Accordo Marino Farmacia SS. Annunziata 2021

Accordo Marino opens fresh, bright, and salty, like a clean breeze over warm skin. Maritime notes meet bergamot and lemon. The start feels clear, lively, and well-groomed.
After a few minutes, the fragrance becomes greener and spicier. Eucalyptus brings a cool freshness, while coriander gives it character. Ylang Ylang adds a soft, floral warmth underneath, without becoming sweet.
It is precisely this green eucalyptus note that gives Accordo Marino an almost medicinal quality. Not in a sterile sense, but rather like fresh herbs, clear air, and a clean bandage after a day at the sea. The fragrance thus feels unusually clean, cool, and slightly bitter. This very tone makes it more exciting than many classic aquatics.

In the base, Accordo Marino shows more depth. It feels more mature, greener, and finer. A fragrance for bright days, white shirts, summer breezes, and moments when one wants to appear clean, fresh, and stylish.

The longevity is solid, and the sillage is rather reserved. It does not impose itself. It rather accompanies.
Accordo Marino is maritime freshness with style. Salty, green, spicy, and pleasantly elegant. A subtle fragrance with a lot of character, like from a historic apothecary.

... at Bocca D'Arno and watch the setting sun sink into the sea. A salty breeze from the sea blows into my face, which is refreshing on this warm evening. Something green and woody wafts in from the hinterland. My better half leans against me and we toast with our wine glasses to a successful day and an even more beautiful evening. As the sun sets, we go to a restaurant on the terrace where we look out at the calm sea with gently lapping waves.

When applying this fragrance, the nose first encounters a medicinal note from the eucalyptus, which quickly fades away and is replaced by marine, salty, fresh citrus accords. Green, spicy, and floral notes join in. The perfume becomes creamy and takes on woody accents. The whole composition is rounded off by the vetiver, which gives it a dry finish.

The longevity and sillage are remarkably good.

Here we have a unisex fragrance for women and men that will always make a good impression at university, in the office, while dining or shopping, as well as on a date or dinner. I don’t see it for the bar, club, party, or disco, as it cannot compete with the loudly screaming fragrances and doesn’t want to, since it aims to be more of a refined, almost noble scent. In fact, it can be worn year-round due to its light creamy note. Yes, it truly shines on warm or hot days and nights.

For the ladies and gentlemen who enjoy wearing something marine, citrusy, and fresh with subtle salty accords, this is just right. The Florentine have created a wonderful fragrance here.

This is how this perfume is described, and we have a scent here that neither wants to be loud nor stand out, and on some days, that is exactly what I need. At the beginning, coriander and eucalyptus are clearly in the foreground, wrapped in the so-called marine notes, whatever that may be, because for me, salt does not inherently have a scent. When it comes fresh from the sea, it is a combination of many components of seawater, like algae, sea creatures, etc.

I would be very interested in the thoughts of the perfumer who created such a scent. A perfume that is far removed from desires like entering the Hall of Fame.

He is probably sitting in an Italian Art Nouveau villa in his study, "I open my window and look at the sea, a strip of sunlight from above gazes upon the garden through the rain clouds and fills the air with a dream of you, of days when we sat there, vanished, it has been a long time."

Fresh, surprisingly sandy right from the start, this dry-creamy quality that is present in many sand scents, along with really large salt flakes, appearing quite natural and authentic, the citrus notes of bergamot and lemon rather as delicate oil splashes on the beach, individual drops, no whole fruits or even just zest from a whole fruit present.

Unfortunately, it then becomes a bit wishy-washy. The heart and base blend into a mixture. Initially, after 20 minutes and more, you can still notice the slightly green freshness of eucalyptus and a creamy-bright floral quality that connects well with the sandy note from the top notes, in the form of ylang. However, afterwards it flows directly into sandalwood and delicate patchouli, along with what feels like a bit of musk, and everything gets lost in this sandalwood-ylang-salt-musk mélange.

It's not bad, it could appeal to some fans of such light-fresh beach scents, but it seems very simple and monotonous to me. The character is simply missing.

[tested on skin]