Rume

Rume by Slumberhouse Slumberhouse is a niche brand that's highly regarded in the perfume community for its innovative approach to fragrance creation which are unique & complex. It was released in 2011 and is inspired by an explorer's hideaway. The scent is a blend of resin, booze, hazelnut and root beer, with a strong and syrupy opening. It's a unique and complex fragrance that's perfect for those who want something different. Rume is a particularly intriguing scent, often described as a "olfactive exploration of decay and rebirth". The fragrance features notes of: * Damp earth * Moss * Wood decay * Resins * Spices Rume is often praised for its ability to evoke a sense of damp, mossy forests, with a hint of decay and rebirth. It's a scent that's both earthy and mystical, perfect for those who appreciate complex, nuanced fragrances. Rume is often cited as one of the brand's standout scents. If you're looking for a unique, thought-provoking fragrance, Rume might be worth exploring! The fragrance has a strong and long-lasting scent, with the heart notes lasting for more than 18 hours on the skin. It's a great choice for a night out or a special occasion. Overall, Rume is a unique and complex fragrance that's perfect for those who want something different. However, it may not be the best choice for everyday wear due to its strong and long-lasting scent. Additionally, the fragrance has been discontinued, making it harder to find.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Rume, along with Bogue Noun, is proof that you can go too far in a medicinal-herbal direction even for me. it is obnoxiously strong, sweetened bay leaf. Jesus fucking christ it needs to take a chill pill. The potpourri smell other reviewers mention is very strong as well once I make the connection. Usually I’m a big Slumberhouse fan and I respect their willingness to push the envelope on potent, dark-toned scents. But Rume is a swing and a miss.

To put it bluntly, spiced cola. But it's much MUCH more than that. Sweetened resin sparring with balsams and a touch of something spicy. It hits hard, this one. One spray is more than enough, most of the times, and it lasts FOREVER. I sprayed this at 0930 this morning, and now (it's 1330) it's still powering on. I look forward to smelling this tomorrow well into the afternoon... At times, it comes across as slightly-turned penicillin, or perhaps something Chinese medicinal bought from a dodgy dispensary with a hidden attic, and other times it comes across as the ubersweet brandy my mum used to make (useless reference for you, I know). For me it works on so SO many levels. Sweet. Resiney. Basey. Spicy. Dark. Quite often, whenever you try to compare something against something else, you inevitably come up against the "you can't compare apples to oranges" adage, or something equally glib or trite. But the truth is, ANY time you aim to compare ANYTHING, and I mean ANY variable for any qualitative or quantitative reason, against ANOTHER variable that is not identical, you realise that you're dealing with a range of continua in multitude of dimensions, and you do, in fact, end up feeling like you're comparing a freshly picked Fuji apple harvested from a small orchard in northwest Aomori-ken to supermarket-bought Hyuganatsu from an Aeon Mall in southwest Miyazaki-ken. Nothing compares to this. NOTHING.

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.

Definitely not impressed. This is a simple, medicinal smelling camphorous labdanum driven composition with a ton of cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg. Rume suffers for hype and unfortunately just doesn’t live up to the reputation it’s earned amongst all the weirdo fragbros that foam at the mouth, selling off their entire Aventus collection, in order to secure a $1000 bottle of something mediocre. Think of it as a fall time spiced yankee candle. It’s sweet, spicy, smells like there’s wooden floors mixed into the candle aroma. But that’s it. Dozens of similar fragrances exist that capture this similar aroma. This smells incredible indie and honestly I can see why Josh has improved on this DNa in newer releases like Mond. 5/10

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.

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

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.

ISO of a bottle of Rume, will purchase or trade