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panasonic 3 – :
the opening: water, ozonic air with a tinge of laundry, a synthetic edge that’s reminiscent of new-car smell – chemically for sure, slightly metallic. I think this is the ash note presenting itself? Maybe. Anyway.
It’s certainly not what I expected. There’s some musk here but it’s underneath a bunch of light/clean/robotic/aquatic fresh notes at the start.
Reminds me of a synthetic scent that might be piped into Soarin’ over California at Disneyland. one that’s supposed to make me think of open water and campground and the freshness of trees, but doesn’t *actually* smell like any of these things. I don’t dislike it but I find it strange for sure, and the drydown is just too weirdly synthetic for me.
Try it if you’re into ozonic aquatic/factory smells, for sure.
Войтиков – :
This is one of these perfumes I struggle to describe as anything but “nice”. The linden blossom is nice, the aquatic notes are nice, the musk is nice – but not much more. I like it. I don’t love it.
This could work as an office perfume, or a nice (see, here it is again) scent for when it’s very hot and you don’t want to be overwhelmed. It’s fresh and light, with just a hint of vegetal sweetness from the linden blossom. Quite evocative, a bit dreamy, it’s a stylish introduction to the Zoologist collection but in my opinion it’s not quite unique enough to be this simple.
vitegor – :
9:40 – YES. I have no idea what note is turning my nose on like this, but YES.
Like fresh linen and a powdery musk.
10 – The wood is coming out and the clean linen has disappeared. The leather kinda goes in and out.
12 – One spray had mostly disappeared by noon (after trying Bat I was going to be super cautious). I reapplied, three sprays. Definitely pick up a slight wet diaper tinge this time around. The castoreum? It isn’t something I’m familiar with. Gone within two minutes and I’m getting the linden and amber with some musk.
I like this, but not sure that it smells “good” on me. After buying several bottles because the scent intrigued me, I’ve had to realize that unless it works with my body chemistry, I won’t ever actually wear them.
As an aside, if you post the same review for two wildly different versions of a perfume and use the whole pretentious-cynicism tone in your writing, I hope a beaver pisses on your ultra lightweight backpack next time you’re trading with Canadian trappers. I’m a fan of negative perfume reviews, but offer a real reason other than some weird one-upmanship.
petr22674 – :
Babbling brooks, evergreen trees, and a hint of a beaver pelt somewhere. A very soft, inoffensive woodsy green scent. It’s a bit TOO soft though, barely projects at all and after three hours it was completely gone.
(In writing this review I managed to refrain from the very obvious, vulgar joke despite every primal instinct to do otherwise. So you’re welcome for that)
Endrik – :
This fragrance is kind of a (very) diluted Tuscan Leather, with aquatic nuances. Very interesting!
Мортиша – :
This fragrance is interesting. You can definitely smell the leather right away along with the powdery soft aldehydes, dry woods, and musk. I immediately got the twinge of castoreum that does have a urine like bite but the bite is gone as soon as it shows up. There are some soft florals, sandalwood, and vanilla that just ground the scent. The leather really sings in the perfume. On me this fragrance stays pretty true to the opening. This fragrance is much more animalic than aquatic. The aquatics and aldehydes are there combining to form the picture of water and air that this scent is trying to convey. Even though the aquatic is there you would never smell someone wearing this and think “aquatic.” The leather, musk, and castoreum are really much more prominent. The review beneath me is very on point. Go smell some leather interior in a muscle car. The soft powdery sandalwood, aldehydes, vanilla, and linden blossom do give it a very slight feminine hint that peaks through, but the perfume as a whole is very masculine. Very unique and different and as a theme of the environment of a beaver it is an absolute triumph, but not really what I want to smell like.
august110th – :
A muscle car with leather interior sinking into a murky, dirty pond nestled in a heavily wooded forrest…
Umar95 – :
Just can’t with the opening. Zoologist have taught me that linden blossom is my kryptonite – which is hugely valuable information and I’m grateful to them for it – it’s a note that I now recognise as the one that’s ruined so many other fumes for me in the past. A totally individual and complete aversion.
