Salty Skin

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Salty skin is a warm skin-musk with sea salt over it. The musk is the body of the note. The salt sits on top as a savoury, faintly bitter mineral tang with a marine coolness behind it. It reads as skin after a day at the sea, not as sea water.

Scent Profile

Salty Skin smells of warm skin musk first, the body the whole note is built on. A savoury, mineral saltiness sits on top of it, close to fresh sea air. A faint ambergris warmth runs underneath. A slightly bitter, sour tang of sea salt shows through, reading as skin after a day at the sea rather than the sea itself. Underneath sits a soft amber warmth, with a faint resinous, balsamic depth.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Amber · Musk · Leather, Elemental, Fresh & Citrus

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Origin

Salty skin is an accord, not a material. No manufacturer publishes an olfactive sheet for it. Every sourced description is a finished perfume: Le Persona's Salty Skin names Musk as its main note over bergamot, caviar, juniper berry, neroli, jasmine sambac, orchid, ambrox super and oakmoss, and Ellis Brooklyn's Salt uses the same 'salty skin' language and leads with a vegan ambergris.

Usage in Perfumery

Salty skin is used as a base to make a fragrance read as intimate and worn rather than sprayed. Parfumo attests it in 3 perfumes across 2 brands. Perfumers reach for it in seaside and sun-warmed-body themes.