Description
A marine poem composed wave after wave…
Entre ciel et mer (“Between sky and sea”) tells a story of etesian winds, azure skies and flying over seascapes at top speed…
Icy, soaring and powerful, the first whiff feels as though it had been sculpted out of the Meltem – the north wind that blows over the Aegean Sea, with notes of crumpled, water-splashed leaves and the fruity-aromatic nuances of a lavender, pear and white thyme accord.
The scent’s naturalistic seawater effect is achieved through a molecular distillation of algae from the Pacific, with iodic and animalic notes of white lichen and ambergris.
The dry, almost mineral facets are balanced out with cedar moss and sandalwood from New Caledonia.
A strikingly novel interpretation of marine fragrances. Entre Ciel et Mer was launched in 2015. The nose behind this fragrance is Pierre Guillaume.
disso74 – :
I was at first very surprised to smell pear and lavender, which quickly gave way to what I thought was kelp. The slightly rotting smell of seaweed, baking in the sun. I can only assume this to be the algae, but as it dries I’m also reminded of freshly cut grass. Everything is suitably caked in sea salt. I enjoy this or what it is, a watercolour sketch of a place and time. I don’t find it very wearable socially.
Biordtimi – :
A soft whisper of cool air, warm woods, and ancient, algae filled salt water. An intimate, modern, and slightly dirty aquatic that’s subtle and great for wear during the summer. The salt and woods begin to fade as the scent dries down with the scent becoming floral.
vasiliev – :
Incredible perfume. This is about soothing non-salty acquatic notes of soft water.. and air ones. I get a lot of lily despite not being listed then a very very slight green and earthy base: cedarmoss. It really captures the non-salty air over a beach! Acquatic notes have nothing to do with: Acqua di sale, fiore dell’onda, salina, acqua motu, rem etc.. .
Longevity: 2/3 hours at best..
Sillage: moderate to soft
9/10 it recalls me something.. I’m not sure what..
ceanopierrarP – :
Need to update my initial review, previously I had smelled a very odd, sour b.o.-type odor 30 mins after application of a small sample. I have since tried it again and it smells much cleaner, super watery, salty, and even beachy…weird. I actually don’t mind it now. Still relegated only to summer, I wouldn’t dream of wearing this in the winter. This would make a nice summer beach day scent to wear; it is salty to me and very “warm”. It’s a definite unisex scent. Unlike lots of “beach” perfumes, this one doesn’t smell like suntan lotion or coconut. It is a tad cloying after a while, though, so this might give the sensitive types a headache. Both longevity and sillage were STRONG.
Antohaha29 – :
I sort of think I need to step in and defend this one a little bit. While this is not the heights of the perfume industry, I would not go as far and say it is nasty.
Entre Ciel et Mer is a very airy scent. It smells like sea water- slightly salty, with a bit of herbs and woods in the background. It is a very simple scent, that I think is more about the ambience than creating an impression. I remember ages ago we were discussing on this very forum the most natural scents- and this one would be right there on the top of the list. In his interview Guillaume explained what he wanted to achieve- a scent of a place, and if you look at it from this perspective, I think the scent of pretty successful.
I am wearing it now the heatwave approaches and it is never too much, you can’t really over-apply and it brings a little bit of seaside to the centre of a big metropoly.
vitek63 – :
Cheap and nasty grass scent crossed with a slight white musk and the brine of the others in the line. There’s so little to be said about this scent (and the whole line, really). Smells like a drug store product to me which, if it weren’t for the price tag, might hold some breezy charm. Atrocious.