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My scent of the day today is new from zoologist, and it is rabbit.

This one is a journey, and it is one I want to take you on.

Okay, for disclosure, I did receive a sample of this in PR as well as samples of several other zoologists scents, but this was definitely the standout for me in all the samples that I received.

Rabbit feels like something I have seen in my dreams. It's what you imagine a scent called rabbit would smell like. It conjures

fluffy bunnies at twilight and biscuits and carrots and leafy, stretchy vegetables, little burrows,

but also fictional bunnies. Bunnies you read about in children's books. Bunnies who wear clothes.

It evokes breads and jams. It's cottage core in a bottle, but still with that sort of corky off-kilter, even a tad off-putting zoologist DNA that keeps it just a hair away, pun intended, from being mass appealing.

Despite its appeals of innocence and spring and fluffiness and bread, this fragrance

still holds tension. This is one that I'm still getting to know, and each time I wear it,

I glean something entirely new. To show you what I mean, I thought it would be fun to read you

the notes that I've jotted down in my little perfume diary throughout the different times that I've worn it. Okay, this is from the first time. This is direct from the page. It feels like if something nutty, earthy and sweet, maybe something like orisa elegran, cheap mousse, were mixed with the smell of milk bar cake balls or like sugar cookie dough. It's doughy in texture, doughy in smell, but

like raw dough, almost flower-like, but also earthy, nutty, and gently sweet at the same time.

Whoa. Okay. Now here's what I wrote the second time I wore it. A little less poetic if I do say so

myself. Sweet hay, wheat, plastic, apples. Okay. And here

is what I'm getting today right now as I'm wearing it. Upon first spray, I'm hit with an overwhelming

smell of bread and acetone. It's the kind of breadiness that people sometimes associate with

gym socks. A smell that I get can be off-putting, but in the right dose is

magical. Anyway, the breadiness feels kind of grounding to an otherwise, as I mentioned, sort of

pitchy, fruity acetone smell. And the acetone gives the bread a sort of sharpness, and I feel

like it performs similarly to how cardamom might. It adds like a little bit

of structure, a little bit of pointiness. And as the acetone subdues, what emerges is a zesty but

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