@notoriouscs replied to your post “Arrghhh so I went home with that Sailing Day perfume on, and made G...”
What the hell is "aquatic notes"?
It’s...kind of a weird one to be honest, because it really depends on the perfumer? Sometimes it will be scent adjacent concepts -- florals that are associated with the seaside and the like, or it can be a lot more literal: the smell of salt water, sand, I’ve even seen seashells referred to as a note? And you can go freshwater with petrichor -- quite literally -- trying to evoke that mineral smell of wet rocks.
And then it depends on if the perfumer is only using botanicals, or if they dip into synthetics as well. There’s a chemical compound called Calone, that smells like clean, beachy, sea air with a melony kind of cucumbery aspect. It’s completely synthetic, but it has a similar chemical structure to scent molecules produced by some seaweeds, and associated with a fresh marine scent.
So yeah. Basically it’s scents that are meant to bring the brain into a headspace of water -- either saline or fresh.That’s probably more than you ever wanted to know about perfume weirdness, but welcome to my world of strange af scent obsession!