Top Notes 
Lemon
Italian bergamot
Heart Notes 
Algae
Iodine
Base Notes 
Cedar
Vetiver
Birch
09/19/2012
Ysbrand
84 Reviews
Ysbrand
Very helpful Review
6
Sunbathing merpeople
Sel Marin has a very fresh and leafy beginning, slightly fruity/aquatic, with Bergamot and its silvery dazzle, and some green leaves (beech?) that wont last more than a few minutes.
The fragance immediately transports us to the seashore. Sel Marin starts as a citrusy cologne with a very defined naturalistic sea personality... I was reluctant to believe, but the sea smell is there. Lemon brightness is kind of dominant over the warm noticeable saltiness. An invigorating morning stroll in the harbour . This salt scent is fishy, seafoody to my nose. But fishes smell to sea... so, please, dont think of the stink of a fishmonger´s, those are rottening corpses... The iodized smell is prettified with a sunny citrus note and lichen green accents, but just to enhance, not to cover the oozing sea urchins, shells and starfishes.
The citrus fades away and SPLASH! the melon fruitiness i noticed at the very beginning returns, with a vigor that the first part of the fragance (warm salt and citrus) didnt have. Is amazing how it comes to live on my skin, and im not in the harbour anymore, because that strangely pale strolling lady with an umbrella turned out to be a mermaid: she took my hand and dragged me under the sea. It is now a classic "marine" note but mixed with Fucus seaweed. So yes, uou have here the maligned calone that everybody seem to hate, but is just a supporter to the genuine seawater scent that gives a notion of "liquid" to the fucus.
As we loose the aquatic note, the fragances dries down into a salty woody scent, with a clean vetiver. The "wetness" is still there, sometimes is seawater, often the bank of a river. Ambergris is not listed, but Sel Marin is savoury-aquaeous-woody at this stage as it had it. A souvenir of the underwater love, left by the tide.
Once the sea spell is lifted, the cedar and vetiver persist.
It is a subtle,comfortable, close to the skin fragance, strange and original but always in the realms of the wearable.
The fragance immediately transports us to the seashore. Sel Marin starts as a citrusy cologne with a very defined naturalistic sea personality... I was reluctant to believe, but the sea smell is there. Lemon brightness is kind of dominant over the warm noticeable saltiness. An invigorating morning stroll in the harbour . This salt scent is fishy, seafoody to my nose. But fishes smell to sea... so, please, dont think of the stink of a fishmonger´s, those are rottening corpses... The iodized smell is prettified with a sunny citrus note and lichen green accents, but just to enhance, not to cover the oozing sea urchins, shells and starfishes.
The citrus fades away and SPLASH! the melon fruitiness i noticed at the very beginning returns, with a vigor that the first part of the fragance (warm salt and citrus) didnt have. Is amazing how it comes to live on my skin, and im not in the harbour anymore, because that strangely pale strolling lady with an umbrella turned out to be a mermaid: she took my hand and dragged me under the sea. It is now a classic "marine" note but mixed with Fucus seaweed. So yes, uou have here the maligned calone that everybody seem to hate, but is just a supporter to the genuine seawater scent that gives a notion of "liquid" to the fucus.
As we loose the aquatic note, the fragances dries down into a salty woody scent, with a clean vetiver. The "wetness" is still there, sometimes is seawater, often the bank of a river. Ambergris is not listed, but Sel Marin is savoury-aquaeous-woody at this stage as it had it. A souvenir of the underwater love, left by the tide.
Once the sea spell is lifted, the cedar and vetiver persist.
It is a subtle,comfortable, close to the skin fragance, strange and original but always in the realms of the wearable.
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