Rentless

Patchouli and incense with a twist of bitter citrus, a whiff of cotton candy and aged whiskey barrels, then a dry down of sweet smoke, molasses, leather, and more patchouli. It's a confusing scent. The sales associate sprayed me with it and I regretted it immediately because I knew it would stay with me all afternoon and it didn't immediately strike me as something I liked. It smelled like some fruitchouli nonsense, a discordent attempt to make patchouli and citrus and sugar into a unisex frag. But 20 minutes after I left the store, I had to turn around and come back to buy a bottle of Rentless. It had mellowed and surrounded me in a rich, bittersweet cloud of fragrance, woody, smoky, herbaceous, spicy, sweet, sensual but standoffish and complicated, and I fell in love with it. Sometimes it reminds me of Tabu, or what I imagine Tabu originally smelled like. No cheap, one-dimensional root beer and nag champa but a well-thought out combination of darkness and sweetness, masculine and feminine. I was on the fence about it even a month after buying a bottle because it's such an almost spiritually evocative scent for me, and I was only wearing it when I planned to be alone, but I was in my cups and spritzed some on before going out with my boyfriend the other night and he loved it, said that this perfume was made for me, and I was gratified to know that he thinks that this odd little perfume that I have come to love so much actually smells good on me and suits my personality. The solid perfume does not do it justice. The reviewer who said the solid smells like pickles is not entirely wrong. There's a weirdness to the solid. Sometimes I throw it in my purse or luggage, thinking I'll get my Rentless fix from that but it's a very different scent, thinner and flatter and with a weird tang in the top notes. Some of Lush's scents are like that, just totally off and disappointing in the solid form. The liquid perfume is where it's at. Longevity is 24+ hours on skin. Lasts until laundry day on clothes. Projection is massive if you're heavy-handed like me. This is my current favorite from Lush, after Breath of God, which is a more cerebral and contemplative smoky scent, and Lust, which is an appropriately named raunchy jasmine.

I recently (in December 2025) bought a 1 oz. bottle of this off of Mercari for a price I don’t want to admit... I’m an admirer of almost everything LUSH makes, but I’m a newer fan. So, there’s several scents in the LUSH family I’m unfamiliar with. I don’t remember how I initially found out about Rentless, but I was instantly intrigued. Maybe it was the price? I was like WHY is any LUSH perfume going for $200+?! Well, I splurged and blind bought this and let me tell you — it’s everything I hoped for and a little more. To me and my nose, it reminds me of a foamy, overflowing, boozy cola. It’s decadent and rich. Very strong and long lasting. I feel like it’s a perfect fall / winter scent, but I plan on wearing it year round when I want something a little more niche. I adore it, and I wish LUSH would bring it back in some form (body spray, perfume, or hell - even a bath bomb). True story — yesterday I went to Buffalo Wild Wings and I had THREE different people comment on it. One of the bartenders told another bartender how I smelled “so freaking good”. She probably complimented me 2-3 times. But then one girl walked up and asked the bartender “why does it smell like a Christmas tree right here” and I laughed... The bartender said “she’s crazy, please never change what you’re wearing”, but the other girl said I smelled like a bag of pine cones, lol. Really, scents are subjective things. This one is easily my favorite LUSH scent ever, but you might hate it... I don’t know how? But you might. I know this scent was discontinued years ago, but I beg the Lords of LUSH to please bring this back. It would be the ultimate “LUSH Club” release, and would be a smash hit sell out.

This was the first fragrance I ever tried, and it's my absolute favourite still. Rentless is deep and warm, but at the same time sweet and sharp. It opens with an incense-like scent: it's woody and spicy - a very rounded and deep scent, if that makes sense. After half an hour or so, the citrus cuts through. It's sharp, but not overpowering: the woody/spicy notes ground the fragrance so that it's warm and mellow despite the sharpness of the grapefruit. And then by the end of the day, it becomes a sweet vanilla and caramel scent. It's very warm and comforting to me, but not cloying, because the wood/spice and citrus are still there. When you smell this fragrance, the different notes are not really distinct: it's more like adjusting a sliding scale, where different notes lead the fragrance at different times, but the other notes are alway still present. It's a coherent, rounded scent all the way until you wash it off. For longevity, I usually find myself wanting to touch up after six hours or so - Lush scents tend to fade quite quickly on me, but Rentless seem to be slightly more long-lasting (and the solid version is easy enough to use on the go) . As for sillage, I'd say arm's length, but I only use three sprays in the morning, so I think you can definitely jack it up by using more. Like I said, this was my first ever fragrance, and I honestly think it's ruined me forever for any other fragrance. None of the other perfumes/colognes I've tried has this amount of complexity and depth. If Lush discontinues Rentless I'd actually cry.

