Mare (1997)
by Beth Terry Creative Universe

Traveling Air Mare to foetidus' beach we arrive on the moon Titan circling around the gaseous giant Saturn. Mare smells ethereal, airy and clean and one heck of an oddball aquatic since it's more green, like seaweed, than blue like fresh scents. Cuts to a floral in the heart and fades.

Glad that more sophisticated noses than mine enjoy this one. No, no irony inteded. To me, however, this smells like Erolfa with an iodine band-aid around it. I'll pass. Strongly suggest sampling before buying

Mare is one of the only natural smelling marine scents I've worn. It loaded with sea salt and what smells like a blend of floral-oceanic notes. It evolves for its lengthy duration, and while I get some florals, I get a lot more of the brine, especially as Mare's sea salt and my sweat start to mingle and get funky in the heat. All of that salt also makes it feel somewhat sexual. It makes a good tonic after a shower, but in general I find it relatively dormant and useless in temperatures less that 75-80 fahrenheit. It needs warmth and sweat.

This smells like the beach — some strange, pure, clean, ideal beach without the seaweed and fishy smells, just salt air and occasional vegetal / floral breezes off the land. As the others have said, this is an astoundingly simple scent, and yet it accomplishes a lot — an escape to Cancun — white coral sands, turquoise sea, suntan lotion, and salt. So refreshing. So refined. HOWEVER! It’s not a good performer on my skin in the hot, humid weather. It turns abundantly floral—lily to be exact. And it throws a very strong sillage for such a light scent. This propensity toward floral is not a thing I appreciate. I’m not exactly a fan of aquatics, either, but I recognize their usefulness in tropical situations. Consequently, I don’t wear Mare in the hot weather and I want to wear something spicier, woodier in the cooler weather, so I seldom have reason to wear it.

Robyogi says it best -- scroll down to read his review.

Seaside? Hardly. Bright greenhouse in the spring? You betcha.

I have nothing to add by way of description or analysis here. Pluran and scentur7 have done better than I ever could.

Mare is the only aquatic besides Erolfa that has held the slightest interest for me, though except for a certain harsh, briny quality, they have almost nothing in common. Mare is "wet" where Erolfa is crusty-dry, bright where Erolfa is faded gray. Both utterly transcend the banal aquatic genre. An outstanding achievement.