.purefinance.ru – 2022-06-21:

5 out of 5

I was happy to nab a couple samples of the now seemingly long-gone Slumberhouse Rume, and like some reviewers have said, I immediately get a darkened apple cider sort of vibe, a sweet/spicy/balsamic/woody blend that can be similarly classified to Jeke and Ore.
Rume instead involves the apple cider mixed with the listed notes of labdanum, praline, and bay leaf, the bay leaf providing the predominant source of the spiciness.
This is comparable on the easy-challenging scale to Ore and Jeke, perhaps slightly less challenging than Norne or Baque, and a lot less challenging than Sova, perhaps the spiciest and most provocative Slumberhouse scent I’ve had the pleasure of smelling.
Rume makes me think of winter, is comforting in its sweet, semi-gourmand composition, but still has the benefit of being provocative.
Performance is, as with most of the darker Slumberhouse entries I’ve tried, exceptional, and superlative, really, and the juice is dense, with intense projection and extreme longevity, denoting great value.
I’d like to think I could track down a bottle of this but as with all Slumberhouse offerings that are here for a limited time, are popular, and eventually go away, Rume seems very difficult to track down. I’m glad at least that some have bottles of this to enjoy.
8 out of 10

Бобус-Мобус – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

i won’t wax idiotic about “hipsters” or raisins, but as long as we’re on the subject of wax…
a sample of rume came packaged with my order of the recently rereleased baque, so lets hope josh is about to unleash another limited run of a long vaulted slumberhouse masterpiece.
rume is almost comically linear and simple, but heavenly nonetheless.
a fat, resinous glob of ancient myrrh freshly scraped from the gaping wound encased in a heavy egg of unrefined beeswax.
thats all.
a loud, greedy, sticky baby.
occult. austere. sexual.

patronura – 2022-06-21:

5 out of 5

I’ve now spent more time with Rume, and it’s grown on me. The main thing I’ve learned is to never overspray this fragrance. The first time I wore it, I oversprayed…a lot. Bad mistake with Rume. It is so pungent and powerful that to over spray is almost fatal to the olfactory senses. Now that I’ve worn it a few more times, I have to say that I quite like it. It is one that smells better in it’s vapor trail than it does nose to wrist however, at least in the first hour or two. There is a musty note like fermented hay when you put your nose on this fragrance in the early going that wears down after about 3 hours. It has nuclear longevity and the sillage is very impressive as well. I think I prefer wearing it on the wrists to putting it on my neck or face. One spray, then dabbing the other inner wrist as well as the upper wrists on both arms on the single sprayed spot has had Rume lasting on me for the last 9 hours and it’s still going strong. I would love to smell the limited cask version to compare it to the original, but I now really appreciate what Josh Lobb was doing when he created this highly unusual fragrance. This has gone from a neutral to a thumbs up for me now that I’ve given it more time and attention. Another intriguing, unique and excellent job by Josh.

kg19631 – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

Imagine a hipster. His mustachioed self rode a unicycle into work beyond the counter of his old timey soda shop. It is clean and well loved, but several hundred years of dust and use leaves a mark. The huge service counter runs the length of the shop and behind it are gleaming glass jars overflowing with sassafras chews, clove bubblegum, black licorice bites, cinnamon honey swizzlers, sticky candies. The jar of rum raisins is literally raisins soaking in barrel aged amber, their indolent scent of fruit and booze sneaking out of the container and filling the small room.
You sit on the leather bar stools and spin, waiting. He serves your friend a Coke in a tin cup so cold his fingerprints are iced into it. You he serves an “Herbal Remedy,” the house special of whiskey, lemon, & soda water garnished with a bay leaf wrapped date.
No one has said a word.
Slumberhouse bottles stories.

Lavina2906 – 2022-06-21:

3 out of 5

I’m gonna completely disregard the notes and tell you what I smell:
spiced rum that’s been mulled further w/ raisins, dates, & prunes perhaps? Warm cinnamon & clove, boozy, rich, warm & intoxicating spices in the mulling mix. Sniffing it straight out of bottle I get a touch of licorice and medicinal tones, but on skin it morphs into other spices w/ clove and drinkable spiced booze instead.
Absolutely delicious. I get the ‘roasted vibe’ comments & 2nd them. I don’t get any cola etc though. I can see a slight ‘Christmas’ vibe too.
Absolute win, so happy to have found a bottle of this discontinued smoldering beauty. To sum it up in a single descriptive sentence: sweet, dark, deep, heavily spiced, boozy w/ a touch of pine.

