Stormy seas smell intensely of salt, ozone and decaying organic matter. The churning water releases high concentrations of phytoplankton and strong winds and rain release earthy, musty compounds like geosmin, while lightning creates a pungent ozone scent. Perfumes evoking stormy seas typically combine dark aquatic, mineral and atmospheric notes to create a moody, cold or tumultuous olfactory experience, often featuring ozone, seaweed, salt and petrichor. These fragrances move away from light citrus aquatics toward darker, more visceral scents that capture the intense, raw energy of a tempestuous ocean.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler:
- Aether Arts Perfume Charybdis Voile de Parfum - The fierce spirit of Charybdis shows herself in the scent, sight and sound of a storm-tossed sea, where gray skies, white-capped waves, and salt-spray sting your face as the wind whips your hair. In this perfume there are no idyllic isles filled with sun and ambrosial fruits; this is a true ocean scent. Charybdis is the smell of salt and seaweed; driftwood and the flinty gray-green color of the waves; a quiet—perhaps even melancholy—scent, a longing and remembering of time alone by the sea. With a top note of sea spray accord; a middle note of stormy sea accord; and base notes of driftwood and seaweed accord.
- Andromeda’s Curse The Tower Perfume Oil - A crumbing tower at the edge of a torrential sea being pummeled relentlessly by a thunderstorm. With notes of ozone, salty ocean waves, rain, muddy dirt, sandalwood and cedarwood.
- ASC Alchemical Drowned Muse Perfume Oil - The essence of an undertow, a tidal wave, a consuming tempest, an overwhelming motion of inspiration that pulls one far from dry land and home. A blend of different seaweed absolutes, roasted seashell essence (onycha or choya nakh), petrichor (the essence of rain on dry earth), infused with driftwood, and bottled with beach sand and sea salt. Makes a great musky, briny, marine perfume.
- Freyja’s Daughters The Tempest Perfume Oil - In Shakespeare's The Tempest, Prospero creates a storm (with magic) to shipwreck his brothers passing ship. This stormy sea story is the inspiration for The Tempest Perfume oil. It's a strong marine scent. With notes of stormy seas, ocean air and sea salt it is easy to imagine yourself as Miranda on the shore.
- Fyrinnae Black Squall Perfume Oil - Open waters of the deepest blue, eerily calm before the looming arcus cloud in the distance bears down, revealing the wrath of the storm behind it. There was little left to do not but watch and wait. Cold and clean smelling seawater, ozonic air, now and then a little olive oil from the lamps.
