Bat Zoologist 2020

Version from 2020

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7.1 / 10 112 Ratings

A perfume by Zoologist for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is earthy-fruity. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Earthy

Fruity

Animal

Spicy

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Passion fruit

Soil

Pink guava

Fig

Heart Notes

Minerals

Frankincense

Hay

Night-blooming jasmine

Base Notes

Stone

Animalic notes

Leather

Teakwood

Vetiver

Perfumer

Prin Lomros

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Ratings

Scent

7.1112 Ratings

Longevity

7.993 Ratings

Sillage

7.394 Ratings

Bottle

9.089 Ratings

Value for money

6.942 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 25.04.2024.

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9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/08/2021

6
Pricing 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 8
Scent

NuiWhakakore
62 Reviews

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NuiWhakakore

Top Review 43

Bat out of Hell

She always knew she was different from the others. Even as a very young thing. Sure, she liked fruit, really ripe, bordering on fermented, nice and soft, juicy and sweet. Who didn't like that? But she always felt a darker side to her, too.

She was in the orchard, night had just fallen, when she heard it from the porch. A voice was yowling quite terribly:

Then she was so taken that she slipped off her overripe guava and fell from the tree. Fortunately, she landed in dry straw. Startled, her little claws dug into the damp earth, rich in minerals, and she thought to herself: that's what I want to be! I want to be mean and nasty, fearless and powerful!

Her cousins hunted insects, after all. And she had heard from other relatives, they even drank blood! Yes, that would be it, that would be really nasty and dark! The earth around her steamed sweet and spicy. She imagined it was smoke straight from hell.

If not now, when? She fluttered as fast as she could toward the chicken enclosure. There they all squatted asleep on their perches, unaware of anything. Hah, their victim, she thought to herself. As she fluttered closer, however, she noticed that the chickens were quite a bit larger than she was. But then she thought of the yowling man again:

Exactly! This is the opportunity, now or never. Just as she was about to go for the bite, the chicken woke up, turned its head once in confusion, flinging her into the damp grass as it did so. Then it went back to sleep, the chicken.

But the little bat lay dazed, breathing the cool air, the damp grass, the earth, the sweet fruit, and the dark wood of the forest. No, I'm not mean and nasty, I'm just little and nice. But that's good too, that's just my nature.
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The 2020 Bat starts with ripe, but not as overripe fruit as described above. They are determinative at first and would quickly become annoying if not for dry hay and moist soil. Fortunately, the fruits also withdraw quite quickly, are still present, but no longer dominant. The minerals are also very noticeable, which has something. The start is marked for me by an interesting contrast of damp (fruits, earth) and dry notes (hay, minerals). That is already quite well done.
Soon, a certain animalism is added. A slightly ashy note from the jasmine I would blame for this. This often bothers me, but here it fits quite well. Pissy or fecal smells there for me nothing. A little smoky and spicy is the whole also.
Towards the base, the animalism increases somewhat, leather flashes briefly times, dark wood and vetiver is also well recognizable. A little sweeter it is then again, the fruit notes come through again a little stronger and that's it then unfortunately already, because the durability I find not so intoxicating. The silage is, especially compared to other zoologists rather restrained.
Positively I would like to emphasize that no musk is built here. Musk is in many fragrances of Zoologist in the base somewhat overdosed, in my opinion (funnily enough, but not with the Musk Deer). However, I'm also not a big musk fan.

The Bat of 2020 is for me a perfectly wearable and also accessible fragrance. I would have wished me only a little more power and persistence. So he is on balance not evil and also not too dark, but just rather nice. However, that has quite also times what.
How the differences to the 2015s are I unfortunately do not know. If you believe the comments, that was already a different number. But whether that must necessarily be better, is on another sheet...

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03/23/2020

7
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Floyd
290 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 37

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

I told this guy to fill our trunks. Not that we really needed all that stuff for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, you tend to go extreme. I had told him we needed something to smoke, so two bags of grass, seventy-five stones, a wheelbarrow full of hay, a bucket of earth and that is the muddy one, a handful of flowers, a few dead animals in wooden boxes and then some healthy minerals and fruits. He was supposed to get all this stuff together the night before, on a wild hell ride through the whole Los Angeles district, from Topanga to Watts, grab everything he could get hold of and pack us into the back of the car Now we finally drove through the Nevada desert, impregnated ourselves with a sample of all the stuff he had mixed and bottled for us in a mixer and waited for it to take effect. I smelled fruit and was not sure if it was the one from the trunk. It smelled like bags of sweet fruit candies against the hot airflow of our convertible, which quickly carried the smell out into the seemingly endless dead sandbox. The doctor made crazy dislocations, seemed to become hysterical, because there was nothing else to perceive except fruit. He told me to stop, he shouted and I held him by his trouser legs. He was already hanging halfway over the door. We'd have to check the trunk immediately, the guy would have fooled us for sure. We can't stop here, this is bat country! I made it clear to him and we had to continue to rely on the filling from the blender.
Tartaric Fruits and... Flowers, the harmless blossoms that are trampled by small children in spring, but nothing to smoke, no grass, not even mud. A little later I thought I saw the approach of a dead animal, but I was not sure if it was the hallucination of a bat or the gland of a mammal. This mixed quite nicely with the leather of the convertible and the wood of the dashboard, but by now I was sure that the guy in LA had set us up. That was never the crazy stuff everyone was raving about. This just smelled like fruit, flowers, some ox gland, a little suede and wood. It was also weak like hippie grass leaves, barely stuck to the skin and most of it was gone after a few hours. I would have stopped to look in the trunk to see if there was anything in it at all, but the doctor had tipped out of the convertible a few miles earlier and I didn't want to risk him catching up with me.

