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Varuek
วฤค
Prin 2021

8.4 / 10 107 Ratings

A popular perfume by Prin for women and men, released in 2021. The scent is spicy-animal. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Animal

Resinous

Woody

Leathery

Fragrance Notes

Leather

Amber

Labdanum

Pine tar

Teakwood

Thai oud

Bay leaf

Beeswax

Black pepper

Castoreum

Coffee absolute Myrrh

Myrrh

Frankincense

Cinnamon

Moss

Patchouli

Spikenard

Fur

Perfumer

Prin Lomros

Ratings

Scent

8.4107 Ratings

Longevity

8.485 Ratings

Sillage

7.984 Ratings

Bottle

7.666 Ratings

Value for money

6.748 Ratings

Submitted by Chizza · last update on 02/24/2026.

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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/12/2024

9.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Smirky
533 Reviews

Smirky

Very helpful Review 7

Superb animalic

WOWSA! Oh my, what in the world has Mr. Lomros created here? Varuek ("wolf") opens quite challenging. A fecal mixture with a touch of cheesy stink. That lasts about 15 to 20 minutes, after which the most warm and enveloping cloud of animalic leather/wood/spices with a touch of wet fur appears. I definitely was getting whiffs of wet fur. The fragrance remains pretty much the same over its life until the very end where the animalics and then the spices retreat and it's more of a woody scent for the last hour or two. This is the first fragrance I tried where the animalic component is this prominent over the life of the fragrance. BUT, don't want to give the impression that's all it is or that it's repulsive. It's a well rounded scent with the leather, wood and spices. Overall an awesome fragrance.

Performance was quite good. Longevity was about 11 hours while projection was quite strong for the first 3 hours or maybe more. Of course, not very versatile. Cold or cool weather scent only for Occidentals. I'd use this while hiking or camping in the woods in autumn or winter. Also good on a cold day at home in front of the fireplace cuddling with my girlfriend. Definitely apply about 30 minutes before meeting others. Of course, not a blind buy ever!

Very masculine fragrance. My first thought was, hmmm, this is the fragrance Conan the Barbarian would wear. I then realized that, no, it's what Conan would smell like without perfume, sitting in his wooden hut, clothed in wolf skins and surrounded by the spoils of a spice caravan plunder.

Price for 30 ml is expensive but I rated it average because of the no doubt quality ingredients which generate its quality smell. I'm going to have to save my pennies for a bottle of this gem.

07/30/2023

8Scent 7Longevity 9Sillage

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

Helpful Review 4

Roar!

Varuek comes in unequivocally offensive with its pitch-dark resins and its heavy animalic notes (albeit of mostly synthetic origin). Its beauty, however, lies not in its brutality but in its richness. Beyond the forceful introduction lies a warm amber with tarry near-burnt woods, sweet beeswax and occasional hints of coffee.

I get flashes of Leather Oud, some of Tambour Sacré and yet this is nothing alike. It is hard to come up with a setting in which this would be an appropriate wear. It may be evenly hard to think of a target audience. Considering its lack of florals, I did not expect a real fit either and I could not be more wrong. Good one, Prin.

Updated on 07/30/2023

11/04/2023

8.5Scent

Holscentbar
106 Reviews

Holscentbar

2

in-depth - compare to Loup?

I would like to delve deeper after a test alongside Loup, the one chosen as an alternative to Varuek. I think it's a similar structure, as written about the house brother Prin, but quite different. Here I smell the spices a lot, especially the coffee, dark and animalic; something that is missing in Loup and therefore changes its structure and perception greatly. Here I feel a woody and spicy base with animalic and rather resinous nuances. The thing in common with Loup is the three-dimensionality and that it has a leathery accord. Difficult to choose, but I would say Varuek for quality/price.

Updated on 11/04/2023

08/13/2022

BobbyGee
230 Reviews

BobbyGee

2

Prin - Varuek (วฤค)

The future… are… yeah… 2 casts of the last premiere-works from Prin Lomros…. and what and how?
The first of them - good, interesting, with a feminine tilt (the combination of notes on my skin and one friend gives me a floral reception, which may decrease a bit in favor of civet and hay), but whether innovative or sensational - in my opinion, unfortunately I'm not talking about Ganja Kasturi… unfortunately, although I had high expectations (I don't know why). I think they will appeal to some people, especially women.

