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bodik610 – :
9/10
Every time I use it it reminds me about the sea. It’s super refreshing. Smells like salt , sand and sea breeze. Very natural scent.
qazwsxedc – :
Seasalt, caramel, soap, & tonka!
I keep on sniffing sweet beach sands with seaweed mix! it’s like a contradict mix for a while, till it turns into a sweet soapy blend with hints of seaweed and aquatic bits!
I don’t like the aquatic fragrances but this isn’t aquatic as notes says, it BEGINS salty and aquatic with hints of salted caramel and tonka beans, but later it goes quite balanced with less salt, less sands, and less aquatic notes with more soapy texture. The colder it goes the soapier it gets and less sweet.
Impressive for an aquatic fragrance.
drondon – :
This is not an acquatic-calone perfum of 90’s or first 2000.
Initially I can get fresh notes of lavender and pine
It becomes quite sweet, clean, softened by vanilla and musc.
Sea and salt notes are just a hint, not overpowered.
It’s well blended and crafted, very comfortable and I get a feeling of lovely baby powder
Suitable for all seasons!
shadowka – :
I don’t understand why this gets a lot of hate. It’s really pleasant and it really does remind me of the sea. I would say it’s in the same genre of Heeley Sel Marin but not quite as safe. I actually like this better than Heeley.
Really peeps, you need to check this out.
9/10
ESHArcd – :
This is just as Acqua di Sale or Rem, higher quality but less fizzy. This perfume is more bland, leading to an almost chlorine feel. However the fizzy vs chlorine drydown may vary depending on your skin. On mine it starts very fishy, evolves into Acqua di Sale and changes back to something very fishy if I wash my hands. Provided it works on you, it has a very good price and I find the quality WAYY higher than acqua di sale & co.. it just has that weird component you have to test out.. 😀
Longevity: I can wash my hands one time or two and it’s still there.. sure not very good smelling at that point..
Sillage: moderate.
7/10.
ICEBERG13 – :
Smell like rotten egg! Horrid! And it lasted on me for 2 days, I had to cover it with my strongest fragrances and somehow the rotten egg smell still peak through.
airatgt – :
This made me nauseated before I even sprayed my decant. (A super generous former MUA swap pal sent me this as an extra.)
It might have a little vanilla, but it was mostly salt. The worst part about it, for me, is that there was a strong, underlying odor not unlike ejaculate.
I will edit if I am ever brave enough to spray this on my skin, but the entire drawer this decant lies in has a cloud of *uncomfortable* soaking into its wood panels as we speak. I’m not sure that day will ever come.
PRO: if you like this, I imagine it has stellar staying power and sillage.
ss_baurzhan – :
I feel like I should try this perfume again in the interest of fairness. I tried it last year, after enjoying this line’s Rosamunda and Cozumel and with admittedly no experience with acquatics, and I must admit it made me queasy to the point of nausea and I had to scrub it. Perhaps it wasn’t the scent and that I had a touch of flu and didn’t know it. only one other fragrance has had that effect on me. But the description sounds so enticing.
9065270815 – :
Since beginning in 2010 with four fragrances, Italian perfume house Laboratorio Olfattivo has grown into an impressive niche line that now numbers twelve eaux de parfum with the release of Patchouliful in 2014. Far from marketing executives and focus groups, this company is dedicated to allowing artistic perfumers free reign when it comes to pursuing their inspirations and fulfilling fragrant dreams.
In this exclusive laboratory, perfumers work in an idyllic environment that nurtures both the art and creativity while releasing modern scents that bring classic perfume structure into the 21st century. The elegant fluids in these flaçons belie the plain and simple packaging, yet all of them reflect the modern streamlined luxury of their containers.
Inspired by what many call the “Pearl of the Mediterranean”, Salina is an olfactory remembrance of a small island located in the Aeolian archipelago, north of Sicily. The invigorating temperate marine climate of its namesake isle is captured by a smooth and heavily salted citrus opening, tinged with the scent of lofty pines blown from the hills above by briny breezes. The most intriguing quality of Salina is the way in which perfumer David Mauritte captures the beauty of both the island and the sea, without any watery fruity notes, ultimately achieving the same clarity and aqueous aura with marine materials.
Unfurling like a perfumed poem, this scent tells a salty tale of bitter herbs and hearty blooms dotting the coastline. Present also, underlying the entire perfume, are wafts of beach containing the gentle (yet undeniably odd) desiccated aroma of petrified starfish and brittle sea urchins, deposited by lapping waves of frothy lavender. The sunbaked sand mixed with saline spray is soon washed away by an incoming tide of translucent musk. Sun faded cedarwood drifts and dries, bobbing on the sea’s surface, while bathed in glowing vanilla shimmers.
The 15% concentration of this perfume projects just enough, lasting longer than almost any in the aromatic aquatic genre. Neither pretentious nor ubiquitous, Salina resonates a nautical elegance with an emphasis on both hesperidic and true oceanic accords. The delightful addition of myrtle flower and absinthe (wormwood) fuse everything into a sturdy and head-and-shoulders above “the rest” of the endless ocean of woody maritime fragrances out there.
Sillage: average to good
Longevity: above average
Overall: 4.5/5
The truth be told? I’m an aquatics addict, in recovery currently. I used to love and douse myself with large doses of “calone colognes”. The more the better!! (Sick…I know) After a decade of sniffing around my tastes are now more eclectic (nay, eccentric!) and well-rounded; yet this fragrance had me ready to “relapse” and take the plunge with pleasure…
I’ve been there, sniffed that and lost the proverbial t-shirt; so to speak, never once thinking that I would find such a truly aromatic and rather unique aquatic in such a plain flaçon with such a simple name. Salina not only lasted how I expect a perfume at its pricepoint should (hour after delightful hour), it didn’t smell the least bit trite and could feasibly cross the ever looming and somewhat pesky seasonal line in the sand and compliment the crisper sunny days of autumn as well as days spent basking at the shore.
Notes: Lemon peel, sea salt, pine needles, wormwood, hot sand accord, myrtle, marine spurts, lavender, vanilla, white musk & cedar wood
xmg262elipseskism – :
God I wanted to love this scent. But I didn’t.
Here’s the thing, it absolutely evokes the beach. But the beach in all the wrong ways. It smells like a subway car full of hot sweaty people who have just spent the day at Coney Island. Like beach, but like dirty, fishy beach. It was too real for me.
And worse, still, it had an insane longevity. Seven hours later and I still smelled like I had spent a hot day at the fish market and tried to exfoliate with sea salt afterward. My dress reeked of it.
It’s a fascinating scent and I was continually stunned at how “real” it smelled to me… but I didn’t want to wear it. Maybe, on someone else’s skin, it would be a better beachy scent. I’ll stick with Laboratorio Olfattivo’s “Cozumel.”
борик818181 – :
Aqua Di Sale 2.0. As invasive and bad as only this genre can get.
Sorry!
Rating: 4/10
909090 – :
This is my first wear of my sample and it is definitely reminiscent of the salty but slightly sweet smell of skin after a day at the beach. I haven’t smelt anything like it – it’s quite beautiful. It also has a density to it although it’s not a heavy scent at all. I think this brand is really overlooked – so far I’ve loved everything I’ve tried from them.
MixPost23 – :
This scent is the essence of the mediterranean sea breeze bottled in a sincere and simple package, it is fresh and salty as the name says. It’s a sensation, an emotion, it’s not strong, high or incisive, actually it is so soft and evanescent that only who has been in Mediterannean Sea, specifically in Italy, can recognize in this juice the shadow of a memory.
Beautiful as piece of olfactive art, but I’m not sure if considering this as a everyday scent.