05/01/2020

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Kovex
15 Reviews

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Kovex

Top Review 28

All will be well

The original version of Bat from 2015 was my first fragrance I tested by a zoologist. The impression it left was a lasting one. I was fascinated by the perfect thematic implementation of the flying cave dwellers in one fragrance. Nevertheless, a first wearing test was acknowledged by my wife with the question, which crypt I had got out of. And I have to admit: as brilliant as I found it, as difficult to wear it was
Now some scents have already been reworked by zoologists, such as Beaver or Panda. And of course the fears of the fans are always big that the special thing that makes a fragrance gets lost with its reformulation.

While the very likeable brand owner Victor Wong took customer feedback to heart and redesigned both Beaver and Panda in favor of convenience and portability, there is no denying that even an idealist like him needs to make money at the end of the day to keep his business going. Bat had a large fan base and there was no reason to change the scent.

However, the reasons were different when Bat was revised. As far as I was able to find out, the rights to the fragrances are held by the respective perfumers, who sell their creations under temporary licensing by the Zoologist brand. However, when it came to renewing the license for Bat 2015, the perfumer in charge, Dr. Ellen Covey, wanted to obtain significantly higher fees for the renewal of the license for Bat. Victor Wong refused to do so, as it no longer seemed possible to set a price that was appropriate for him. So he looked for other possibilities to continue to sell the successful Bat.

With Prin Lomros, Victor Wong has won what I consider to be a brilliant perfumer who is innovative, creative and courageous at the same time.

Bat 2020 starts with a strong and full-bodied fruity note. The delicate unsweet green of the fig harmonizes fantastically with the sweet-sour aroma of the guava and the exotic fruitiness of the passion fruit.

This very pleasing fruitiness is accompanied by fragrant aromatic and earthy notes. There are parallels to the old version, only that the whole thing here is much smoother, more harmonious and more pleasing. While Bat
2015, the new version focuses on more portability. Is that bad or reprehensible? Not at all, because I can be equally enthusiastic about the new composition.

The initial fruitiness remains in the beginning, but in the further course of time very natural mineral notes are added. One has the feeling of sniffing the entire microcosm of a handful of flavoured, slightly sweet earth. For a nature-loving person like me a revelation
A certain animalism is common to many scents of zoologist. Sometimes driven to the top of the tolerable, it gives Bat that certain something that gives the scent additional tension. But all notes are so subtly interwoven that no urine-smelling, grubby picture is likely to emerge.

I too was sceptical whether a worthy successor could replace the old version and was proven wrong. And princess Lomros-- I will keep an eye on him, thankful that Victor Wong brought him on board and that it did not remain with this one project. Bat made it right on my wish list.

And for all those who are still mourning the 2015 version of Bat, the good news is that it's still around.
I haven't had a chance to test it yet, but Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes has relaunched the fragrance under the name Night Flyer. Responsible perfumer - how could it be otherwise: Dr. Ellen Covey.

11/04/2020

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 5.5
Scent

Leimbacher
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Leimbacher

Top Review 17

Igitt-19...?

Pulp, A*Men, Blask, Kouros, Succus - just to name a few fragrances, which at the beginning sometimes pushed me hard to get my nose up, but which became absolute favourites with sometimes more, sometimes less time, personal as well as general milestones and fragrances that stay in my head. "Bat" makes me feel similar - only so far/probably unfortunately without the turn to the positive...

Since the concept of the brand more than appeals to me, many fragrances sound super interesting and the "T-Rex" was already right for me, I ordered their complete sample set in Canada when my test stocks were low. And now it's off through the zoo - with a first stop in this fruity lazy bat cave. But I would have loved to storm out of it again, so aggressive and biting and mean is "Bat". Of course, I don't know the older version - but this 2020 fruit bat is a little bloodsucker that gives me goose bumps - and not really in a pleasant or even erotic sense.

Animalistic, leathery, but standing knee-deep in a mud of passion fruit and bat excrement. From fascinating and sometimes brave to poo and nastiest, everything is here. Overripe would definitely still be too timidly expressed here. It's getting mouldy and stings a lot. The comparison with "Pulp" is obvious, but "Bat" goes two or three steps further without shame. For me, a concept fragrance that is difficult to wear. Only when it's leathery and shady siesta phases are more pleasant and more likely to be worn. But even then never quite. Nevertheless, I still really want this olfactory state zoo from Canada
Flacon: a grandiose concept, a great style, cute pictures
Sillage: rather Batman than a small, sweet bat
Durability: hardly to brake - blind flight up to at least 10 hours!

Conclusion: a mouldy, rotten flycatcher, an already slightly fungus-mineral passion fruit - "Bat" is a beastly challenge that I don't want to face at the moment. Rather "experiment + respect" than "wow + want to buy".

01/16/2021

8
Sillage 9
Longevity 7
Scent

Manogi
83 Reviews

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Manogi

Interesting

Interesting. That's what Alfred Biolek used to say on his cooking show when a dish tasted, shall we say, only so-so. Similarly, I feel with "Bat".

I'm a lover of animalic scents, as you know. And this fragrance is one of the most animalic I have ever smelled. Unfortunately, however, even I find the animalism here a little exaggerated. It smells strongly of urine. If this note were a little more discreet, "Bat" would definitely be more portable.

Because over time, this pee note settles and makes way for the other, quite nice parts. I smell especially the fig out. However, I also wonder with notes like "stone", how that should smell. The I would like to smell pure to learn what Zoologist has thought of it.

It's hard for me to draw a conclusion here. As an experiment, I like "Bat" just fine. Whether it's wearable in this form is another question that leaves me somewhat perplexed. In view of the fact that even after more than an hour still swathes of urine come to my nose, I have certain doubts. I notice relatively little of the heart notes that read promisingly. That is a pity

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