Blue Sky Accord
Note Profile
About
A marketing-coined accord, not a raw material. Clinique names it as the opening of My Happy Blue Sky Neroli (2018) and describes it as the smell of a street after rain. It is an ozonic, wet-mineral construction rather than a marine or citrus-fresh one.
Scent Profile
Aquatic_ozonic leads and it is the whole idea of the accord. The only description we have is Clinique's own: it evokes 'bustling streets after crisp rainfall, your shoes splashing playfully through clear puddles'. Mineral is the wet pavement in that scene, the stone and grit under the water rather than the water itself. Clean_musk is the sheer, laundered air the copy calls 'light-hearted'. Aldehydic is the bright lift that the words 'blue sky' and 'optimism in a bottle' claim, and it is what separates this from a closed, humid rain note. Green and earthy sit below as the faint petrichor edge of rain hitting ground. No source names a citrus or floral part of this accord. The mandarin, neroli and cardamom in that fragrance follow the accord and are not in it.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
No natural origin. No supplier sells a material called blue sky. Each house that uses the name assembles its own accord from ozonic and mineral synthetics.
Usage in Perfumery
Three Parfumo entries across two brands. Basenotes tags it on three fragrances, including Bath and Body Works' Orchard Leaves and Blue Sky (2016). Always a top-note opener that sets a fresh, airy frame before citrus or floral notes arrive.
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