Beaver

Beaver is a grotty little old animal, hating me from within the safe confines of his ashen home. And I love it. Not only do I want it, when I get it I will BE the beaver! Reclusive in my fortress of solitude. The soft buttery orris embraces me like no other, Beaver’s Iris and Cedarwood whispers comfort into my world-weary heart. I layered it with Cacharel’s Amor Amor, and the combo just sums me up. The once-beautiful teen girl from the 90s, all grown up, chain smoking, bad breath, coffee and gin pulsing through my veins where innocent and optimistic blood once pumped. It’s initially metallic; it’s citrus-infused animalic leathers providing a sharp twang of savoury WTF. It soon dries to something very close to the skin that’s barely detectable beyond straight nose-to-pulse-point, and therefore is wholly inoffensive as a functional everyday scent. It is so soft, I will wear it out and no one will know. But I will know. Beaver is my silent protest. Piss me off and I’ll inhale deeply and squirt a psychic jet of beaver butt juice in your general direction.

Floral leather. Not what I was expecting on first blast. What is this clean/ leafy/ aquatic opening??? That quickly dissipates though and you're left with the main body of the fragrance, which is a hygienic but somewhat intense animalic leather on a bed of pretty but somewhat soapy florals. The leather has a rubbery edge to it but that's basically it. This is a very well groomed beaver, coming to visit with a lovely spring bouquet. They apparently removed the smoke and ash notes in the reformulation, which makes me sad because I do love those, but I trust this house so I'm sure this is better (I still would love to try the pre-reformation Beaver, though). The image is of a cool northern summer on a lake, with sprightly flowers perfuming the air. You're close enough to the beaver's den to make out it's musky smell but it's not overwhelming. Another winner from this amazing house.

A distant relative of yours has passed, and it has somehow fallen upon your mother to sort out the old man's hunting lodge. To your young mind, this is vaguely intriguing. When she brings you a long (she couldn't find a baby sitter for the day), you sit on the aged hardwood floors, lulled to contemplative silence by the glass eyes of the trophies mounted on the walls. Your mother is nearby somewhere, you can't quite see her, but you smell the bright, sharp tang of the citrus yellow antiseptic she is using to clean up with. Her floral perfume that has suffused you for the long, car ride you'd fallen asleep on coming up here clings to your soft sweater. The dry, whispery, skank of the fur of long dead, taxidermied animals creeps at the edges of your senses. There is ash in the long dead fireplace.

I purchased the entire sample collection of Zoologist, and I think Beaver might be my favorite. It's definitely the most wearable, and I'm thinking about buying a bottle. This is a musky floral scent that in contrast to its name is very fresh. It has a ungendered sexiness that works really well with my skin. Like all perfumes in this line, you really have to sample it before you buy—these are strange, evocative scents that will not appeal to everyone. I recommend getting the complete sample collection. You will hate some if not many of them (for me: Bee, Panda, Seahorse, Cow, Rhinoceros, Musk Deer, and Dragonfly were all gross,) but in the process of sniffing, you'll learn A LOT about notes and what you like in perfume. My other favorites in this line were Squid, Camel, and Snowy Owl.

Wet Smokey Floral Musk🌲🌊 I actually enjoy how quirky this fragrance is🤔🫶 I love how at first there's this strong smokey iris opening, while citrus and linden trickling behind it🍋 It reads more masculine- however I would layer this with Zoologists Camel for more sweetness👌🐫For about 15min it has a powdery ambience however right after the fragrance melts witb the skin, magic happens🪄✨️The castoreum, oakmoss and vanilla made the amber just expand beautifully😍 Great longevity and it's definitely for someone looking for a niche artistic animalic musk✨️ Zodiac Trio ⬆️Capricorn☀️Saggitarius 🌜Capricorn

This is one of the animals from The Wind in the Willows... it’s tenderer than reality. It talks! Real beavers can’t. It has thoughts more than it has instincts. The lightest "castoreum" is there from beginning, as a background, and stays as a background at all times. The frontstage lights are played around airy-aldehydes and a very suede-soft leather note. I don’t feel it as a super complex fragrance, I admire it as a soft power construction. From a pure olfactory classification it deserves deference as not every so often tapped territory: “ozonic-leather anybody”? Hello? Is anybody there? ;)

This scent is a masterpiece. I love wearing it before I go somewhere banal, Like the grocery store. I got a compliment. I just tossed my head in the air and let her know it was my Beaver she was smelling. I don't think she knew what to say. Dam gurl, no really, Dam gurl, I think I'm going to go build one.

This is light musk with a green floral note (Linden), and castoreum, but not enough to be obnoxious. It's tender and gentle and I think a travel size will be going on my wish list.

This one comes on super clean, which was not expected at all. I get the 'fresh open air' air note. It is beautiful, like mountain air. Slightly sweet and icy, more like a sensation than a smell. It reminds me of Demeter's Snow but it is much nicer. For a little while I smell something like baby powder on my skin. Perhaps that is the light musk shining through. You would be forgiven for thinking that a lot of the advertised notes are not in this. I do not smell dark woods or leather. I do not get anything dark or deep from this at all. Its progression is more like a brook that starts at the top of a mountain and snakes its way down into the warmer reaches of a grassy valley. Instead of timber, foliage and dank fur I get a stream. It would take a stretch of the imagination to arrive at beaver. Nevertheless, it is a nice clean smell with a unique opening of 'air'. This is a good scent to layer with other scents. It is a rather simple smell that could add atmosphere to a more full bodied scent.