I can see how people without this hangup will get outdoors and citrus and fresh breeze from Beaver …but I couldn’t deal with it. As always with the brand, though – intriguing, full of massive, confident character and smells of the natural world outside. Judging by my experiences so far (with Bat, Elephant, Beaver, Camel) Zoologist just doesn’t do mediocre – it *always* walks on the wild side and dares to be different. Some I love, some I can’t, but they’re all fascinating.
tfhthth – :
I’m really impressed with this brand. This is real niche perfumery. They have managed to produce a well thought out line. Each one of the perfumes is a masterpiece in my opinion, real attention to details. I still have Dragonfly, Macaque & Panda (new) to test, but I loved all of them. Maybe I will not buy all FBs, but I could certanly appreciate each fragrance. Amazing longevity & quality. Superb blending capabilities. Plus they value quality over quantity when talking of number of fragrances they put out on the market.
Beaver… On my skin definitely an aquatic fragrance (not my favorite frag family), but at the same time woody and very musky. On top of that I get after 30 minutes a powdery note that I atribute to amber and vanilla. Castoreum is there, but in the right amount, not prominent.
I did not expect to love this fragrance as much as I do. This is super wearable and absolutely unisex. I find it sexy. It’s like swimming naked in a lake high in the mountains. It clean skin, chopped wood, water, fresh air and musk. Worth trying out.
Beaver & Elephant took my completely of guard. They share the water element in common, but deliver so many layers and impressions on top of that.
I could wear this anytime any place during daytime & even night, especially in warm weather.
павло – :
Wow, I love this one. It is watery, ozonic, linden blossom concoction, and it mixes so well. So fresh, clean and unique. I could wear it to any occasion, exept maybe a date, but otherwise, it is highly versatile. When I first smelled this, I thought, ‘This is a memory in a bottle’. Strangely it reminded me of my childhood and just getting out of a lake into a car that has been in the sun, making it boiling inside. What I mean is that the water and some heated up car salon mix reminds me of this, very strange, yet highly appealing to my nose. I cannot easily put it into words, just wow. This is full bottle worthy. Of course, you should sample it before buying anything, but with Zoologist selling the whole set in 2ml, it would be a crime to miss this. Definitely do check this out, it’s amazing.
Тефтеля – :
A tender leather. Inspiration: a cozy lodge built out of fresh wood and surrounded by water, green reeds, with a furry castoreum replica drydown.
xrn466JeomiWogkig – :
This is incredibly masculine to me, super leathery and musky a little bit oily like the petrol smelling kind. I like it, I do think there are a myriad of similar scents out there though, for a fraction price. Like gucci guilty absolute.
biokarll – :
I ordered samples from this company not so long ago and I must say they are very professional. I received them well packed and the samples are enough to really give it a good try.
The quality of their perfumes is way up there with the great names.
Unfortunatly, my skin chemistry is not working properly with Beaver. I love musc for that warm scent it gives and I am on a hunt to find a replacement for my Musc Koublai Khan since it is now so rare and expensive.
First phase was acquatic and fresh which was actually very pleasant but it does not last very long. Less than 5 minutes and it was gone.
Then it evolved into a church incense. I could smell the musc in the back but on my skin it smell like it was a battle of the scents with no winners. Everything happend at a very fast pace!
For the final, it was back to a faint acquatic mood.
It is sad because it looked so promising but unfortunatly not for me.
anatoliy2004 – :
I’m touched by what a beautiful world this is. This is fresh and green, ozonic, and watery notes conspiring with linden blossom to be light and refreshing, but then, so they don’t fly too high, there is musk, dark wood, amber, leather, and castoreum dragging it back to the earthiest or earth. I usually don’t care for water and ozone or even something as green as is, but this is held so close and given a breath of intimacy by the darker, heavier animalic notes. This is the reformulation of Beaver, and usually reformulations don’t do so well, this one is taking my breath away.
