No Perfume 2018

No Perfume by The Zoo
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7.8 / 10 45 Ratings
No Perfume is a popular perfume by The Zoo for women and men and was released in 2018. The scent is smoky-resinous. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky
Resinous
Leathery
Woody
Spicy

Fragrance Notes

Birch tarBirch tar Woody notesWoody notes LabdanumLabdanum LeatherLeather ResinsResins

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.845 Ratings
Longevity
8.741 Ratings
Sillage
8.041 Ratings
Bottle
6.837 Ratings
Value for money
6.816 Ratings
Submitted by GuidoSch, last update on 15.02.2024.

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Pricing
8
Bottle
10
Sillage
10
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Supersegi

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Supersegi
Supersegi
Top Review 24  
More niche does not go
This perfume is everything I've been prepared for by trying niche fragrances.

You start with Freshies, slowly move on to Fougere/Orientals, stick to the French for a while (Lutens/Guerlain, even Roja, often Chypre/Amber), then several years with the good artists, but which you can still understand and wear (Nasomatto, Zoologist, Tauer) and which still most laymen find "beautiful".

After that came a phase for me, where I also needed SOMETHING in the collection, which "can do more".

Birch tar / burnt wood was exactly the note that I was looking for in perfection on the next level to the "what do you smell the again" - the compliment ever, if you want to smell "different".

Bois d'Ascese tries, but fails because it doesn't dare, and chokes quietly. Tauers Attar is too soft. A City on Fire is very close, but the sweetness in the background annoys me. So does by the fireplace. These are attempts to deliver "burnt" while still smelling "good".

No Perfume is exactly what I'm looking for. Art. (t-rex closely followed by Zoologist)

Tar without any roundness, smells really qie burnt wood. Aggressive, leathery, dark, heavy and hard to wear at first glance. Lasts for WEEKS and through multiple washes on clothes.

For true connoisseurs, an absolute revelation. Such a stark statement in public, you certainly have to deal with people even complaining.

I love this fragrance and am still in the process of building a circle of friends where I get to wear this as my signature.

Or will continue to enjoy the fact that I always get to sit near the window and occasionally get a compliment from a smoke lover
9 Comments
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Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
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Scent
Chizza

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Chizza
Chizza
Top Review 23  
Dusty asphalt
With No Perfume, The Zoo have released just that: a scent, not a perfume. If you look at the other creations of the house, it is clear that we are dealing with special, partly avant-garde and above all eccentric fragrances. A look at the perfumer on his website hardly shakes this idea. From his series had appealed to me especially the No Perfume, because birch tar can be well staged a fine thing.

Preliminary: the fragrance develops but it begins with dry, dust-dry asphalt. It's hot, you're thirsty and around you only heated asphalt. Strong, black, tough. A concept scent. I quickly think of On the Road by Timothy Han, it's brilliant and here it goes in the same direction, only more persistent.
Black Tar is often mentioned when it comes to tar. For me, the work of the French is a nice idea, but floral notes break up the tar. That's not the case here. The woody notes, indicated in the pyramid, must mean burnt and/or charred wood. Barbecue charcoal, perhaps. After use.

Still, it stays intense within certain limits, you keep a certain frame. But it doesn't get spicy, this isn't a blend where spice takes the edge off the tar and lets it slide from pitch black scenarios towards dark green tones. I like that because birch tar sometimes gets a little weak and featureless when you pull back the intensity and try to tweak it with green notes.

Clearly, No Perfume shows a being not poor in facets. From black we pass into brownish, dark resinous sprinkles. This provides the tar more variances without changing it in the core. This is how the scent lingers then. Of course, he becomes tamer after three or four hours, but that only relatively.

How many lines can be written about this smell. For me, this is a concept fragrance, a very successful and persistent. This one I would buy before On The Road because of the durability, it would not be too dry for me. Feels like you always need a water bottle when wearing it. All respect, Laudamiel I remember.
On a side note, The Zoo values ethical practices, which is why they artificially create various notes. Paradoxically, some fragrances are banned because of the animal-friendly substitutes disagree countries while the animal originals are not.
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BoBoChampBoBoChamp 2 years ago
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
7.5
Scent
After a pungent and oily smoky-rubbery opening, this dark and dusty leathery-woody Winter fragrance, settles on a warm resinous-woody base.
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