A slow and strangely enjoyable death by sticky-pine-sap-patchouli. ... To my nose this is a rich, super-naturalistic fougere with patchouli and other elements combining to stand in for the oakmoss. A generous dose of sweet and comforting coumarin, plenty of sticky leather labdanum, mossy, very green and woody patchouli, a hint of herbal lavender, a lick of natural liquorice and an uplifting zesty infusion of grapefruit peel. Rentless reminds me of the aromas of newly sawn pine trees and rubbing my fingers on the gummy underside of freshly unfurled fern leaves. It's a walk in a slightly surreal evergreen forest, where the dark emerald vegetation crushed underfoot is pungent, sweet and larger than life. Heady, fulsome, earthy, verdant and bittersweet. I imagine it to have been whipped up by a Shakespearean apothecary. Tenacious longevity and it is strong, the first time I wore this I overdid it with the spritzing and it nearly killed me - I felt as though the ferns were curling themselves around me, sticking to me, squeezing. The forest floor had taken on a treacly quicksand quality and was sucking me into its green viscous depths. I really like it. p.s. I'm not usually into layering perfumes but this works well with dark rose scents - it's good under Miller Harris rose en noir (which is perfectly beautiful on its own, by the way) - it adds a green, herbaceous mulch and the grapefruit zest keeps the rose lively for longer.

I don't know what's going on with the notes here but the most obvious note missing is patchouli. Here are the ingredients: DRF Alcohol , Fragrance , Patchouli Oil (Pogostemon cablin) , Water (Aqua) , Glycerine , Labdanum Resinoid (Cistus ladaniferus) , Tonka Absolute (Dipteryx odorata) , Grapefruit Oil (Citrus paradisi) , *Anise Alcohol , *Citral , *Coumarin , *Eugenol , *Farnesol , *Geraniol , *Limonene , *Linalool . The perfume is absolutely incredible. It is one of my favorite patchouli perfumes ever, along with Lord of Misrule, also by Lush. The patchouli is earthy, sweet, and sort of reminiscent of a damp forest. When you combine that with tonka, labdanum, and a touch of anise, it's an incredible combination. I don't know why people voted anise as super prominent because it disappears after about 10 minutes. (Maybe they reviewed the perfume right after application?) The stars of the show here, imho, are that lovely, sweet, earthy patchouli, and labdanum. If you like patchouli, orientals, and unisex perfume, you really have to try this. It is so well done and so yummy almost. Spicy, sweet, earthy, and super sexy, imho. I've also layered this with Lush's I'm Home, which is cacao pod, vanilla, and benzoin, and it is delicious. Who doesn't love a chocolatey sweet patchouli?! I own around 30 Lush perfumes and this is in my top 10 for sure, maybe even top 5.

This is an absolute beauty and definitely a new favorite for me. Rentless is complex and full of character, it's the kind of scent that's bound to become your signature should you get used to how multifaceted it is. It opened up with strong labdanum, then suddenly there were anise, vanilla and cardamom, then the whole composition was set ablaze and faded into a campfire smoke, after that the geranium and citruses appeared and it was like a meadow has bloomed again after the fire. All that time, patchouli and a signature Lush powdery, vanilla bean pod-like notes were in the background. It is very hard to describe, as it's not a singular scent but practically a story unfolding on your skin. You just have to try it for yourself and see what it tells you. In general Rentless is a very comforting fragrance, sweet but not in a gourmand way. It's something you can keep for special occassions only or make it your companion and watch it transform your everyday moments. Looks like it will be the latter for me.

