Description
Sea Foam is the scent of freedom. Remember as a child when you spilled excitedly over the dune and caught your first glimpse of the sea for that year? Remember how the smell of the sea seemed to expand like pure joy in your lungs? Well, this scent brings back all those familiar feelings of happiness and pure liberation when we see and smell the sea.
As a luxurious, concentrated extrait (pure perfume), Sea Foam is rich in natural oils, essences,
and absolutes that call to mind the various facets of the seaside: the salt, the sweetness, the fresh air, seaweed, the green smell of the sea grasses up on the dunes…
But first, the fragrance opens with a volley of refreshing and crisp citrus notes – bergamot, which
smells both of lemon and green leaves all together in one gorgeous package, and the peppery, herbal citrus tones of bay leaf. As the sharp brightness of the citrus and herbs bank down, it reveals a beautiful seaweed note, moist with clean sea water and rich in minerals and salts. It smells like your shoulder tastes after a dip in the sea – salty, warm, and clean.
Lie back into the warm sand, and close your eyes. Now vetiver drifts into the composition, bringing to mind the grassy, green smell of the salty reeds that grow out of sand dunes. Driftwood notes bring a touch of smoke and bleached dry woods. Your eyes still closed, you can hear the happy sounds of small children playing nearby – notes of milky, lactonic fig and sandalwood make you think – lazily – of the Nivea cream that their mother is rubbing gently into their skin.
All the familiar and much-loved scents of the sea captured for you in a bottle – Sea Foam is a time capsule that transports you to that beach of your childhood memories, an experience to be savored wherever you are or whatever the weather. Pure summer sunshine in a bottle.
Sea Foam by Art de Parfum is a Aromatic Aquatic fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Sea Foam was launched in 2016. Top notes are bergamot, sea notes, laurels, lemon, incense and eucalyptus; middle notes are guaiac wood, seaweed and fig leaf; base notes are driftwood, patchouli, haitian vetiver, sea salt and sandalwood.
navse200 – :
Just wow and I normally don’t do aquatics, but this fragrance would be perfect on a 95 degree day. Summer here I come.
Rosina46 – :
This seascape brought a déjà vu of an old photo I’d seen before… so I dug deep through the scrapbook of time and found 2 hits in the memory banks. Shay & Blue’s “Dandelion Fig”, and Dame Perfumery Scottsdale’s “Herb Man”. All 3 are stunning compositions.
In a side-by-side comparison, the openings differ slightly, but the heart and dry down are spot-on. It’s like the Olsen twins. There’s supposed to be some way of telling them apart, but for the casual observer — a mirror image.
Herb Man is by far the most performant (and economical). That said, would you LOOK at this Art de Parfum bottle. Just *holding* this Seafoam green juice, in the beach-glass pebble orb makes me happy. It really shouldn’t be about the packaging. ‘Looks shouldn’t matter, and it’s what’s on the inside that counts.’ And we ‘shouldn’t glamorize rampant consumerism.’
But in Madonna’s eternal words, “We’re living in a material world, and I am a material girl.” The name, the color, the container, the imagery it conjures — this is my pelagic escape. ~Takes a selfie~
PS: Also detecting a faint labdanum or suede (mild animalic) in the base. It’s very nice!
Zekimilmgeami – :
Sea Foam is certainly the kind of perfume I do not like, a scent of aquatic inspiration. There is a certain artificial aspect to this type of composition that rarely benefits from a larger formula budget and this is one of the few cases where the composition balance works and is interesting. I get to feel the aquatic notes that give a slightly ozone and fresh content the composition, but they are moderate to the point of not giving a generic aura the composition. The use of citrus and seaweed can capture an aerial and delicate texture that is very interesting, something that at the same time brings me to a lemon meringue without the sweetness of it or a sea breeze on a summer day. Sea Foam also does not fall into the error of aquatic compositions and does not end up saturated in clean musks. Instead, there is a complex and delicate woody accord that mixes the creamy scent of sandalwood with lactonic fig tones and a drier woody aroma and a subtly smoky, something that to me is due to the mixture of patchouli, gaiac and vetiver. Like Gin And Tonic, Sea Foam demands greater generosity in its use.
kolushok1 – :
This is a very beautiful aquatic. I am reminded of gentle breezes on a beach in mid-May. It is not yet sweltering hot, and yet the sun is warming the sand and any exposed skin. The scent of the salt water drying on seashells along with sand drying as the tide goes out is a mix of both salty and somewhat pungent. Animal and plant life in the form of jellyfish, horseshoe crabs, seaweed, and fish in various stages of decay have been left behind by the retreating tide. They don’t overwhelm the nose, but they exist, and intertwine with the other scents and define this space as a beach with a vast ocean breaking against its shores. Bergamot is the perfect framework for the opening, and it continued to waft in and out for me throughout the evening.
There is a glorious note of driftwood. I know this scent so well from growing up in North Carolina and collecting the bleached out wood from the beaches. Wood in all forms is a note I appreciate, but I really enjoy when a perfumer employs the scent of driftwood.
I adore sandalwood, and being that I own many scents with both real Mysore as well as other sandalwoods, PLUS some vintage pure Mysore Sandalwood, I can pick it out fairly well. I did not find it during this first wearing. It is possible that either my two-month cold has effected my sense of smell, it’s too cold, or a combination of the two.
I am going to update when the weather gets warmer, and see if and how this lovely aquatic changes with some heat.
Merbt418elipseskism – :
This is very nice, something I would normally love with a passion with the aquatic, seasalt, citrus and fig notes. I guess the only thing missing is the intensity; it’s gone in a moment, and even the scent that is there, although divine, just far too low key.
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rwx971speagoessenda – :
I’ve been looking for a good aquatic for a long time, but somehow I’ve never managed to find one I love. I wasn’t hopeful about this one, because my only other experience with this brand was Excentrique Moi, which was a horrible disappointment.
On first spray, I got a blast of harsh citrus and pepper that had me thinking: here we go again… thankfully that settled quickly, allowing the sea notes, vetiver and seaweed to peek through. ‘Kind of nice’, I thought, ‘but this isn’t going to be a keeper.’
But an hour in, and I can’t stop sniffing my wrist. I’m getting the tiniest hint of salt, woods bleached by the sun, and a gorgeous waft of gentle fig and seaweed. It wears close to the skin and has far less longevity than stablemate Excentrique Moi – oh, that it were the other way around! But it’s divine, both calming and sensual, and I might just have found my aquatic at last.
BUKI20 – :
Makes me think of that Seinfeld episode where Kramer made that ocean-scented fragrance and Calvin Klein stole his idea haha