Top Notes 
Salt
Ginger
Heart Notes 
Laminaria
Vetiver
Base Notes 
Cedarwood
Oakmoss
12/19/2024
Sethro77
2 Reviews
Sethro77
Helpful Review
7
A Nostalgic Awakening
This is going to be a VERY emotional, and passionate review for me. I LOVE fragrances. I have a collection of 330 bottles, and it has become increasingly harder to impress me with new releases.
With that being said....
What Quentin Bisch did with this fragrance brought me to LITERAL tears.... The nostalgia, and beauty of this scent spoke to my SOUL...
I grew up on the east coast in the USA. Every year, my family would go to Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina for vacation. 18 years of visiting this island for summer vacation, and it NEVER got old for me.
As a teenager, when I came to understand and know my sexuality, I realized my attraction toward men was part of my design as human, and as a spiritual being on this planet. And this is IMPORTANT for this review.
You see.... During the years, my awakening to my sexuality, and my desire for LIFE, was steadily occuring... But each year, when we went to the beach, and the smell of the ocean surrounding me... Being on the beach in my bathing suit, with my body exposed to the elements.... And seeing other men in their bathing suits entering, and leaving the waters of the ocean, with the sun and water glistening on their torsos.... my excitement for life, my sexuality, my awakening to myself, would just EXPLODE within me. That mixture of the scent of the ocean, and the scent of men being in the sun all day, covered in salty water, with the seaweed, and slightly spicy nuances of various sun lotions..... It was like my soul went into hyperdrive, in its excitement for life, and the exploration of it.... The ocean just made me feel the MOST ALIVE.
Now, back to the scent-
When I first tested this scent, I was in a perfume outlet, and I sprayed this directly on my skin, without first testing on a strip... I let it set for a minute and walked around before smelling, and I was already getting whiffs of something that made my energy start to peek.... I lifted my hand to my nose, and I kid you not.... I started crying in the store... Almost INSTANTLY, I was a teenager sitting on the beach, excited about life, and all of its possibility....
The scent to me is the personification of a man who is FREE, ALIVE, IN the natural elements of this world, kissed by the ocean and sun.... It is this SALTY, SENSUAL, SPICY, and yet CLEAN aroma.... As a teenager, when my hormones were RAGING, this was the scent that I imagined I would experience the FIRST TIME I was allowed to have intimate contact with a man.
In my mind it would be in the summer, on the beach, as the sun begins to set. The heat and scent of my partner's body, from being in the ocean and sun all day, begins to fill the air around him. He is dressed in a white unbuttoned, linen shirt (freshly washed, and dried in the ocean air), his chest, and torso exposed, still in his bathing suit, sunglasses on, wind in his hair, the lingering scent of a gingery, sweet sunscreen still on his skin..... The smell of the ocean water still in his hair.....
This scent is just the MOST nostalgic, and sensual fragrance I have ever smelled.... I am OBSESSED... I bought 3 bottles immediately in fear of it ever going out of stock...
My only wish now, is that I can get through smelling it without being brought to tears.
So... Who should wear this?
Any one out there who identifies masculinely, who wants the world to experience them as wild, untamed, free, and so excited about life itself that they exude the natural origins of life itself (the ocean).... You want to smell clean, but also have that edge of natural, masculine, salty musk about you.... This smell is for you.... The ginger lifts this scent to a vibrant etheric aura, while the seaweed and salt ground it in the origins of life on this earth (the ocean), woods and vetiver deepen the masculinity of this scent as if to say, I am strong, I am sturdy, I am.... If this describes you... BUY THIS, you will not be dissapointed.
I think I just had another awakening at the age of 40, thanks to this fragrance.... WOW, and THANK YOU Quentin Bisch... THANK YOU!
With that being said....
What Quentin Bisch did with this fragrance brought me to LITERAL tears.... The nostalgia, and beauty of this scent spoke to my SOUL...
I grew up on the east coast in the USA. Every year, my family would go to Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina for vacation. 18 years of visiting this island for summer vacation, and it NEVER got old for me.
As a teenager, when I came to understand and know my sexuality, I realized my attraction toward men was part of my design as human, and as a spiritual being on this planet. And this is IMPORTANT for this review.
You see.... During the years, my awakening to my sexuality, and my desire for LIFE, was steadily occuring... But each year, when we went to the beach, and the smell of the ocean surrounding me... Being on the beach in my bathing suit, with my body exposed to the elements.... And seeing other men in their bathing suits entering, and leaving the waters of the ocean, with the sun and water glistening on their torsos.... my excitement for life, my sexuality, my awakening to myself, would just EXPLODE within me. That mixture of the scent of the ocean, and the scent of men being in the sun all day, covered in salty water, with the seaweed, and slightly spicy nuances of various sun lotions..... It was like my soul went into hyperdrive, in its excitement for life, and the exploration of it.... The ocean just made me feel the MOST ALIVE.
Now, back to the scent-
When I first tested this scent, I was in a perfume outlet, and I sprayed this directly on my skin, without first testing on a strip... I let it set for a minute and walked around before smelling, and I was already getting whiffs of something that made my energy start to peek.... I lifted my hand to my nose, and I kid you not.... I started crying in the store... Almost INSTANTLY, I was a teenager sitting on the beach, excited about life, and all of its possibility....
The scent to me is the personification of a man who is FREE, ALIVE, IN the natural elements of this world, kissed by the ocean and sun.... It is this SALTY, SENSUAL, SPICY, and yet CLEAN aroma.... As a teenager, when my hormones were RAGING, this was the scent that I imagined I would experience the FIRST TIME I was allowed to have intimate contact with a man.
In my mind it would be in the summer, on the beach, as the sun begins to set. The heat and scent of my partner's body, from being in the ocean and sun all day, begins to fill the air around him. He is dressed in a white unbuttoned, linen shirt (freshly washed, and dried in the ocean air), his chest, and torso exposed, still in his bathing suit, sunglasses on, wind in his hair, the lingering scent of a gingery, sweet sunscreen still on his skin..... The smell of the ocean water still in his hair.....
This scent is just the MOST nostalgic, and sensual fragrance I have ever smelled.... I am OBSESSED... I bought 3 bottles immediately in fear of it ever going out of stock...
My only wish now, is that I can get through smelling it without being brought to tears.
So... Who should wear this?
Any one out there who identifies masculinely, who wants the world to experience them as wild, untamed, free, and so excited about life itself that they exude the natural origins of life itself (the ocean).... You want to smell clean, but also have that edge of natural, masculine, salty musk about you.... This smell is for you.... The ginger lifts this scent to a vibrant etheric aura, while the seaweed and salt ground it in the origins of life on this earth (the ocean), woods and vetiver deepen the masculinity of this scent as if to say, I am strong, I am sturdy, I am.... If this describes you... BUY THIS, you will not be dissapointed.
I think I just had another awakening at the age of 40, thanks to this fragrance.... WOW, and THANK YOU Quentin Bisch... THANK YOU!
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