- Origin
- an accord composed by the perfumer
- Raw materials
- aquatic and ozonic molecules
- Extraction
- synthesis
- Olfactory group
- fresh (aquatic)
- Position in the pyramid
- top note and heart
- Synthetic substitutes
- Calone (traces), Helional, watery aldehydes
Watery notes are an abstract accord conveying the sense of clean fresh water: a spring, dewdrops, water with a fine glassy chill. Unlike marine notes, there is no salt or seaweed here — only transparency and coolness.
How it smells: fresh, transparent and cool: clean water, a light cucumber-like and floral shade, a faintly mineral note. Watery notes sound calm, minimalist and like early morning.
Water itself has no smell, so the perfumer creates only an impression of moisture and coolness with special aquatic molecules. They add airiness to a composition, making any notes lighter and more transparent.
What it pairs with: with lotus and water lily — transparent florals, with cucumber and green tea — fresh “spa” compositions, with citrus — summer vigour, with ozonic notes — “air after rain”, with musk — “clean skin”.
Good to know: the fashion for aquatic fragrances began in the late 1980s, when perfumers gained new synthetic molecules able to convey the very sensation of water.
