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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
