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.
- BPAL Lightning Perfume Oil - Lightning slashing the midnight skies over the endless reaches of the ocean. The electric tang of ozone, marine notes and a drop of sharp rain.
- Calypso’s Cottage Tempest Perfume Oil – Tempest captures the soul of a storm—the moment just before rain breaks, when the air is heavy with electricity and the air hums with electricity. This fragrance is a study in contrast: the wildness of crashing waves and wind-tossed ivy balanced against the golden sweetness of linden blossoms. It opens with a gust of ozone, a sharp, clean breath that evokes the first crackle of thunder in the distance. Cooling rain clouds drift in, bringing a soft mineral chill, as if mist were rising from the ocean’s edge. At the heart, you walk along a rocky shoreline cloaked in ivy, where green vines cling to damp stone and salt lingers on the breeze. As the storm softens, it gives way to the delicate warmth of linden blossoms, sweet and light as sunlight breaking through darkened skies. With notes of ozone, cooling rain clouds, ivy covered rocky shoreline and linden blossoms.
- Dawn Spencer Hurwitz (DSH) Perfumes Awake the Kraken Voile de Parfum - A dark and stormy sea. Awake the Kraken is perhaps the most animalic and emotional ‘marine’ scent by DSH. Heavy doses of seashell aromatics, ambergris, and oud have been optimized to create a stormy sea, vivid with sea monsters and tempest rains. With notes of ambergris, Choya Nakh, driftwood accord, oakmoss, labdanum, musk, oud, salt accord, seaweed and wet stone accord.
- 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.
- Fyrinnae Starboard Bow Perfume Oil - Weathered wood drying under the emerging sun, after being battered for days by cold saltwater and high winds. Bitter orange and a bit of lime peel, Himalayan cedarwood, the barest touch of musk, with hints of thyme and labdanum. Himalayan cedarwood is to represent the Lebanese cedars (a similar species), a favored timber for shipbuilding in ancient Egypt and other nearby regions with few tall useable trees.
- Paranormal Perfumes Poseidon Perfume Oil - Inspired by the God of the Sea, Poseidon. The perfect combination for unleashing an ocean storm on your enemies, hailing lighting and earthquakes upon the Earth and ruling over the majestic ocean. It is a dark, deep and mysterious fragrance with notes of stormy ocean water, sea salt, lightning, plum and dark musk.
- Thorn & Moon Shipwreck Perfume Oil - A stormy perfume with a bolt of lightning, darkened clouds of roaring waves of sea salt with a tinge of seaweed.