Love loooooove love this. Just love this. Takes a while to make its transfiguration on my skin but when it completes she’s a heroine, she’s Joan of Arc. She starts off a bit rough & unwelcoming, a bit impure, myrrh like but an unfiltered, resinous tar...in fact there is no myrrh in this one at all, its the combination of labdanum patchouli and grapefruit that seem to create this effect. Once this fragrance develops and warms up on your skin, melts into it in an hour or so, more of the tonka roundness comes through. The grapefruit and small amount of geranium play into the interesting juxtaposition, lifting and brightening the whole up. I can’t really define what it is that makes Rentless so interesting and soooo intoxicating, not in a sticky or sexual way, but in a deep, mysterious and almost mystical way. I simply love being surrounded by it. Its like a heros journey, the adventure of the Alchemist, finding his gold close to home.

Mmm, this is a beauty. When I opened my package I was pleasantly surprised, because I couldn’t remember the notes of this one. My first spray was a gorgeous luscious cloud of richly dense amber. Once dried on my skin it was sweet and buttery leather. I had to look up the notes! The heavy hitters listed make sense to me - I hardly notice citrus other than a slight flutter at dry down. For me this is predominantly Labdanum, Tonka, Leather, and Vanilla, in that order. To me, when Tonka is allowed to shine, it smells like a smokey leather vanilla, more resembling the vanilla pod. That’s exactly what I get here. After about ten more minutes of settling on the skin I can detect the anise and peppery hint of geranium. The pepper and anise compliment the top four notes wonderfully. This is lovely. This would also go well with a dense patchouli if you wanted to tone down the anise and up the Oriental Femme Fatale vibes.

Nauseating yet scrumptious? On me, this opens as a patchouli and anise bomb with a small hint of gourmand stickiness. After a half hour, this pulls insanely sweet on my skin and very resinous. Not Snow Fairy cotton-candy sweetness, but more of a “forgotten bag of caramel candy dropped in the woods that has since become shrouded in mist and sap” type vibe. Edible if it weren’t for the earthiness. This fragrance gives me a minor headache but I can’t stop putting my wrists up and taking a whiff. After lingering for hours, the scent became a non-offensive lush incense, as others have mentioned here. Tonka and patchouli are the notes that last the longest for me. Lasts 12+ hours on skin and near eternal on clothing. Silage is also a beast. Wouldn’t recommend for a blind buy.. it is a bit cloying, but it is something I’d recommend any lush fragrance fan to sample.

I burned through almost a bottle of this fragrance back in the day, but I kind of went off it after the time I wore it to class and someone said the entire room smelled like strawberry candy. It's definitely a lot sweeter than the scents I usually go for, and once the thought had entered my mind, I couldn't get away from the e-numbers-filled hyper-fruit note. I decided to give it a second look today, since I just picked up a sample of Whisky 1969 by Thin Wild Mercury, and on first sniff I was instantly reminded of Rentless. And sniffing Rentless in 2022... man, this shit is genuinely weird. It's a blast of caramelised fruit, spices and old leather. None of Lush's scents could be described as subtle, but this one is HUGE. It's kind of genius and I'm sad they've stopped making this. When Lush gets it right they really get it right

Oh WOW! This was love at first smell! I cannot believe this could get a single bad review, its so amazing! The opening is BIG and smells of cloves to me (I know this isn't listed as a note). Its so complex, there are lots of notes which strangely work beautifully together. But the dry down is where the magic happens.......it becomes sticky and syrupy and almost cloying with the labdanum & tonka but there is an underlying animalic note in there amongst the sweetness. For me, this is a mix of my 2 favourite perfumes ever; Zoologist Bee & L'Artisan Dzing. All honeyed and sickly from bee and dirty circus from dzing! A true masterpiece imo and I will never be without this! Projection & longevity very good and I get asked constantly what I'm wearing. I lie of course......I'd never let this beauty out of my closet 🤩🤩

Resinous, foresty, sweet. earthy. spicy. This is my favourite Lush fragrance and one that I always get complimented on. It has an underlying warm sweetness and a fresh forest-sap earthiness. There is patchouli but it is not a hippy scent- possibly due to he grapefruit whch sparkles amidst the deep evergreen. It DOES smell like christmas trees but there is not a hint of synthetic pine. Scrape some resin from a fir tree and that sticky warm ambery but fresh scent is what this encapsulates. If I was sitting by a deep green fresh christmas tree, sipping a sweet vanillary dark boozy drink in a log cabin by a fire in a nothern forest, this is what it would smell like. The solid is sadly a grim grey colour- it should be deep dark velvet green! The liquid is a gorgeous rich dark amber and the better buy. . Love this!

