfumers and this scent from him blew me away! This is one the best scents I think a man could wear, bc wow is it good. This is a lot of booze, a lot of leather, a lot of woods, with spiced sweetness. This opens with strong whiskey and rum, smooth and bitter, slightly sweet, with a dark roast coffee and green, spiced pink pepper. The heart is a smoky leather with a sweet subtly banana-like ylang ylang and sweet earthy grass. Then comes a strong oud but oud is smooth, creamy, woody, as well as an ambery oakmoss. This rhino smokes cigars, plays poker, sips whiskey on the rocks and sits in a leather recliner after a long day, watching the Sopranos. The smell of coffee from that morning lingers in the same cup he sips his alcohol from. This is definitely challenging in the sense that it’s a lot strong accords meshed together into one with an add on of natural sweetness from the sweet grass and ylang ylang but the end result is insanely good, and this definitely tells the story of a rhino.

09/10/2025

8Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

Antro
34 Reviews

Antro

1

Bratva

Dimly lit office wooden walls, leather couches and big wooden table in middle. the high ranking bratva member is sitting at the table on his leather chair. smoking cigar and sipping whiskey. the office smells combination of whiskey leather and dark wood. there is also little coffee stains on the other sleeve from earlier.

this is strong scent and you have to wear it like a man or you are its slave.

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