Rhinoceros Edition 2020

OMG I fricking love this. The opening is SUPER boozy as others have said, but it’s classy whiskey not cheap plonk. The fresh sweet hay & tobacco is glorious and if you get a good snoot full there’s that hint of coffee. As the booze dials down there’s a lovely green patchouli undertone… all I could do all day was inhale deeply & swoon. As soon as my partner got home I insisted he wear it too and it’s just as delightful on him! Seems like I’m lucky that my skin chemistry lusts after Prins scents because IMHO the trash talk from other folk about Rhinoceros is nonsense… (yeah I know it’s subjective and different from skin to skin but… cmon…. It’s magic!) I don’t even really understand the skank others are getting but maybe that’s dumb luck on my skin. F*** this masculine/feminine assessment of scent… what the what?! This is unisex. All perfume is unisex. Like, wear the scents you’re into whether it’s barnyard stank, heady florals, or earthy nature… you do you. I also don’t really understand why folks suggest limiting places to wear it, there’s nothing offensive here so that’s a weird take *shrugs* Anyways, this is my love letter to Rhinoceros. I’m no nose and I’m a noob at perfume because I never knew there were options like THIS! Imma edit this in the future as I discern more of the nuances of this treasure. Also worth noting I have a full bottle of Prin’s Eshu which is very similar (and I bought it blind cause I JUST KNEW) but I reckon Rhinoceros is even better. Fight me.

Tom Ford Tobacco Oud vibes in the beginning ..a bit harsh, very boozy, sorta sweet in a non gourmand way and a little ashy....turns into a more refined Gucci Envy for men. I think it's great...but I like this house ...well, except for Panda..

This just a hot mess of nasty. I Love animalic perfumes but this isn't even animalic, it just smells like a badly constructed perfume., wet soil, wet grass. Some drunk guy wearing a soaking wet leather jacket that has seen better days and it reeks of cigarette smoke and cheap chewing tobacco. He also has bad stale coffee and whiskey breath but he tried to cover it up with minty chewing gum. He was not successful. Glad I didn't pay for this sample. Again it is a smell not a true perfume. A problem I have encountered with this brand so far. It just doesn't make sense as a wearable fragrance.

Intoxicating, earthy wet tobacco, bolstered with booziness and a chocolatey patchouli. A real beauty, with great performance.

Not a King in an Ivory tower. A King between battles on a muddy and bloody battle field. Fires burn in the distance and you stand with your war council staring at a table trying to plan the days ahead. You drink Rum, whiskey, and coffee, The liquor is for the pain the coffee to stay awake. You smoke a pipe with thick dry tobacco leaves to cover up the smell of war. The candles burn around you adding an incense to the air. You feel your feet on the ground standing in the wet moss, you wonder exactly how many died today. Todays battle was won but there is still many to be had.