Salt Air
by Demeter Fragrance Library

A nice fragrance: It smells pretty much salty, and I get a short-lived ocean experience from it, but mainly I get salt. I really enjoy it as a room spray, but it makes a very nice personal fragrance for the times I don't want anything obtrusive.

before going to the beach, I sprayed one arm with Salt Air, and left the other unscented. Devious, no? Or maybe just tragically or simply redundant.

Hours later, subjected to heat, sweat, the ocean breeze and a long dip in the Atlantic, the Salt Air arm smelled just the way I *think* my skin smells after a day on the beach. My right arm, exposed to a day on the beach
un-Demetered, seemed unscented by comparison.

This one should win an award for tenacity. It also gets points for not having that buttery note that makes some beach scents sticky (M. Hulot's Holiday, for example). Long-lasting, too. My favorite beachy scent so far.

I will just add that this fragrance reminds me of the Cliffs of Moher along the southwest coast of Ireland. Beautiful place. This fragrance takes me back, if only for a couple of hours. (I find the sillage on this is better than most Demeters.)

Captures that first whiff when you get out of the car on the first day at the beach when the sky is brilliant, the waves sparkle and possibilities seem limitless. So what if it only lasts an hour - at these prices you can reapply;y endlessly.

Demeter's Salt Air is a light feminine fragrance that has marine notes as well as musk which gives it that “soapy clean” aspect that so many people seem to love. At the risk of being completely unoriginal, it is a pleasant little perfume that is best suited for the summertime and being outdoors. Also, you can’t go wrong with Demeter’s low prices. The only drawback to Salt Air is, of course, that Demeter perfumes have notoriously short lives although this one has better sillage than most. For those of you who know the CB I Hate Perfumes’ line, Demeter Salt Air is a kissing cousin to CBIHP’s Mr. Hulot’s Holiday. Salt Air would be a great gift for a teenaged girl that wants to smell "clean" or for a new mother that doesn’t want to wear heavy fragrances around her baby.

Here are the notes: marine, ozones, white floral, musk, driftwood, salt.