Aquatic & marine fragrances

Accords that recall water, sea air, salt or wet stone.

Scentorian assigns these categories for browsing. Fragrances can belong to several families; the house may describe them differently.

26 fragrances

Be Delicious Eau de Parfum

DKNY — Crisp green apple and cucumber with grapefruit, then clean magnolia and muguet, drying to a powdery finish of pale woods, amber and musk.

Chrome Eau de Toilette

Azzaro — Bright citrus, cool metal and mineral water, then clean musk and a dry tea-and-wood character that some wearers compare to freshly washed linen..

Classic Warm Cotton

CLEAN Beauty Collective — Freshly dried laundry, as reviewers keep putting it, built from bright lemon, cotton and a marine note on warm musk.

Cool Water Eau de Toilette

Davidoff — Still the cleanest thing to wear on a hot day, to its owners, this is the blue aquatic that set the template: mint, lavender and a salty, ozonic splash on musk.

Cool Water Woman Eau de Toilette

Davidoff — Cold, sharp and fruity, to the wearer who made it their first love; to another, an icy gulp of water on a summer day, or what the Windows XP hills would smell like.

Dune

Dior — Dry mineral air, sea breeze and a faint hay-like sweetness, likened by reviewers to pebbles, driftwood and dust.

En Passant

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Wet lilac and cucumber with a warm, dough-like accent.

Fantomas Extrait de Parfum

Nasomatto — Melon candy on hot asphalt: wearers describe watermelon and caramel against rubber, vinyl and gunpowder smoke, like an inflatable pool toy left out in the sun.

Fathom V

BeauFort London — Cold green stems, pond water and lilies: a florist's refrigerator, in the comparison reviewers reach for most often.

Jean Paul Gaultier — Watermelon eaten near the rind, one wearer says, then lily and salt on a sea breeze, with creamy vanilla and meringue beneath; to another it is a luscious dessert by the beach until a wave leaves a mouthful of sea water.

Happy for Men Eau de Toilette

Clinique — Clinique brings out the lemon press and the mandarin peeler, as one reviewer puts it: a bright citrus with a herbal, marine cool, one wearer's first fragrance friend and another's turn-of-the-millennium gift.

Invictus Eau de Toilette

Rabanne — Grapefruit and a salty marine accord sweetened almost to bubblegum: a teenage signature of the early 2010s, worn to the club, the office and the gym alike.

L'Eau d'Issey Eau de Toilette

Issey Miyake Parfums — Cool lotus and white lilies with a faint metallic edge, pale woods and soft musk.

Le Beau Paradise Garden Eau de Parfum

Jean Paul Gaultier — Mint and ginger open with a cold snap while green, watery notes sit underneath; then come coconut and a humid fig that one wearer likens to the Amazon rainforest and another to a very good coconut hair conditioner.

Polo Blue Eau de Toilette

Ralph Lauren — Melon and a great deal of cucumber, then basil, sage and a soft suede: a just-showered blue that one owner has reached for three summers running and another, who first wore it in high school, has bought again.

Pure Grace Eau de Toilette

Philosophy — Soap and water, mostly: laundry off the line to one wearer, a white T-shirt to another, Nivea cream out of the cold blue tin to a third.

Sécrétions Magnifiques Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Reactions divide sharply to its salty, metallic and milky accords, sometimes likened to blood, set on iris and sandalwood; what many reviewers agree on is that it projects hard and does not let go..

Sel Marin Eau de Parfum

Heeley — Salt, lemon and wet algae with a dry mineral character; the vivid opening often narrows to a close vetiver, wearers say..

Squid Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — The sea at night rather than the beach by day: ink, salt and incense over a sweet, boozy amber, which one wearer who normally avoids blue-bottle aquatics rates as the real thing.

Steamed Rainbow

D.S. & Durga — Humid pavement, water and a faint plastic edge that wearers liken to pool floats or bubble solution.

Thunderstorm Cologne Spray

Demeter Fragrance Library — Demeter describes earth and plant oils in humid air around a summer thunderstorm.

Tonnerre Eau de Parfum

BeauFort London — Gunpowder, brandy and charred wood after a brief citrus opening, as wearers tell it, with birch tar adding a smoked-meat impression before it settles toward salt and ash..

Vacation Eau de Toilette

Vacation — It smells like sunscreen, and that is the point: coconut, banana and a squeeze of pineapple over chlorinated water and warm vinyl.

Voyage Eau de Toilette

Nautica — From college classes to job interviews, this is the budget summer scent wearers throw on without thinking: green apple and cucumber on a salty, watery lotus.

Wood Sage & Sea Salt Cologne

Jo Malone London — A windswept coastal walk rather than a beach, as owners describe it: salt air and dry sage on a mineral, driftwood-like base.