Rume Slumberhouse for women and men

This one does really really weird things on my skin... It literally smells, from start to finish, like urine and rotting hay! I get no root beer, no cola, no spices, nothing sweet at all... Just this foul sour and rotten stench... As I get a slight sourness in Vikt too and the two scents share bay leaf as a note, I am guessing that my skin just hates bay leaf...

If Die Antwoord were a pink flamingo
and Rume were a plume of fume

Their child would be a punk fumingo
spraying christmas pudding
on you and me


[post ed]
Alfarom had conducted an interview with Josh Lobb (Rume).

A) If you were supposed to do a bespoke fragrance for a musician, who would it be and how the fragrance would smell like?

JL) I'd love to do ..... Dom Perignon perfume for Die Antwoord.


Thank you Alfarom.

This opens with a fermented spicey monster projection. I have tried 10 Slumberhouse frags, and the commonality is that they are all over-poweringly strong. It's like hearing a great tune, but turning up the volume to the max...it is too much. This dried down to a more managable mix.

Rume has definite boozy fruity notes, like mixed fruit including plums, marinating in rum and sherry for a Christmas cake. It's quite sweet but in a dark way, not sugary at all. This takes away the medicinal notes I have found in the other Slumberhouses I've tried. Rume could pass for a gourmand. The Christmas cake nuances are very tempered by the myrrh and labdanum, and the whole concoction is very smoothly blended. Simply lovely.

The opening is surprising but then I get a smoky clove dark berry. Pleasant for women or men. Delicious.

On initial application I get cloves and bay leaves. Just the right amount of sweetness in the scent. Not cloying, and one of the smoother lines in Slumberhouse.

As time moves on the scent projects further afield from the body.
Radiates out more - must be body heat activating the scent ?

Deep Green. Smell of cut pine tree trunk and bark.
Illusions of Christmas cake

Hints of resinous notes whispering here and there ?

Quite striking and individual. Not your run of the mill fragrance. This stuff stands out from the crowd. OK its not for everybody but it is to be applauded in the land of Mr Me Too and Mrs Same Here.


This is comfortably unisex as is all of the Slumberhouse offerings so far.

Love it

4.1 /5

[update]
Would I wear it ? My preference is toward Norne and then Jeke. Both are less sweet. Going to try and layer Rume with Norne. Don't think this would layer well with Jeke. They are too wildly different.

Ok, tried it, and so Rume and Norne don't layer well.

Heavy Heavy Heavy
anybody want to wear root bear or cola
honestly i almost like it if it were less cloying
The burnt sugar thing i like /its just that there is not any lightness
that lets it breath!

An odd mix of myrrh, a slightly nutty scent, and a sweet cola that (to me) smells more like some kind of alcoholic currant beverage. It's probably one of the smoothest from this line as, like the Pear+Olive fragrance from this house, it's quite sweet, but not in a tacky, oppressive kind of way -- nor does it have any of the ashy smoke from the other lines. Although the notes dictate something a little different, the feeling I get from Rume is that I'm sitting in an old, wooden wine barrel that had been used in some bizarre experiment to create a new, rich version of a boozy cola type beverage. It's lovely, but for those who dig the ashy drama of Jeke, Norne, and Baque, this one is much sweeter. Longevity is nuts, of course; I can smell it after a couple of days, but I think that's because the scent itself is so strikingly memorable.

While it's probably more wearable than some of the others, this is certainly not for those prefer the mainstream fragrance counter type of scent, and certainly not for those who like to have the word "sport" tacked onto the end of their fragrances.

If aesthetics, scent-narratives, and experimentation are your thing, take this one for a spin.

Rume striked me as very Lutens-like. A full bodied composition where a strong resinous presence (myrrh and labdanum) is joined by clove and bay. Somewhere between Serge Noir and Fille En Aiguilles. It has an overall burnt-sugary, sort of roasted, vibe. It's spicy and slightly (slightly) medicinal. The myrrh remarks its presence with pungent accents while a honeyed note adds even more density.

Good.

Rating: 7/10