Zoologist
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The black and pink pepper assault your senses immediately with a bracing, almost crusty sharpness, whilst cardamom's warmer spice beneath creates an unexpected brightness. Within seconds, you register the fragrance's fundamental character—this will not be a comfort scent, but something with deliberate edges.
The cardamom fades as black tobacco emerges, its leather-tinged sweetness now mingling with that crucial "contamination" note—an acrid, slightly sulphurous element that makes the composition genuinely peculiar and compelling. The smoky character intensifies here, the woody base asserting itself, creating a dense, almost suffocating intimacy against the skin.
The oud, sandalwood, and myrrh-frankincense alliance establishes itself as a resinous, vaguely temple-like drydown that clings stubbornly without true projection. What remains is leather and smoke—increasingly abstract, increasingly skin-scent, demanding proximity to truly appreciate the fragrance's final meditative phase.
Zoologist Tiger is a fragrance that prowls rather than announces itself—a spiced leather study that conjures the feral, musky atmosphere of an animal at rest rather than in pursuit. The opening salvo of black pepper and cardamom arrives with genuine bite, the cardamom's slightly sweet spiciness tempered by the sharp, almost savoury peppercorn edge that prevents the composition from veering toward gourmand territory. What makes Tiger genuinely arresting is the "contamination" note in the heart—a deliberately unsettling element that reads as a smoky, acrid disruption, something burnt or slightly off-kilter that plays beautifully against the black tobacco's leathery sweetness.
This is not a refined, civilised fragrance. It's deliberately gritty, with a woody structure that feels rough-hewn rather than polished. The oud and sandalwood base doesn't offer creamy warmth; instead, they amplify the resinous myrrh and frankincense into something almost ceremonial, faintly medicinal, like entering a temple dedicated to smoke and hides. The leather accord binds everything together—not the buttery softness of niche leather fragrances, but something closer to saddle leather weathered by rain and dust.
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3.3/5 (102)