yuga09 – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

Rume takes me back to my youth when I lived with my grandparents on a ranch. My great grandfather use to make wine in the basement. My grandmother use to make fruitcakes during the Christmas holidays. I had an uncle that use to smell like vinegar because he drank shots of it as a health tonic. Another scent memory that Rume reminds me of is my stepdad making Glogg. Of all the notes listed on Fragrantica, I mostly detect bay leaf and some myrrh in the opening, after a few hours the labdanum makes it self known, adding warmth to the fragrance. Rume isn’t nearly as potent in terms of projection and longevity as some of the other offerings from Slumberhouse that I have experienced. I like Rume although I can’t see myself owning a bottle. I think it would be better suited as a scented candle or room spray.

debosh9000 – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

This one does really really weird things on my skin… It literally smells, from start to finish, like urine and rotting hay! I get no root beer, no cola, no spices, nothing sweet at all… Just this foul sour and rotten stench… As I get a slight sourness in Vikt too and the two scents share bay leaf as a note, I am guessing that my skin just hates bay leaf…

casiomen – 2022-06-21:

5 out of 5

If Die Antwoord were a pink flamingo
and Rume were a plume of fume
Their child would be a punk fumingo
spraying Christmas pudding
throughout the room
[post ed]
Alfarom had conducted an interview with Josh Lobb (Rume).
Alfa) If you were supposed to do a bespoke fragrance for a musician, who would it be and how the fragrance would smell like?
JL) I’d love to do ….. Dom Perignon perfume for Die Antwoord.
Thank you Alfarom.

Spiridon – 2022-06-21:

5 out of 5

This opens with a fermented spicey monster projection. I have tried 10 Slumberhouse frags, and the commonality is that they are all over-poweringly strong. It’s like hearing a great tune, but turning up the volume to the max…it is too much. This dried down to a more managable mix.

kent34 – 2022-06-21:

3 out of 5

The opening is surprising but then I get a smoky clove dark berry. Pleasant for women or men. Delicious. Lasts all day and then some.

satanistrk – 2022-06-21:

3 out of 5

On initial application I get cloves and bay leaves. Just the right amount of sweetness in the scent. Not cloying, and one of the smoother lines in Slumberhouse.
As time moves on the scent projects further afield from the body.
Radiates out more – must be body heat activating the scent ?
Deep Green. Smell of cut pine tree trunk and bark.
Illusions of Christmas cake
Hints of resinous notes whispering here and there ?
Quite striking and individual. Not your run of the mill fragrance. This stuff stands out from the crowd. OK its not for everybody but it is to be applauded in the land of Mr Me Too and Mrs Same Here.
This is comfortably unisex as is all of the Slumberhouse offerings so far.
4.1 /5
[update]
Would I wear it ? My preference is toward Norne and then Jeke. Both are less sweet. Going to try and layer Rume with Norne. Don’t think this would layer well with Jeke. They are too wildly different.
Ok, tried it, and so Rume and Norne don’t layer well.

BageToy – 2022-06-21:

5 out of 5

Heavy Heavy Heavy
anybody want to wear root bear or cola
honestly i almost like it if it were less cloying
The burnt sugar thing i like /its just that there is not any lightness
that lets it breath!

antwolf77 – 2022-06-21:

4 out of 5

An odd mix of myrrh, a slightly nutty scent, and a sweet cola that (to me) smells more like some kind of alcoholic currant beverage. It’s probably one of the smoothest from this line as, like the Pear+Olive fragrance from this house, it’s quite sweet, but not in a tacky, oppressive kind of way — nor does it have any of the ashy smoke from the other lines. Although the notes dictate something a little different, the feeling I get from Rume is that I’m sitting in an old, wooden wine barrel that had been used in some bizarre experiment to create a new, rich version of a boozy cola type beverage. It’s lovely, but for those who dig the ashy drama of Jeke, Norne, and Baque, this one is much sweeter. Longevity is nuts, of course; I can smell it after a couple of days, but I think that’s because the scent itself is so strikingly memorable.
While it’s probably more wearable than some of the others, this is certainly not for those prefer the mainstream fragrance counter type of scent, and certainly not for those who like to have the word “sport” tacked onto the end of their fragrances.
If aesthetics, scent-narratives, and experimentation are your thing, take this one for a spin.

almaznyak1979 – 2022-06-21:

3 out of 5

Rume striked me as very Lutens-like. A full bodied composition where a strong resinous presence (myrrh and labdanum) is joined by clove and bay. Somewhere between Serge Noir and Fille En Aiguilles. It has an overall burnt-sugary, sort of roasted, vibe. It’s spicy and slightly (slightly) medicinal. The myrrh remarks its presence with pungent accents while a honeyed note adds even more density.
Good.
Rating: 7/10