Viva Maria
EDP · 2025
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Sea Shells
Note Profile
About
A dry, chalky marine mineral note. It is the smell of a sun-bleached shell rather than of open water, and it finishes salty-powdery with a faint musky warmth.
Scent Profile
Sea Shells smells dry and chalky, the mineral scent of a sun-bleached shell rather than open water. A faint marine brininess sits behind it, drier and less wet than a classic aquatic note. The finish turns salty and powdery, like fine chalk dust, with a soft, faint musk warming it from underneath.
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Origin
Not a single traceable raw material. Sea shells is a descriptive perfumery note, built as an accord from mineral, salt and light musk materials. No manufacturer publishes a captive under this name, and no encyclopaedic source treats it as a material.
Usage in Perfumery
Attested on 34 Fragrantica entries and none on Parfumo. Fragrantica files it under musk, amber and animalic smells and calls it a savoury note. In use it sits with solar florals, driftwood accords, salt and light ambers.
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Perfumes featuring Sea Shells
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