Marine

What it is

Salt, seaweed and mineral notes, distinct from aquatic in aiming at the shore rather than at water in the abstract.

What it smells like

Salty and mineral, like sea spray on rock. It is drier and less sweet than the aquatic accord, and it reads as open air rather than as a swimming pool, which is the usual complaint about its neighbour.

How strongly it is worn

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

73 / 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.

Paco Rabanne (8), Azzaro (5), Giorgio Armani (4), Mancera (3), Calvin Klein (2), Hermes (2).