Top Notes
Bergamot
Black pepper
Fir
Bay leaf
Neroli
Nutmeg
Heart Notes
Champaca flower
Geranium
Jasmine
Osmanthus
Rose
Ylang-ylang
Base Notes
Resins
Canary Islands juniper
Cedar
Civet
Frankincense
Leather
Patchouli
Vanilla
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Greenfaerie 
PMRP12 10/21/2021
Schallhoerer
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Schallhoerer
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A maelstrom of smoke, earth and blood
Zoologist as a brand could not convince me so far. The niche house with a focus on fragrances of animals and their environment has many unique fragrances in the portfolio, but none of them was really wearable (see my review of the new Rhinoceros). With the Tyrannosaurus Rex, however, the brand has succeeded in creating an epochal masterpiece in the olfactory sense.
Who knows me, who knows that I like it a little more extreme. Be it smoky, dirty or particularly leathery. A fragrance must set a statement for me. It is not enough for me personally, just clean and smell like fresh laundry.
In the opening we have a pungent smoke note, which smells absolutely authentic in its kind of burning campfire. I think that here the fir and the bay leaf in interaction with the pepper create this impression. In general, I find it very difficult to separate the individual "rock layers" in Tyrannosaurus Rex. Where this bothers me in other fragrances because it often seems like a mishmash of scents, in this case I really feel it's an artifice. The individual ingredients are so perfectly interwoven that you can recognize them with a lot of patience and a good nose, but when smelling superficially rather wins an overall impression and easily loses track. Who likes, for example, the smoke from № 03 - Lonestar Memories, which will almost certainly also come here to his taste.
As it progresses, the smoke then retreats somewhat into the background and leaves room for the heart note to unfold. As the fragrance pyramid to infer, this phase of the fragrance seems floral-angehaucht. To me, though, it's more like all these plants are hanging upside down and are already past their "prime". This slightly floral-herbaceous phase then gives way to the basic DNA of the fragrance of resins, the still monothematic smoke in the background and very late towards the end a minimal touch of sweetness.
Sweetness is an interesting keyword here. So far, an excessive sweetness has bothered me in many tested Zoologist fragrances. That was the case with the Musk Deer (which would otherwise have been very nice), of course, the Bee (which for this perfectly implements the theme of its fragrance) or even the Snowy Owl (which in my opinion but completely misses the point). Here, though, in the Tyrannosaurus Rex, I'm grateful for that minimal sweetness. It takes away some of the fragrance's brute force in the late drydown and lets it fade out more relaxed.
I then get quite a strange association in the later part of the fragrance. Here smells the Tyrannosaurus Rex then in places like WICK VapoRub, so this ointment with which you rub at night if you have a cold or the feeling to get sick. Probably this association comes from the resins in the scent. I, in any case, find this phase insanely pleasant and soothing, which may sound somewhat blasphemous with a brute elemental force in the form of this fragrance.
The durability sets new standards here, by the way. With a spray (more I would also not recommend anyone) I come without problems on 16h and even longer. Even after a thorough shower, I could still perceive the basic character of the fragrance the next morning. On clothes, the scent lasts over a week. This is therefore not an office fragrance (unless you have a single office) and certainly not a fragrance for dates and if, then rather as a stress test. I also don't see the scent on a woman. That's not meant to sound chauvinistic or macho, but I don't know any woman on this planet that I could imagine this scent on. This is an absolutely brute masculine fragrance that needs to be worn by men who are also aware that they are men. What this fragrance exudes, the wearer must also exude. Otherwise, it looks like a disguise
Who knows me, who knows that I like it a little more extreme. Be it smoky, dirty or particularly leathery. A fragrance must set a statement for me. It is not enough for me personally, just clean and smell like fresh laundry.
In the opening we have a pungent smoke note, which smells absolutely authentic in its kind of burning campfire. I think that here the fir and the bay leaf in interaction with the pepper create this impression. In general, I find it very difficult to separate the individual "rock layers" in Tyrannosaurus Rex. Where this bothers me in other fragrances because it often seems like a mishmash of scents, in this case I really feel it's an artifice. The individual ingredients are so perfectly interwoven that you can recognize them with a lot of patience and a good nose, but when smelling superficially rather wins an overall impression and easily loses track. Who likes, for example, the smoke from № 03 - Lonestar Memories, which will almost certainly also come here to his taste.
As it progresses, the smoke then retreats somewhat into the background and leaves room for the heart note to unfold. As the fragrance pyramid to infer, this phase of the fragrance seems floral-angehaucht. To me, though, it's more like all these plants are hanging upside down and are already past their "prime". This slightly floral-herbaceous phase then gives way to the basic DNA of the fragrance of resins, the still monothematic smoke in the background and very late towards the end a minimal touch of sweetness.
Sweetness is an interesting keyword here. So far, an excessive sweetness has bothered me in many tested Zoologist fragrances. That was the case with the Musk Deer (which would otherwise have been very nice), of course, the Bee (which for this perfectly implements the theme of its fragrance) or even the Snowy Owl (which in my opinion but completely misses the point). Here, though, in the Tyrannosaurus Rex, I'm grateful for that minimal sweetness. It takes away some of the fragrance's brute force in the late drydown and lets it fade out more relaxed.
I then get quite a strange association in the later part of the fragrance. Here smells the Tyrannosaurus Rex then in places like WICK VapoRub, so this ointment with which you rub at night if you have a cold or the feeling to get sick. Probably this association comes from the resins in the scent. I, in any case, find this phase insanely pleasant and soothing, which may sound somewhat blasphemous with a brute elemental force in the form of this fragrance.
The durability sets new standards here, by the way. With a spray (more I would also not recommend anyone) I come without problems on 16h and even longer. Even after a thorough shower, I could still perceive the basic character of the fragrance the next morning. On clothes, the scent lasts over a week. This is therefore not an office fragrance (unless you have a single office) and certainly not a fragrance for dates and if, then rather as a stress test. I also don't see the scent on a woman. That's not meant to sound chauvinistic or macho, but I don't know any woman on this planet that I could imagine this scent on. This is an absolutely brute masculine fragrance that needs to be worn by men who are also aware that they are men. What this fragrance exudes, the wearer must also exude. Otherwise, it looks like a disguise
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