Tatsy33198 – :
I don’t know if I’m wearing the 2016 version, as Surrender to Chance doesn’t bother to indicate. (I do wish they would do a better job of dating all their samples.) This is the first animalic perfume I’ve tried. Honestly, I have to really resist the urge to wash it off–there’s something quite repulsive about it to me, not balanced by any more pleasurable response. But at the same time, I always appreciate the mind opening experience of smelling something new to me as I go about my day. Interestingly, my wife, who is usually unenthusiastic about all scents, doesn’t mind this one.
I walked by someone smoking a cigarette–an increasingly rare encounter in my town– and for a second I had the experience of ‘Oh I get this.’ Put this funk on top of some ambient tobacco smoke, and it makes sense to me. Maybe animalics were better suited to a generally smokier, smellier era?
P.S. — This scent sticks around on your clothes for WEEKS.
slava.svv – :
I love the latest version of beaver as well as macaque and nightingale. Ive never smelt anything quite like it. Quite experimental but thankfully it really works. The accords listed make it sounds really heavy and oppressive. It is far from that!
Who knew castoreum would work so well with linden blossom. Musk and castoreum are heavy notes but they are lightly used here. The two are beautifully enhanced and opened up with the ozonic and linden blossom notes. I love the linden blossom in this. A wonderful dry almost fruity effect. This would be particularly lovely to wear on a spring day. Cool, dry and fresh. This is very wearable for either sex. Moderate sillage and longevity. Love it!
pabEsomoshome – :
I have to admit that I wasn’t a huge fan of the original formula of Beaver. It was a great creation, it just didn’t appeal to me personally.
The original formula was strong, intense and felt a bit agressive. It was like smelling a sweaty beaver in heat, biting your leg out of sexual frustration.
This new formula is a whole nother story. This beaver lives in Narnia. It is sweet, kind and approachable, and wants to serve you tea in front of the fireplace in the heart of its home.
The scent feels at first fresh and green, like a breeze through the forest. I can smell wood and linden blossoms. There is a moist, fresh, watery note – and of course the animalic smell of leather and castoreum – the cozy smell of warm beaver fur.
This is a rich and atmospheric scent, with both freshness and depth. It smells like a combination of wild, untamed nature and something warm, cozy and safe.
I love this new formula of Beaver so much that I have ordered it as a birthday present for myself this year.
Sillage is medium and longevity is great. I get about 10-12 hours out of it.
Solisoins – :
The Word reformulation gained over the past years scary and sad connotations for a perfume lover. With the pursuit of operational efficiency and adequacy to European law that often update what you can and can not use the only certainty that we have today is that hardly a perfume will remain for a long time the way it was conceived. The difficulty, however, is to adapt and maintain the same performance of a scent, which is not always done as best as possible considering that the current market is boosted by novelty and not by small niches of loyalty to certain perfumes.
Not always, however, the reformulation is driven by such circumstances. A perfume can not simply fall into the public taste by having a very challenging aspect and seem too avant-garde. And as much as perfume is and has art features, its main purpose is to be used and not remain stuck in the stock of physical and virtual store. So, I can understand the motivation for which Victor Wong commissioned perfumer Chris Bartlett to a new version of Beaver, one not so popular from Zoologist line.
I confess I was curious about the work that was done in Beaver, to know whether the perfume would remain interesting despite trying to be more commercial. This in fact happened and altough Beaver does not have an animalic and challenging opening anymore as the original it does not mean that its aroma became common. The work done is very interesting, a kind of floral leather with aquatic nuances that keeps a light hint of something animalic and oily.
