Hummingbird By Zoologist Extrait de Parfum

Finally a floral fruity that combines white floral and fruity chords in perfect harmony with traces of honey and cream. Complex and elegant. Different from what is commonly known as floral fruity in the mass market. The opening is very intense, a bit cloying, mainly due to the honey traces mixed with indol. In a few minutes all is balanced and there you have a classy floral fruity. For executive women and sensitive men. Approved!

On me, this opened as a sweet floral with predominantly honeysuckle, honey and lilac notes, and had a soft, powdery dry down.

It's gorgeous, delicate, ultra feminine, has a vintage quality, and is right up my alley, but I doubt I'd pay $165 a bottle for it.

Update: after 2 days of using a sample from Ministry of Scent, I've changed my mind, and decided to purchase a full bottle.

The longevity is fantastic, and I was incessantly smelling my arm all day, eliciting laughter from my son.

Another STUNNING triumph from Zoologist.

My personal favorite from Zoologist and I'm a 24 year old male. I didn't expect to like Hummingbird so much after reading the notes - I find myself *hating* gourmand/fruit punch-ey/candy women's fragrances, but this one is just exceptional. It would fit on most people of most genders and ages, it is likable in every way and is sexy, classy and fun at the same time... I'm very impressed and I wish Zoologist would create more fragrances in this range, less powdery/woody scents and more vibrant/sparkling ones. Hummingbird will catch people's attention with its uniqueness, balance and confident boldness.

Top notes are fruity (I smell grape mostly), middle notes are yellow florals (the switch from fruit to floral is impressive as it stays similar, but also changes drastically) and the dry-down is a fruit&flower paste on discreet wood.

Have you read/watched The Perfume? Well Hummingbird is my idea of Grenouille's ultimate.

I blind bought a bottle of this (I love hummingbirds and I love all the notes, it just made sense!) and I'm absolutely adoring it. It's very aptly named; it brings to mind a garden full of bright, nectar-filled flowers with hummingbirds buzzing and flitting around overhead. It's more floral than fruity, but not the sharp, heady sort of floral, but a natural, almost green, honey-tinged floral. The pear is prominent as well, and takes on a dewy, fresh scent rather than a sweet one.

I was worried around the whipped cream note because I don’t like a lot of sugary sweetness, but while Hummingbird is certainly sweet, it’s a bright, natural sort of sweetness, like freshly cut fruit or a bouquet of wildflowers. Not an edible, dessert-like sweetness.

It’s a soft and subtle scent, but the sillage is rather impressive: it’s almost enveloping and I love the way it seems to surround me after I spray it. Overall it’s a gorgeous fragrance and does of a wonderful job of expressing the nature of one of my favorite animals!

Massive 90's-style, intense, borderline screechy, floral. I know I used the word "screechy", but interestingly enough, sometimes I like florals like that, and I like Hummingbird a lot. It's super bright and just screams SPRING! I don't notice any particular flowers, just an overall intense floral with fruity undertones, mostly wild cherry, as well as fresh floral undertones that could be peony, I can't be sure. When I smell this, it's like the sun is so bright that it blinds me. Bold florals aren't really my style, I am more of a woods and resins lover, but I must say that this fits beautifully into the Zoologist line because it's almost like an experience rather than just a scent. You will not only see the world though the hummingbird's eyes, but you will also be part of it. The artistry is commendable.

Update: Like became Love! It’s really an exquisite floral, and I now pick up the creamy base note, which I didn’t before. This truly smells like a literal vintage 80's-90's perfume. Red Door, Sunflowers, Poison, Boucheron...makes me think of stuff like that. When perfume had a million notes, artistry, voluptuousness and didn't smell so synthetic.