Sturgeon Moon: Salt and Sand Hair Gloss

[Jenjin]

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Edited September 17, 2024 by Jenjin

[Lapis]

Fresh out of the mailbox, but it's ragweed season and we just had a pressure drop so I don't trust my nose for notes.
I like this scent, Pale woods (teak?), amber (grey, maybe a mix of grey and white) and a touch of ambergris accord?; clean yet warm.
Wet- the wood is most forward, dry it sweetens up.


The feel-
This is a surfer's beach at dusk. When everything is warm, sitting on warm sand with warm waves lapping your feet, there's wood stacked for a fire later, but at that golden hour you can enjoy the warmth the day imparted and chill.

A unisex take on Hag Grey if you wanted something to compare it to.

[Biocarbons]

Oh, I quite like this. It reminds me of 90s aquatic potpourri, but lighter and better blended with blonde woods and a hint of cucumber. There's a lightly smoky note that adds depth.

 

How Sail Away by Enya smells at dusk with a driftwood bonfire nearby.

Edited October 24, 2024 by Biocarbons

[groovyrooby]

This stuff is potent! I received a partial bottle as a frimp, which was awesome because I was very curious about this one. It's a great traditional fresh aquatic kind of smell - not particularly salty as I was hoping. Very blue-smelling. And from first whiff it struck me as a familiar scent... My husband thought it smelled like something you'd pick up at a fragrance counter, very 90s hip unisex. Not my typical style, but you never know, so I gave it a go. Welp. This is a dead-ringer for something my dad used to wear, therefore it's a no-go for me. Not that it's unpleasant! Not that my dad is unpleasant!! But it's so spot-on, I just feel like the dad of my teenage years is getting ready to go out for a date night with my mom, and that is not a scent I'm looking to have on my head. :P For better or worse, the scent is incredibly potent, and I only used a single spray - half the HG I normally use. Husband could smell me in the hallway with the door closed. I sprayed some Totality on top to try to smother it, but it still hung in there. If this scent is your jam, and I am certain it will have lots of love, this is a brilliant creation! Just very viscerally not for me due to personal associations.

[roseus]

I'm getting the blond woods mentioned, but to me this is also very mossy. Mossy, salty, woody aquatic. Not what I was looking for in an aquatic HG unfortunately but not unpleasant!

[Weirdgirlpilled]

you know the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer comes up with an idea for perfume that smells like you just came from the beach? that's this. Seconding the 90's aquatic musky/mossy vibe. This is something you'd bust out more during the summer than winter!! 

Edited November 13, 2024 by Weirdgirlpilled
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[puellacaerulea]

Definitely an aquatic, but not in a stereotypically beachy way -- a little mossy, woody, and musky, and I notice that the fresh salt note recedes a bit after application. Reminds me a bit of the Teakwood, Moss, & Salt trio, but it's not as bracing and cool as that trio -- this is warmer and more conventionally summery. I wish that fresh, clean salt note hung around longer, but I'm still likely to get a full size of this for warm-weather wear.

[ShadowEtienne]

There's a place near where I live that has a rocky waterfront beach park. A ways along the beach from the entrance, there's a place where a little stream tumbles down the rocks from the greenery covered headlands above, and has a short stretch across the sand to the Sound. The beach smells of sand and salt fresh air and the briny green of freshly washed up kelp, but that particular spot where there is always good driftwood to sit on, also smells of fresh water infused with the green of having recently been among plants.

 

This hair gloss smells like that spot in the cooler months.

 

It's a lovely, fresh aquatic with elements of both fresh and salt water, as well as sand and greenery.

 

It works really well in harmony with other aquatics as well as with citrus notes.