Met my expectations, and more
Started off very dry on me, like mica and stone. Evolved quickly into sweet dark fruits and woods. My partner liked it a lot, too., although he had to get really close to smell it. Definite winer for me.
Zoologist Bat is a 2016 Art and Olfaction Award Finalist in the Independent category. Released in 2015, then re-released in 2020, created by Prin Lomros, it has notes of Fig, passionfruit, pink guava, soil accord, hay, incense, mineral notes, night-blooming jasmine, animalic notes, leather, mossy stone, teak, vetiver. Startling in the artistic breadth, Bat is a complete original. This is the 2020 edition of bat
From the award entry "The journey of Bat starts at the entrance to a cave in the hillside, shrouded by the swirling fog that is created when the warm air of the outside world meets the cold breath of the dark chambers beneath, heavy with scent of deep-reaching tree roots, moist earth, and dripping limestone walls. At dusk the bat wakes and flies on delicate, leathery wings through the stony labyrinth seeking the balmy air outside, where it drinks from a stream, feasts on wild figs, ripe bananas and juicy soft fruits. Back at its roost, it snuggles with its warm companions and falls asleep again, lulled by the clean, sweet scent of musky fur and skin that is not that different from our own."
Bat is an extrait de parfum.
Fragrantica - "The image of the bat's cave is perfect for this fragrance - a dark paradise. Bat 2020 feels like a distillation of the forbidden fruit: mysterious, slightly off-putting, yet strangely alluring and irresistible."
Fragrantica - "The opening immediately evokes damp earth. Hummus of the forest floor in autumn, wet leaves, pine resin. Sustained musky pine forest, very fresh but quite masculine. Dry down is pine resin/vetiver/musk. Quite a unique fragrance. "
Fragrantica - "SHARP RIPE FRUIT opening that honestly made me flinch in surprise. However, following that intense blast, jasmine and mineral notes bubble to the surface. Its really something unique and different, I never experienced a perfume like this before (Bravo to that!) I honestly felt like Indiana Jones, cautiously walking into a cave to explore its hidden treasures. As it drys down, it becomes a masculine-leaning fruity and sweet perfume! Do not judge it by the initial opening, give it time to show you what it has to offer. Head turner and several people asked me about it (some thought it was a new Creed scent). Is this for everyone? Most definitely not! But its a ride that you have to experience for yourself."
Fragrantica - "Bat is fruity, earthy, and darkly fresh. Velvety yet viscid. It invokes a jungle bat in the depth of night, swooping blind through the vegetation, mouth smeared wet with the literal fruits of its winged labor."
Started off very dry on me, like mica and stone. Evolved quickly into sweet dark fruits and woods. My partner liked it a lot, too., although he had to get really close to smell it. Definite winer for me.