Aquatic

What it is

Built almost entirely on one molecule, Calone, introduced in 1966 and everywhere by 1990. Nothing about it comes from the sea.

What it smells like

Cool and wet, read by most people as sea air or rain on stone. It defined a decade so completely that it now carries a date stamp, and a fragrance leaning on it tends to be placed in the nineties whether or not it was made then.

How strongly it is worn

The average strength this accord is listed at, where 100 means it dominates the fragrance.

63 / 100

What builds it

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

Accords it sits beside

Same measure, with its own family filtered out. Saying woody turns up with oud is a restatement, not a finding.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Calvin Klein (11), Hermes (8), Azzaro (7), Burberry (6), Givenchy (6), Jean Paul Gaultier (6).