I turn to the second perfume - my hero - VARUEK (WOLF in Thai). Psik and …… .WOW, yes… yes… I jumped up, I clapped my hands, but give me time, wait man with the assessment- give a few hours, repeat, do a global… .. Well, the peasant did what he thought 2-3 times and now he sits down and scribbles what he thinks and feels, and what those neurons have transported him to the central unit.
So the peasant supports WOW to its full extent and on many levels - so WOW when it comes to fragrance and WOW when it comes to transforming this perfume over time.
Now to the point.
The beginning is the smell of saw-cut and heated and baked wood. The smell of wood shavings and light burning, smoke (it's not birch tar, something else - maybe this pine tar gives that impression) - great. This is the prelude itself ... I think that in the language of Chopin's music - I would classify it as a nocturnal prelude.
We have the full song in a moment. It begins with the entry of agarwood mixed with castoreum, which comes out more and more minute by minute.
The subsequent parts of this work appear alternately and interpenetrate each other - we have wood, wood, wood (agar, teak and what Prin added there) and animals (castoreum and HAIR, or rather pleasantly fragrant FUR - I assume, looking at the name of these perfumes - has evoke associations with a wild wolf). These notes… sounds and parts of this work interpenetrate each other. Some may also smell the skin between them. Moving on in this composition - the animal notes I wrote about earlier - are more and more the dominant notes in this 'piece', but they already have a different sound. They dominate and begin to be slightly sweet, incense - this is due to olibanum and labdanum and .... an interesting core of this composition in the base (MOON in my collage) - resinous AMBER. In addition to these notes - loud sounds, there are various minor sounds of instruments - Himalayan valerian-jatamansi or bay leaf. I can feel, hear and see these instruments here.
Durability and good projection.
I believe that these are one of his better perfumes under the PRIN brand.
What to do - the peasant recommends and buys this piece.

And now the translation from the site:
'Base on nomadism in Mongolia. Wolf symbolism in Mongolian culture and photo from 'Dark Skies' by Hamid Sardar-Afkhami.

* Varuek means wolf in Thai, comes from Sanskrit

12/07/2023

8Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

Marieposa
90 Reviews

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Marieposa

Top Review 46

The Time of Whispered Legends

Long is the night in the merciless Mongolian winter. When the frost covers the deserts of Delüün with delicate patterns and the mountain passes of the Altai sink into impassable rough storms and snow. Then comes the time of whispered legends.
Come, and sit on lichens and moss. Lean your weary head against the warm belly of the white reindeer, listen to my voice and the sweet breath of the animal. Follow the flight of the hissing sparks to the smoke-blackened leather paths of the yurt.
The howling beyond the tents awakens the yellow glow in my eyes. Quietly I hide my face under the fur hat. I will need it when the icy wind bites red-hot into my cheeks until day breaks, and wandering clouds cast their shadows again on the barren steppe. Where the eagle circles.
Sweeten the bitter drink in your cup with resins and a last drop of dark honey. They will roast the coffee beans sharper and sharper, so that their smoke still rises among the stories, when only hot water steams in the cups. But then I will have slipped out on the tarred soles of my boots. When yesterday merges with today. When the she-wolf within me awakens.

**

“I wish to create stories that narrate into your imagination when you smell them. Create olfactory experiences and interpret the main idea under your own imagination,” writes Prin Lomros on his homepage, and I can only say that his concept works excellently. At least for me. None of his fragrances that I have had the pleasure to smell left me indifferent; each told me a story in intense images, and in the case of Varuek (= the Thai word for “Wolf”), I am completely astonished at how closely my associations come to what Lomros actually wants to express with the scent: He feeds his idea of olfactorily depicting the nomadic life in Mongolia with photographs from the 2016 published photo book “Dark Heavens. The Shamans and Hunters of Mongolia” by photographer and documentary filmmaker Hamid Sardar, who lived with nomadic tribes in the Mongolian steppe for twenty years. Impressive portrait shots emerged, where humans are always thought of and naturally also depicted in relation to animals and nature. Many of the images, reflecting the rather muted colors of Mongolian landscapes, unfold a unique dynamism, deliberately playing with blurriness and contrasting the limited perspective of the camera with the almost frightening vastness of the land.

The scent begins with a hair-raising predator beetle note that settles after about five minutes. Then Varuek transforms and transports you to a cozy leather yurt, where an oud fire crackles, cinnamon-spiced coffee has been slightly over-roasted, and people and animals dream on soft moss. As it develops further, the scent gains even more warm-soft darkness through leathery labdanum and the sweetness of myrrh and dark honey, while outside wolves howl and pine tar lets out a gentle growl in the night.
Varuek awakens a similar foreign-familiar feeling in me as "Ambilux / 50 ml d'Ambiguïté | Marlou," but is distinctly deeper and darker - and I do wonder a little if with regular use the namesake she-wolf within me would awaken.

Updated on 12/07/2023

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