Rook Perfumes School is a very limited edition fragrance created as a result of an experiment that explored the smells of school. There are only 100 bottles of this limited edition. It features notes of cold air, trees, moss, concrete floors, olibanum, rubber plimsolls, new books, coffee, pencil shavings and graffitied desks.
Please note that Rook Perfumes' fragrances are vegan with no artificial colorants. You may notice sediment due to high levels of natural materials.
ROOK PERFUMES SCHOOL REVIEWS
Fragrantica: One of the most photorealistic fragrances i’ve encountered… I can see why it’s so polarizing / why some find it repulsive haha. It’s so beyond strange; this might be a niche reference but it totally reminds me of the student store that we took turns working at in grade school — erasers, pencils, notepads, plastic, in an old cedar cabinet crudely painted with a jungle mural in house paint. This even captures the scent of the kids I remember working alongside (rain soaked jackets, tennis shoes, some kind of mustiness lol (i’d probably attribute to the moss)), down to the smell of the stale coffee wafting from the teacher’s lounge. I could seriously go on and on about different scenes that this reminds me of but I’ll spare even more verbosity. very nostalgic in a sincere and unromantic way, it’s kind of disgusting but i’m so addicted to it.
Fragrantica: Sounded very interesting. The only way to sample it thou was to buy a full bottle. So I blindly did and here is what happened… Thoughts of a full bottle… I do get the concrete at the beginning. Then it’s Rubber hose on the nose. Or better yet, up the nose. It most definitely is a pencil eraser rubber. That being said, pencil eraser is the predominant smell for the entire duration. And that would be a good 7 to 8 hours. After it settles, pencil sharpener shavings tame the rubber a tiny bit. All in all it’s pure Rubber Eraser. The Pencil shavings and eraser are so vivid. Reminds me of a studio with old school architect drafting tables before CAD (Computer Automated Design). It is definitely a strange one. I like it. I like it a lot but… I can only wear it for myself. The indulgence is all mine.
Fragrantica: This scent is just about as photo-realistic as advertised. It's very dry and very smooth. You can definitely smell the pencils and the chalk. But more than anything, I smell the chalkboard itself, a familiar scent from my years in the classroom. There's also something animalistic in the notes, and there's a coffee finish that almost doesn't belong--we didn't drink much coffee in elementary school, after all. But maybe I'm reading too much into this. Maybe it's supposed to be the scent of a college classroom, full of coffee and bluebooks and bic pens.
Fragrantica: This was the first time I could really understand why people like fragrance. I could not relate to reviews that described an image/setting and were able to pick out individual notes until I smelled this. The rubber, pencil shavings, and ozone come through first. The drydown is an amazing coffee and paper smell (and still pencil shavings). I could not stop smelling my wrist and all I could see was the clearest image of an empty, unlit classroom on a rainy day with the windows cracked and the trees outside. I can smell rained-on corridors and desks. The drydown makes me think of coming inside from the rain with the warmer, more comforting coffee and paper smells. It made me want to start dressing like a tired, middle-aged, divorced teacher who's a softie underneath it all and wearing this daily.