I love this scent, and the fact it’s discontinued makes me so hesitant to use my bottle. It’s incensy and heavy while still fresh - reminds me of burning patchouli incense at a campsite, sitting around one of those old wood picnic tables with friends in the evening. There’s a pine smell that isn’t in the notes (I think from the grapefruit mixed with patchouli which also isn’t in the notes but is definitely there), plus the sweet tonka bean, plus a little musty dusty something. A friend came over right after I sprayed it during the summer and said “your apartment smells like a Christmas store off-season” lol which isn’t far from the truth, but the drydown is all tonka with a hint of patchouli incense.

Once upon a time, I was perusing the fragrance section in Lush and happened upon one curiously named 'Rentless.' I tested it, raised my eyebrows, and purchased it on the spot. It was from that moment I realized I wanted to smell like pinecones, boggy sweetness, and burnt sugar cookies. There's a healthy slug of fir balsam absolute on a bed of patchouli, vanilla, tonka, labdanum: there you go, the notes my schnoz detects. Now it's time to insert how it feels: a bit festive, somewhat melancholy, and very comforted. It is like a gourmand amber-fougere, feeling aromatic, sweet, and deliciously resinous.

This started my love of perfume - the discontinuation of Rentless has led me down a bottomless rabbit hole of trying to find something similar to replace it with. Theres nothing like it - 'warm spicy' alternatives don't capture the earthy, gutwrenching, sweet spice of it. Friends that have smelt it on me a million times still say "GOD you smell good!", and first encounters comment on it without fail. Lasting power is eternal, and its a bit hippy without smelling of pachouli or incense. This smells like a high end niche perfume but cost nothing. I can't bear that my bottle is nearly empty...

This is my signature. I've not connected with any other fragrance more than this one. It's very sweet, smoky, incense-y, with a very slight kick of citrus. I first picked it up senior year of high school, and I remember not liking it as much at first, wishing I got LoM instead.. But when I drove into school one freezing January morning blasting The Clash from my car, wearing my trusty old dr martens, dad's leather jacket, and this perfume, from then point on it's been my go-to. I'm so heartbroken that Lush is trying to discontinue this. Guess I'm gonna have to stock up!

I am madly in love with Rentless. I find it hard to pin down, but on me the dry down is a fantastic flower garden of semi-sweet lusciousness. I don't get a lot of patch, or fruit and no pickles. It is blended so beautifully that everything just comes together and stays together for hours and hours. The gorgeous scent wafts around the room and everyone seems to be very taken with it. Yup, I wear this to work and it is summer. I do think this need a lot of warmth to bring out the perfection that lays at the heart. Well, for me anyway.

Rentless smells like Christmas in a bottle to me! Very definitely a Winter fragrance, with sweet and spicy notes, almost like Chai, or when mixing a Christmas pudding. It took me a while to like, but it keeps growing on me and it is rapidly becoming a favourite. It lasts for absolutely AGES and sillage is pretty good too. It attracts far more compliments than some of my absolute favourite (and pricier) perfumes! As with many Lush fragrances, it's not for everyone, but I am definitely a fan.

rentless, my darling, i miss you so bad. i still haven't finished my tiny little pot of solid perfume from years and years ago (because i've been rationing it like a maniac), but one day i will, and i'm dreading it. like a reviewer below, my panic at the impending end and my desperation to find a dupe is what led me into a broader interest in fragrances -- so thank you, rentless, for that, but in the end i really do just want you again. i'm on my hands and knees, lush. bring her back to us

I had this for over a year and left it on the shelf because I wasn’t impressed initially. HOWEVER, I just sprayed it on and DAMN, this is deliciously amazing! On me it smells like burnt caramel, Cola and lime - it’s fizzy, smokey, sweet and rich! I’m obsessed! Smells more expensive than its price tag too. Definitely my go to autumn scent this year! I usually pair my outfits with my perfume and this, to me, is a rock’n roll one - all black, leather jacket, smokey eyes and red lipstick.