The new Beaver opening possess a cool, aldehydic and lightly acquatic character without having a smell of male sports scent (which I usually dislike). Beaver sounds kind of spring in that respect for me, something that develops into a more floral impression, a kind of citrus floral with nuances of muguet and lily. And as time passes, the aroma of leather, musks and animalic notes becomes a little more obvious on the skin and you can still see the inspiration in Beaver, but in a more abstract way. It is interesting that at this stage Beaver reminds me the abstract musk leather perfume accord of fragrances like Dolce & Gabbana By Man and Helmut Lang Cuiron, but with a projection and performance that I never found in those cited perfumes.
In my original review for Beaver scent I mentioned that the Beavers are known to be docile animals and similar in human behavior to towards being modifiers of the environment which they live to ensure their survival. The new version Beaver metaphorically fulfill these two characteristics by showing an interesting and kinder scent adapted to the public tastes. It is a good case of a reformulation work done with care and with a good new interpretation of the concept.
Kikusik.kiki – :
I’m wearing this today at the office, using my sample. Noone noticed it, neither as a good smell nor a bad one.
I’m a bit baffled by the combination of airy-watery-flowery notes and the castoreum-leather, but it’s more strange than unpleasant, and not as crazy as “Bat”. I haven’t tried the previous version, and can’t imagine what it was like.
Beaver 2016 may not become a favorite of mine, but it is a wearable fragrance.
damirkamaliev – :
Scent – vanilla musk & watery green notes.
Season/Time of Day – I prefer to use this one in the warmer months, during the day.
Projection – I didn’t get noticed, I didn’t get a compliment.
Longevity – I get 6hrs consistently.
turovets70 – :
When i first sniffed this one, “Cruel Summer” by Bananarama came up on my mind! it’s like the summertime, the burning summertime of the asphalt pavements and burning tires in an empty city, it’s mostly like the smell of the day city walk in “Last Of Us” video game. Musk, Castoreum, and leather.
I wouldn’t wear this one myself, but it is wearable.
guehoondene – :
As much as I enjoy unique, challenging, animalic fragrances, the original Beaver was just unappealing to me. The sort of fuzzy animal aroma it had felt like it clashed with the spring-like floral/woody top in a shouting match without much harmony. One of the more baffling aspects of the original blend was an intensely strong and acrid ash note. It was lost on me both compositionally and conceptually, had these poor beavers’ dam burned down? Was this an attempt to provide some sort of support for the castoreum so it didn’t just become musky in the drydown? Was it an attempt to give these somewhat fresh notes a sort of ominous and foreboding overtone? Why so much?!
Personally it straddled the line between unique and unpleasant quite unsteadily and I did not find myself reaching for the sample with any excitement.
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In short, they fixed it. This is quite the improvement. The new beaver sort of grabs hold of the previous incarnation’s spring-like leanings and runs with them. Where once the top notes left me grimacing with nostrils full of animal ass and soot, this sings with the linden blossom amped up and grounded with leather and a very clear (clean!) musk overtop. It smells classy and smooth… sort of deceptively modern. In the dry down a slight hint of the castoreum is indeed detectable, but it mostly becomes a linden-musk fragrance with leathery facets and a cute little vanillic sweetness that sneaks up in the end. Strangely enough I am reminded a bit of a sort of scratchier, spring-time variant of something along the lines of Tom Ford’s White Suede.
Smoothening the fragrance has boosted both it’s wearability and it’s unisex appeal, the previous felt masculine to me in a salty, strange way. This seems perfectly down the middle, in the same way that Panda did, and fans of that one will certainly find something to like in this new beaver.
That being said, I do think it would be a fair assessment to say they perhaps took this a little bit too far in the safe direction. Fans of the original will probably be extremely disappointed that their weird musky wet animal-and-ash fragrance has been reduced to a crowd-pleasing green-floral-musky-leather. But personally, I could see myself wearing this much more. Detractors of the former should certainly seek this out as it is truly quite dramatically different. Methinks this will perform well on warm, humid days, and I have plenty of those coming up here in Florida.
8/10