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11/18/2020
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Smoking, drinking and a little bit on heat
Actually, I'm not really into reformulation of fragrances.
I thought it was stupid even back at Beaver's. With Bat it was different because it was about ending the collaboration with the respective perfumer. I was also split in two with Dodo and Rhinoceros, because I find both fragrances to be perfect in the actual formulation and wonder why they didn't simply choose two other animals as namesakes.
If the original creature still stood around in clouds of smoke, herbaceous and sweetish-biting, its successor goes completely different scent paths.
Rhinoceros (2020) starts out no less engaging and brisk, but it's not a burnt desert herb that hits you in the nose but a woody whiskey rum flag. And rarely has a blow on the nose been so good to bear!
Surrounded by full and strong coffee aromas and something herbal, almost ethereal, of which I have not yet fully understood what it is.
It gets darker in the early drydown. The rhino now shows leathery and smoky. And still quite drunk. And the pachyderm seems to have wandered through mud and mire. Mossy dark green mixes with the otherwise rather smoky, whiskey coloured scent.
In all its independence, I am always confronted with fleeting images that build bridges to other fragrances.
For example to Tobacco Oud, yes also to his rather dissimilar brother Tobacco Oud Intense.
Then the mixture of fuselage and smoke takes on an almost "poltergeistesque" form again, only to make way again shortly afterwards for the actual dermis, while chewing with relish on basil - standing in burning grass.
Although no vanilla or vanilla-like substances are listed, I also regularly imagine to perceive bittersweet vanilla beans. Very far away.
Because Rhinoceros is miles away from "sweet" - and that in both respects ...
To go back briefly to comparisons with other fragrances:
There are scents, (many, many scents) that smell to me like a mixture of a mix of scents I know. Some recently tested prime examples of this are Kobe (Xerjoff) or Imperial (Boadicea the Victorious), which smells to me 1to1 as if the respective light versions of Oud Wood, the Rochas cone and Black XS had simply been put together.
With Rhinoceros, my bridge-building was neither negative nor would I lean out of the window to say, "...smells like..."! All its nuances are skilfully built up here into a completely independent whole.
As if the pachyderm had just put together the best qualities from all the nuances and fragrances mentioned and then confidently wallowed in them.
All praise with one crying and one laughing eye.
As far as I was concerned, there would have been no need for a reformulation of the original rhino that I have come to love so much.
One could have given him the name of another desert animal for all I care.
But I'm not in it now and don't know anything about the reasons for the (in the case of Dodo also quite fast) reformulation with the two new zoologists.
Nevertheless: the fragrance is what it is.
Very, very strong
Rhinceros (was and is) a turf marker.
It also radiates a considerable amount of masculinity.
Dark-shimmering.
Self-confident.
The ripped leather jacket over the shoulder.
Smoking and heavily alcoholized.
And a little bit in heat
Let's get back to the end:
Very, very strong smell!
I thought it was stupid even back at Beaver's. With Bat it was different because it was about ending the collaboration with the respective perfumer. I was also split in two with Dodo and Rhinoceros, because I find both fragrances to be perfect in the actual formulation and wonder why they didn't simply choose two other animals as namesakes.
If the original creature still stood around in clouds of smoke, herbaceous and sweetish-biting, its successor goes completely different scent paths.
Rhinoceros (2020) starts out no less engaging and brisk, but it's not a burnt desert herb that hits you in the nose but a woody whiskey rum flag. And rarely has a blow on the nose been so good to bear!
Surrounded by full and strong coffee aromas and something herbal, almost ethereal, of which I have not yet fully understood what it is.
It gets darker in the early drydown. The rhino now shows leathery and smoky. And still quite drunk. And the pachyderm seems to have wandered through mud and mire. Mossy dark green mixes with the otherwise rather smoky, whiskey coloured scent.
In all its independence, I am always confronted with fleeting images that build bridges to other fragrances.
For example to Tobacco Oud, yes also to his rather dissimilar brother Tobacco Oud Intense.
Then the mixture of fuselage and smoke takes on an almost "poltergeistesque" form again, only to make way again shortly afterwards for the actual dermis, while chewing with relish on basil - standing in burning grass.
Although no vanilla or vanilla-like substances are listed, I also regularly imagine to perceive bittersweet vanilla beans. Very far away.
Because Rhinoceros is miles away from "sweet" - and that in both respects ...
To go back briefly to comparisons with other fragrances:
There are scents, (many, many scents) that smell to me like a mixture of a mix of scents I know. Some recently tested prime examples of this are Kobe (Xerjoff) or Imperial (Boadicea the Victorious), which smells to me 1to1 as if the respective light versions of Oud Wood, the Rochas cone and Black XS had simply been put together.
With Rhinoceros, my bridge-building was neither negative nor would I lean out of the window to say, "...smells like..."! All its nuances are skilfully built up here into a completely independent whole.
As if the pachyderm had just put together the best qualities from all the nuances and fragrances mentioned and then confidently wallowed in them.
All praise with one crying and one laughing eye.
As far as I was concerned, there would have been no need for a reformulation of the original rhino that I have come to love so much.
One could have given him the name of another desert animal for all I care.
But I'm not in it now and don't know anything about the reasons for the (in the case of Dodo also quite fast) reformulation with the two new zoologists.
Nevertheless: the fragrance is what it is.
Very, very strong
Rhinceros (was and is) a turf marker.
It also radiates a considerable amount of masculinity.
Dark-shimmering.
Self-confident.
The ripped leather jacket over the shoulder.
Smoking and heavily alcoholized.
And a little bit in heat
Let's get back to the end:
Very, very strong smell!
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