Scent guide
Perfumes that smell like the sea and summer skin
Most "ocean" perfumes smell like laundry. These don't. They go after real salt, seaweed on rocks and the warm, slightly sweet smell of skin that has been in the sun all day. The list runs from the most mineral and wild to the most golden and holiday-like.
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Sel Marin
Sea salt, lemon and driftwood. Wet hair drying in the wind on a pebble beach, with nothing sweet in the way.
Notes: sea salt, lemon, seaweed, driftwood, moss, musk -
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Megamare
Seaweed, sea spray and ambergris at full volume. The rocks at low tide, raw and powerful; a little goes a long way.
Notes: sea spray, seaweed, ambergris, musk, salt, marine notes -
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Millésime Impérial
Sea salt with melon and iris. A smoother, sunnier sea, the one you see from a terrace with a cold drink.
Notes: sea salt, melon, iris, musk, bergamot, marine notes, lemon -
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Soleil Blanc
Coconut, ylang-ylang and amber. Skin after a long day at the beach, warm and golden.
Notes: bergamot, cardamom, jasmine, ylang-ylang, coconut, amber -
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Rose Atlantic
Rose blown about by sea air. For the garden above the cove rather than the water itself.
Notes: rose, salt water, bergamot, lemon, linden, dune grass, musk
Start with Sel Marin for the water itself; Soleil Blanc for the skin afterwards.
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