Zoologist
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The initial burst is disorienting—bright banana against raw soil and mineral crispness, like biting into overripe fruit whilst standing barefoot on wet earth. That fruity-earthy clash is immediate and slightly vertiginous, pulling you into an unfamiliar sensory space within seconds.
As the opening volatiles settle, tropical fruits (mango, perhaps papaya) emerge alongside myrrh's resinous warmth and fig's slightly fermented sweetness, creating a genuinely exotic heart that sits atop those persistent mineral and root notes. The animalic character becomes more pronounced here, softened only by the resins and the gentle spice that threads through the composition—it's lush but never pretty.
The leather becomes increasingly apparent as the fruity elements fade, anchored by sandalwood and vetiver that provide woody stability whilst tonka bean adds a whisper of warmth rather than overt sweetness. What remains is fundamentally earthy and animalic, slightly musky—a scent closer to skin than fragrance, fading slowly into a faint leather-and-vetiver signature.
Zoologist Bat is a fragrance that smells like you've stumbled into a cave at dusk—earthy, slightly unsettling, genuinely alive. Dr. Ellen Covey has constructed something that refuses the comfort of conventional beauty, instead building an olfactory portrait of nocturnal ferment and biological richness.
The opening assault of banana and soil creates an immediately peculiar tension: that overripe, almost fermented sweetness against the mineral-rich darkness of petrichor and actual earth. It's uncanny and compelling in equal measure. This isn't fruit-forward in any aspirational sense; the tropical fruits that emerge in the heart—alongside myrrh and resins—feel almost bioluminescent against that rooted earthiness, as though something damp and faintly exotic is luminously breathing in the darkness.
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