Zoologist Perfumes: Squid
Spilled Ink and Deep Thinks: A Profound Fragrance for the Creatively Inclined
That time when your pen broke and leaked all over you at school…
Deep, dark, viscous liquid. It made your paper look like notes scrawled by some wild-eyed genius from the late 1800s. Drink in that awkward but kind of cool memory, and you have a pretty good idea of what Zoologist’s Squid is like.
But now pack it with incense, ambergris, salt and suddenly…
There he is. That quiet guy. The one who won’t speak to anyone, but isn’t standoffish, either. The one who looks like he might be in an indie band, but you can’t imagine him making that much noise.
But he does. You can see for yourself and be stunned, if you can figure out where they play—because this isn’t one of those trendy poser bands that play at “cool” people’s parties.
He wears dark-wash jeans that he didn’t bother to notice whether the cut was in style—slim, baggy, bootcut, whatever fits him and not current trends. He wears faded t-shirts that lost their color naturally, not because he bought them that way.
And he scribbles throughout the entire lecture—what is he scribbling?
Somehow, bafflingly, you’ve never seen him wear sneakers—it’s dress shoes only, for him, paint-splotched and from another century.
You linger by your desk as he gathers his books, pretending you aren’t trying to look at his open notebook, and when you finally catch a glimpse?
MONSTERS. Every kind of many-eyed, multi-headed, alien things from the depths of his imagination. Seeping, seething, darkest and weirdest—this is what he sits and draws the entire time your professor goes on about horrid, formulaic facts and realism.
If you’re sure you want in on all this, you’ll find that the darkest he ever really gets is when, Twizzler hanging out of his mouth, he curses under his breath at the bridge he just can’t connect to his chorus.
Like the enigmatic and intelligent squid—and that equally enigmatic, intriguing guy—Zoologist’s Squid is a deep, complex cologne that captivates with its unexpected charm.
