One of the things I love about 
Existence is that it has, what I call, a "wateryness". It's the same note/accord I love about 
Baie Rose 26 but they don't share any notes and are totally different scents. What is the "watery" note or accord I am picking up in each? Are there others?
I haven't smelled either fragrance but, there are similar notes. Both contain rose, aldehydes, and musk. Also, the Le Labo contains ambrox and the Amougae has ambergris. This is what you may be picking up. Use the compare tool on the two fragrances and see what it tells you.
I haven't smelled either fragrance but, there are similar notes. Both contain rose, aldehydes, and musk. Also, the Le Labo contains ambrox and the Amougae has ambergris. This is what you may be picking up. Use the compare tool on the two fragrances and see what it tells you.
Oh I totally forgot about that tool. Great suggestion, thanks!
I'm not familiar with these fragrances either, but I would guess the same that maybe the rose note is "softened" with aldehydes and/or calone which would make it like clean dewy freshly opened rose bud smell. Perfumes often contain "notes" or chemicals/ingredients that aren't listed in the official pyramid. If it's a salty aquatic smell, then I would guess it's the ambergris/ambroxan.
I'm not familiar with these fragrances either, but I would guess the same that maybe the rose note is "softened" with aldehydes and/or calone which would make it like clean dewy freshly opened rose bud smell. Perfumes often contain "notes" or chemicals/ingredients that aren't listed in the official pyramid. If it's a salty aquatic smell, then I would guess it's the ambergris/ambroxan.
Definetly this. Not all the ingredients are shown on the notes, notes are a marketing thing and wildly influence the taste of consumers, so brands tend to manipulate the opinion on a perfume adding or hiding some notes or materials. Up to a point it is even funny to see the reaction of the customers, for example when a brand decides to declare Ambroxan on the notes you will have on sites a lot of "this is really synthetic to me, it smells chemical" ecc... then you have some fragrances, like for example 
Portrait of a Lady Eau de Parfum, which are litterally ambroxan bomb (in this case something like 30% of the oil is ambroxan) but do not mention it on the notes and the customers react like "sooooo natural, photorealistic pretty rose, masterpiece" ecc...
And don't get me wrong, Portrait of a Lady Eau de Parfum is a really good fragrance, nice formula, a classic, but it is an ambroxan chem bomb, and there is no problem with it.
So, be aware that notes do not tell the whole story.
I usually dislike the gimmick of single molecule perfumes ( 
Molecule 01/ 
Not a Perfume Eau de Parfum / 
L'Éclat ) BUT they can serve to teach you what those aromachemicals smell like. 
Ambroxan Molecule taught me i like ambroxan quite a bit XD
