Aqua Motu. Comptoir Sud Pacifique.

Perfumist: Unknow.

Countains ozone, lily of the valley, helycrisum, sand note, ylang, kelp.

As I’m wearing today, I have to speak about It.
Aqua Motu is another of the niche reinventation of a marine perfume. This time is a nice synthetic variation, and It has several fans behind It that loves synthetic and oceanic (including myself).
This fragrance is not following the same rules of the recent releases; there isn’t here sun tan lotion of reminescents of tropical drinks (modern silly notes added specially in nefast American new fragrances).
It smells absolutely nothing like an actual beach anywhere, but, at the same time , in a really funny way, it is an almost perfect, memory, (and olfactory) picture of the beach, maybe in fall: the sky still dark but It’s enough pleasant to walk through the shore.The sea is wavy, and It’s kind of windy too...

It’s basicly a linear, and grey fragrance. As I said above, there’s not here the salty twist of the maritime breeze, It’s has a nostalgic remembering for me when in middle summer,I used to cross to the other side of the Ria, by boat, when I was living in Vigo, Galicia.
There’s something more deep and oceanic that a beach shore.
It has touches of breaking, wavy, deep ocean water, and reminds me of diving and scuba-diving too.
Aqua Motu starts just ozonic, and after that It just pure synthetic:
I can detect the sand, like a dry accord, some algae (very faded) and very strong helycrisum notes, a maritime shrub, with silver leafs and yellow flowers with acrid and kind of rubbery smell, (similar to a plastic pool toy note).
The whole fragrance turns around the helycrisum and heated sand, some algae notes with a blast of aquatic synthetic notes. It's oddly balanced between watery and dry, between heat and cool.

My collegue from work said to me, once, that reminded her the smell of a scuba diving suit wet of sea water, but later, she admitted that has a hint of the atmosphere as the penguin aquarium at London zoo...
It’s very pleasant to use anytime, anywhere. It’s rather subtle and the long lasting is ok, enough to put above you floating nostalgic auras of a beach in a bottle.

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