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Zoologist Perfumes

Bat 2020 is an exercise in controlled dissonance.

Comme Des Garçons

Kyoto was designed as a meditation on Buddhist and Shinto spiritual practice, and Bertrand Duchaufour's dedication to incense as both structure and subject is complete.

Marc Jacobs

Laurent Le Guernec's Rain Splash 2016 captures the moments after summer rain with considered accuracy: wet grass and clementine in the opening with the green-resinous character of cypress — a citrus-fresh accord with structural depth.

Bond No. 9

Astor Place opens with violet leaf's distinct green-metallic coolness, mandarin orange providing a brief citrus brightness before the more distinctive materials arrive.

Avon

Avon Signature is a clean aromatic with a fresh-wood structure — built for workday wear rather than statement-making.

Molinard

Molinard's Musc is not the soft, skin-close musk of flankers and fabric-softener references but something more architectural.

Marc Jacobs

Part of Marc Jacobs' limited Splash series, Rain attempts to capture the sensory memory of a rainstorm rather than resort to the synthetic marine accords that dominated aquatic perfumery in the early 2000s.

Montale

Crystal Aoud opens with melon, mandarin, and green apple — fruit that reads bright and slightly aqueous rather than candied.

Montale

A plum and orange opening that is immediately dark — not the bright, clear citrus of a fresh cologne but something deeper, the plum pulling the fruit toward macerated rather than candy-sweet.

Avon

Miami Party opens on a juicy tropical salvo — blood orange and kumquat cutting bright and tart, with pitahaya adding an exotic, slightly vegetal sweetness that announces the fragrance's intentions up front.

Avon

Simple Elements Meadow Dew opens with a convincing green-fresh accord — ivy and cucumber together with water notes that give the composition a cool, dewy quality, like early morning in a garden after rain.

Marc Jacobs

Rain is the most atmospheric entry in Marc Jacobs' Splash series, built on the sensory impression of a rainstorm rather than any conventional aquatic formula.

Avon

An Avon holiday flanker built on the original Jet Femme architecture, this 2010 release layers tropical warmth over an aquatic-floral core.

Montale

Rose and geranium at the top with patchouli already pressing in — herbal-floral with no easing-in period.

Victoria'S Secret

Very Sexy for Him 2 opens with a sharp aromatic crackle — green bell pepper and juniper berry over a sage-aldehyde lift.