Holy Water

Note Profile

Abstract

About

Cold stone and still water inside a church. A mineral, faintly ozonic impression with incense smoke soaked into the walls and beeswax from votive candles. It reads as a place rather than a liquid.

Scent Profile

Mineral leads and it is the one thing all three sources agree on. Premiere Peau writes that 'the stone quality dominates: wet, cold, ancient', Demeter names 'an old stone container', and Wicked Good lists a 'Marble Accord' outright. It sits below the published marble note's 0.86 because water is in the frame here and marble is dry. Aquatic_ozonic is second: Demeter's 'ozone scented water' and Wicked Good's 'Fresh Air, Ozone' are both dominant claims from the two sources that actually sell a product under this name. Amber_resinous carries the frankincense and myrrh Premiere Peau lists, held well under the frankincense note's 0.78 because only one of three sources mentions resin at all. Smoky is the same evidence read as 'distant smoke, echoing stone', and is deliberately below incense's for the same reason. Clean_musk is the cold, laundered air the accord shares across readings, plus the musk drydown on the Wicked Good product. Below the naming line: honeyed for the votive beeswax, dry_woody for Demeter's oak pew and Wicked Good's patchouli, white_floral for the tuberose and ylang heart that only Wicked Good builds, aldehydic and powdery for the lift and dust of cold air over stone, cooling_mentholic for the cold itself. Nothing sweet, fruity or edible appears in any source, so those facets are zero.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

Family Elemental, Fresh & Citrus

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

A fantasy accord. No material is distilled from holy water. Perfumers build it from mineral and stone effects, ozonic aquatic materials, frankincense and myrrh traces, and beeswax. Demeter Fragrance Library released the first single-note fragrance under this name in 2009, built on 'ozone scented water' and 'oak scented pew'. Premiere Peau's glossary describes a stone-and-incense accord instead. Wicked Good Perfume sells a third reading, ozone over tuberose and ylang ylang with patchouli beneath.

Usage in Perfumery

Used to place a fragrance inside a church or a crypt. It sits under incense and resin notes and gives them a cold, wet, architectural floor. Attested on 3 Fragrantica perfumes.