Zoologist Perfumes
Niche perfumery, one animal at a time.
Zoologist Perfumes is a Canadian niche house founded in Toronto in 2013 by Victor Wong, a video-game artist who fell into perfumery by way of a hotel room scented with high-end toiletries. He started Zoologist as a side project; within a few years it had become his primary work and one of the more critically respected indie houses in North America. The brand's premise is single-minded: every fragrance is named for and built around an animal — Bat, Hyrax, Beaver, Civet, Macaque, Hummingbird, Cardinal — and Wong commissions independent perfumers to interpret the brief, often in distinctive or provocative ways. The catalogue spans cult favourites by perfumers including Antonio Gardoni, Sarah McCartney, Paul Kiler, Ellen Covey, and Daniel Pescio. Zoologist has won multiple Art and Olfaction Awards and is sold direct from Toronto and through specialist niche retailers worldwide.
Releases
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
