What it smells like
Sea spray, rain on hot stone, cold air. This facet is almost entirely a synthetic achievement, because no natural extract smells of the sea. It is built from molecules such as Calone and dihydromyrcenol, which suggest wetness with no wet material behind them.
Where it stops
Aquatic reads as cold and empty. Green reads as cold and alive. If you can name a plant, it has moved to Green.
Smells most like
water accord - and in the same register, calone, freshwater accord.
Notes that load on it
Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.
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Sea Water
Mineral
Musk
Heart · ~4h
Mineral
832
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Rain
Mineral
Top · ~1h
Abstract
32
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Ozonic Notes
Top · ~2h
Abstract
197
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Calone
Mineral
Top · ~1.5h
Molecule
93
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Freshwater Accord
Heart · ~4h
Abstract
2
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Aqual™
Mineral
Heart · ~5h
Molecule
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Floralozone
Base · ~36h
Molecule
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Plasma
Mineral
Top · ~2h
Abstract
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Sea Foam
Mineral
Top · ~2h
Abstract
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Sea Mist
Mineral
Heart · ~5h
Abstract
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Lotus
Floral
Honey
Heart · ~5h
Botanical
445
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Water Lily
Floral
Powdery
Heart · ~4h
Botanical
328
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Aquozone
Heart · ~8h
Molecule
8
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Blue Sky Accord
Mineral
Top · ~2h
Abstract
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Cascalone
Mineral
Base · ~36h
Molecule
17
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Water Accord
Top · ~1h
Abstract
12
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Sea Cucumber
Mineral
Animalic
Heart · ~7h
Abstract
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Aquatic
Top · ~1h
Abstract
142
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Water Hyacinth
Green
Floral
Heart · ~4h
Botanical
25
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Fog
Musk
Mineral
Heart · ~4h
Abstract
Materials that carry it
Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.
| Material | CAS | Terms | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| scentenal | CAS 86803-90-9 | marine, ozone | IFRA |
| 2-piperonyl propanal | CAS 737776-68-0 | marine, ozone | |
| (4-methylphenoxy)acetaldehyde | CAS 67845-46-9 | marine, ozone | |
| 6-methoxy-2,6-dimethyloctanal | CAS 929253-05-4 | marine, ozone | |
| (4E)-5,9-dimethyldeca-4,8-dienal | CAS 18445-88-0 | marine, ozone | |
| 7-methyl-1,5-benzodioxepin-3-one | CAS 28940-11-6 | marine, ozone | |
| 7-prop-2-enyl-1,5-benzodioxepin-3-one | marine, ozone | ||
| 3-(4-ethylphenyl)-2,2-dimethylpropanal | CAS 67634-15-5 | marine, ozone | |
| 1-ethoxy-4-(2-methylbutan-2-yl)cyclohexane | CAS 181258-87-7 | marine, ozone | |
| 3-(4-ethylphenyl)-2,2-dimethylpropanenitrile | CAS 134123-93-6 | marine, ozone | |
| 3-(4-methylpent-3-enyl)cyclohex-3-ene-1-carbonitrile | CAS 68084-04-8 | marine, ozone | |
| 8,8-dimethyl-2,3,4,5,6,7-hexahydro-1H-naphthalene-2-carbaldehyde | CAS 68991-97-9 | marine, ozone | IFRA |
| heptanal | CAS 111-71-7 | ozone | |
| verbenol | CAS 473-67-6 | ozone | |
| myrac aldehyde | CAS 37677-14-8 | marine | |
| precyclemone b | CAS 52474-60-9 | ozone | |
| cis-hexenyl oxyacetaldehyde | CAS 68133-72-2 | ozone | |
| 3-nonyne | CAS 20184-89-8 | marine | |
| 2-decenol | CAS 22104-80-9 | ozone | |
| undec-9-enal | CAS 1337-83-3 | ozone | |
| 10-undecen-1-ol | CAS 112-43-6 | ozone | |
| 1-methoxydecane | CAS 7289-52-3 | marine | |
| myrac aldehyde 1 | CAS 52475-89-5 | ozone | |
| octa-1,5-dien-3-ol | CAS 83861-74-9 | marine | |
| trans-2-decen-1-ol | CAS 18409-18-2 | ozone | |
| 1,1-dimethoxyoctane | CAS 10022-28-3 | ozone | |
| 2-phenoxyacetaldehyde | CAS 2120-70-9 | ozone | IFRA |
| 2,3,3-trimethylindanone | CAS 54440-17-4 | marine | |
| 2,6-dimethyl-5-heptenal | CAS 106-72-9 | ozone | |
| 3-methyldodecanonitrile | CAS 85351-07-1 | marine |
Showing 30 of 56. The full set ships with the published standard rather than being paginated here.
Reading the two flags
Declarable means the substance appears in Annex III of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, so it has to be named on the ingredient list once it passes a concentration threshold. IFRA means an IFRA Standard restricts or prohibits its use. Both are facts about the substance, not about any fragrance: a perfume can contain a declarable material below the threshold and never print it, and a restricted material used within its limit is used correctly.
The source also supplies no common name for a large share of materials, so those display as a bare registry number and are ranked last. They are kept because they are real evidence: dropping them would make the vocabulary look better described than it is.
Anchor terms
A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.
Direct
Terms that mean this facet outright
- marine
- ozone
Partial
Terms that lean this way but also load elsewhere
- watery
Thinly anchored
This facet rests on 2 direct terms, which makes it one of the more likely to move when the crosswalk is revised or a better source is found. It is flagged here rather than presented as equal in weight to a facet held up by nine.
The rest of Fresh & Citrus
The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.