I honestly don’t understand where all the negative comments are coming from. As another reviewer mentioned, "It smells like a cheap cleaning product and has plenty of rose." Personally, I didn’t detect any rose at all, and if I ever came across a cleaning product that smelled like this, I’d be extremely surprised. It’s a nice fragrance with hints of soap, smoke, and a subtle musk in the background. The scent conjures up an image in my mind of a bowl of soapy water, just used to wash my hands while camping by a river, with the smell of campfire smoke lingering in the air, late summer, with woods nearby. But keep in mind, fragrances evoke a different image for everyone. Although it's not unpleasant, I would say it might not necessarily appeal to everyone. You have to try it, but I’d say there’s a good chance you’ll like it.

You have to let this one set and develop onto the skin. The opening is very fresh/clean (agreeing with the ones that say its soapy) with a soft musk. It does not come off as over powering for me but it has good projection at first. After a couple of hours it definitely sets into a more sweet and powdery scent. I definitely get more of the amber and vanilla with a little of the musk on skin. I think it's beautiful and very interesting scent. As someone that leans into more of the gourmand, I appreciate the unique blend of the vanilla and iris. I can't say this is anything I smelled before and a great introduction to musk for myself. A solid 8/10. I would like it to be a little stronger but I can see this one to be a great scent to layer with.

This fragrance is much more beautiful than I expected. I was expecting Beaver to be a heavy dense musky anamalic scent. While the musk accord is pervasive, it isn't overpowering. It is just enough to be continuously pleasing and apparent. This fragrance reminds me of the smells of camping in the late Spring. The ash and ceder notes definitely create a camp fire feel. The musky accord mimics the earthy dampness that is especially pungent in the early morning. And then there is a gorgeous sweetness that emerges that screams the beauty of Spring, this accord is a beautiful mingling of the vanilla and Iris notes. This is a beautiful fragrance!!

I was taken aback a bit upon first sniff, surprised by the aroma wafting from my hand, yet intrigued. As I enjoy scents which are a bit challenging or innovative, I of course kept sniffing... My thoughts drifted to a cottage my family used to own, perched within a shadowed stand of cedars that lay near the edge of a woodland swamp. I loved to go trudging through the damp and shadowy wood to navigate the sunlit pools- this perfume captures that atmosphere- a temple in chartreuse- permeated by the sweet decay of fallen tree-limbs, the green mosses and ferns, the musky-peaty earth at one's feet. Beautiful!

I liked it a lot. Such a beautiful musky animalic fragrance. The animal accord is definitely softened by citrus and florals notes. It's slightly weaker than I expected but it still takes the stage. It's definitely the main note just not as aggressive as those in t rex or jungle jezebel by Sarah baker. This fragrance is smoother, better blended, not as edgy. It's definitely slightly safer. It still smells amazing to me and I love it. Today I also tried white suede by tom Ford and it has those musky warmer notes too but it leans more feminine and more floral.

IMHO Beaver is one of those brave creations that are called to claim the position animalics deserve in the world of fragances. The opening feels like a beaver tail slapping your face and bringing your nose back to the land from those no-quite-challenging aromas that we're used to, then it becomes smooth and it feels warm and elegant. What suprised me the most was the drydown, when the animalic feeling shares its place with some other fresh/citrus whiff which was totally unexpected and definitely pleasant for me.

(4/5) Initially it is subtle, feminine and floral - I loved it...but then as it started to dry the woody notes(and vegetation) started to come through more and I wasn't as huge on those notes. A couple hours after applying it was quite pleasant again - light, natural, floral and somehow familiar smelling..reminded me of spring time. Though it is a nice perfume and I did like it, I'm not sure I would splurge on a big bottle.

Green and aquatic on opening - crushed green leaves and river water underpinned with smoke. Like the damp, ashy embers of a campfire next to a river. The iris then comes through smelling sweet and powdery, bringing with it the musky animal aspect. Smells kind of like a warm, damp horse but in a nice way. After a couple of hours it turns sweeter and more floral, with the castoreum giving a background bitterness.

Beaver is a bit different than I expected. It starts off very soapy and almost aldehydic. But as it goes along that linden blossom really makes its presence known. It becomes a very big citrus yellow floral. As the dry down appears it gets more musky, and earthy. There is a wet and murky quality here that you would think would be off putting but it works. A well executed soapy, floral earthy, aquatic musk.

This is so specific, but this smells like those "please touch" natural history museum displays with animal pelt specimens, but with a transparent soapy note over it! That's not a bad thing, though. It's a very nostalgic scent to me, and this is the first animalic musk that I've really liked and won't get a headache from wearing. I fully expected a fecal musk bomb, but that's not what it is at all!

Clean, musky, floral. Very linear, not overtly strange or unique. Not very animalic or really not very anything, everything here is quite balanced and reasonable. Sits low on the skin and has no intention of offending. So far the least 'out there' Zoologist I've tried, but for some that may be a compliment. 7/10