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Comparison with Acqua di Sale
Seeing these two are so close one might consider Coastal Salty Forest a substitute for Acqua di Sale, I decided to write a comparative review.
Leaving the first few minutes aside, when CSF smells greener and takes a short while to get to the main notes, these two smell enormously similar, the differences are that:
AdS is more camphorous, the myrtle is really hyped up together with an ozonic smell which results in a sharp, very camphorous, almost minty, nose-piercing accord, while CSF smells more toned down, not necessarily more realistic but noticeably less nose-piercing still, even though it still is quite balsamic;
CSF on the other hand is greener, with an ever so slightly smoky thyme note accompanying the main myrtle/ozonic accord, which is itself camphorous but not quite as prickly and piercing as that of AdS.
Performance is not even close, a single spray of AdS has noticeably more sillage than two sprays of CSF, and it lasts days on a tissue compared to some 12-18h of CSF.
All in all AdS is a bit brighter and CSF is a bit greener and a bit more moderate, but they're very very very close scents, and the much lower price of CSF more than makes up for the worse performance.
Acqua di Sale is one of the first fragrances that really wow'd me, and Coastal Salty Forest is such a good impression of it that I bought two bottles.
Leaving the first few minutes aside, when CSF smells greener and takes a short while to get to the main notes, these two smell enormously similar, the differences are that:
AdS is more camphorous, the myrtle is really hyped up together with an ozonic smell which results in a sharp, very camphorous, almost minty, nose-piercing accord, while CSF smells more toned down, not necessarily more realistic but noticeably less nose-piercing still, even though it still is quite balsamic;
CSF on the other hand is greener, with an ever so slightly smoky thyme note accompanying the main myrtle/ozonic accord, which is itself camphorous but not quite as prickly and piercing as that of AdS.
Performance is not even close, a single spray of AdS has noticeably more sillage than two sprays of CSF, and it lasts days on a tissue compared to some 12-18h of CSF.
All in all AdS is a bit brighter and CSF is a bit greener and a bit more moderate, but they're very very very close scents, and the much lower price of CSF more than makes up for the worse performance.
Acqua di Sale is one of the first fragrances that really wow'd me, and Coastal Salty Forest is such a good impression of it that I bought two bottles.