Zoologist · 2019 · Céline Barel

Squid

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

VersionExtrait de Parfum

Pink pepper, dry incense and a sunny glow, then salty brine and sweet, murky ink over ambergris, benzoin and musk.

Zoologist says

You’ll smell Pink Pepper, Solar Salicylate, incense, Black Ink Accord, Salty Accord, opoponax, ambergris, benzoin and musk.

More from Zoologist’s description

It also mentions Tangy brine, Crisp incense and Sweet, cloudy ink.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Squid’s scent picture, a draft: pink pepper, frankincense, sea shell and melon rind, opoponax, ambergris, benzoin drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Squid, top notes: Pink pepper, Solar salicylate, Frankincense

Heartas it settles

Squid, heart: Black ink accord, Sea shell and melon rind, Opoponax

Dry-downwhat stays

Squid, dry-down: Ambergris, Benzoin, Musk, Vanillin (vanilla), Coumarin (tonka)

What’s inside it

What the label names

16 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

3 citrus5 herbs & lavender3 florals1 woods2 sweet1 spices1 musks

7 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

OutlandsAmouage · shares frankincense, opoponax (sweet myrrh), ambergris, benzoin and 1 more$475 for 100 ml
AniNishane · shares pink pepper, ambergris, benzoin and cashmere knit$375 for 100 ml · about the same as Squid’s $200
Spectre GhostFrench Avenue · shares pink pepper, ambergris, benzoin and cashmere knitabout $41 for 80 ml · about a fifth of Squid’s $200

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.