You find yourself amidst lush Italian countryside — hay, violet and laurel pulsing with the low arid wind, distant mandarin trees and wildflowers releasing a humming florality and innocence, and the smoke of incense rising against the spire of a nearby monastery. You find yourself amidst lush Italian countryside, knife in hand as you eviscerate the freshly slain underbelly of a cow hung by rope — oxygenated blood spilling into oak buckets and congealing at its base.

There is then an instant departure from this fresh and peculiar opening, as this is definitely a perfume and not an olfactory assault. The developing leather of Cuoium becomes impregnated with the thick musk, sweat and androgens of the burly tanner. Bitter herbal and floral tones emerge — a reminder of the diet of the slain beast, with resinous, oily and metallic facets dissipating as the leather ages on the skin.

In this way, Cuoium is a perfume whose story begins in media res — we see the conception of the leather through to its end. This is surprisingly wearable, as in the air Cuoium has a dark and musky allure, but just be sure not to overspray!

I love the scent of this shaving cream. I swap between scents of TOBS. The texture and lather of the cream is excellent, too, like most other TOBS variants.

I love aniseed (liquorice) flavour, and this Marvis toothpaste doesn’t disappoint. By contrast, some supermarket big brand toothpastes seem to be more diluted and runny lately (a variation of shrinkflation?), but this toothpaste is very thick, which means I use less, compensating for its higher price.

If you like aniseed (the flavour of liquorice), this is a brilliant toothpaste.

A lovely piece of kit at a great price. Arrived in a timely manner and works as expected.

Always perfect

I ended up getting Moth instead of Bee, partly due to stock availability, and partly due to the new packaging that Bee will come in. (I don't like the new packaging at all).

Scent-wise, Moth is unique powdery, dusty/fury, lighty smoky (aptly named Moth cos I would picture the fury moth flying into flame). Additionally sweetened aspect of Honey accord drew me in as well, since I was looking at Bee. But I do not think it's anything like Bee, as the sweetness is not too intense.

Highly recommended to try out Noah's samples/discovery set of this Brand Zoologist. I just wish Noah still have stock of Bee, and in older bottle :(

Bee extract is like a long summer day, it starts off bright and intense with strong notes of hot honey but as it lingers and settles on your senses and skin it’s warm and sweet with notes of incense this settled state lasts for upward of 6 hours. I can’t recommend enough.

If Comme des Garçons Avignon is taken as the prototypical church incense, Rien is the crepuscular but pearly glow emanating from a witches sabbath on the Moon, with a cosmic expansiveness and metallic chill. It is “sterile” and “clean”, but only insofar as the Moon is — unable to sustain infection due to the lack of a viable host. Incredibly special, an etude on aldehydes.

An intoxicating and smouldering musk, dosed with fatty aldehydes and a light rose-leather powder that lasts hours. Truly extraordinary and criminally underrated. For those interested, Iris Cendre by Naomi Goodsir or Under My Skin by Francesca Bianchi both parallel an element of this smouldering musk effect: the former emphasising a more waxy and charred orris/violet and the latter the more animalic powdery smoke.

Not as cyberpunk as advertised but still lovely milky, skin scent. Smells like fresh newborn kinda of scent in my opinion. Poor performance tho

Easily the best shave cream I have used! Super slick, smells amazing, you walk out the door in the morning feeling exactly like the mood copy describes. Try it, you will love it.

Such an awesome fragrance!

This fragrance is simultaneously cold and zesty, fresh and liminal. Great longevity and sillage. I'm in love with the dichotomy of this scent.

Absoloutly love this house and this was my fave out of the lot. Will be getting a full bottle

Lovely scent will get a bottle sometime soon.