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Flint
Flint in perfume usually smells dry, mineral and smoky, with metallic, stony and slightly earthy sides. It does not come from extracting scent from pieces of flint. It...
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Aquatic & Mineral Fragrance Notes
Aquatic and mineral fragrance notes often smell fresh, airy, watery, salty or cool. Some can also have green, slightly metallic, stony or sea-like qualities. They are grouped here because they create related fresh and mineral effects, but the category itself is different from an Aquatic accord or a fragrance family such as Fresh & Bright.
The Aquatic & Mineral category brings together fragrance notes that suggest water, sea air, salt, cool stone or other crisp mineral effects. In Luxaro's fragrance note encyclopaedia, this includes flint, icy accord, marine notes, sea salt and seaweed. Several of these are scent impressions created by perfumers rather than literal extracts of seawater, salt or stone.
Aquatic & Mineral Notes in Perfume
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Icy Accord
An icy accord in perfume usually smells cool, clean and watery, with ozonic, airy, minty and sometimes metallic sides. It is an abstract effect rather than an extract...
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Marine Notes
Marine notes in perfume usually smell fresh, watery and airy, with salty, ozonic, mineral and sea-breeze sides. They are constructed accords rather than liquid extracted directly from seawater....
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Sea Salt
Sea salt in perfume usually smells mineral, airy and marine, with clean, salty, watery and sun-warmed skin sides. Salt crystals themselves do not provide the full smell associated...
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Seaweed
Seaweed in perfume usually smells salty, green and marine, with iodine-like, mineral, earthy and slightly animalic sides. It is darker and more organic than a clean watery marine...
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