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:
- 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.
- 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.
