Salt

Bvlgari

A marine transparency carried by bergamot and ginger, bright but never harsh.

bdk Parfums

"Sel d'Argent" — silver salt — names itself after the iodine-tinged mineral quality of seawater as much as its flavor.

Paco Rabanne

Olympéa Flora extends Paco Rabanne's goddess franchise toward something cooler and more mineral than its predecessors.

Guerlain

Embruns d'Ylang opens with a salt-laced bergamot that reads as sunlit coastal air before the ylang-ylang arrives in earnest.

The Merchant Of Venice

Mystic Incense opens with a strange, brief sweetness — caramel cut by a salt edge and a whiff of dried fruit — that quickly disappears under the smoke.

Lattafa Perfumes

Atlas opens with a cold, mineral freshness — sea notes, salt, and lemon create an open-air quality that reads northern rather than tropical, austere rather than breezy.

Givenchy

A holiday-edition variant on Le Secret, lighter and more aquatic than the original.

Victoria'S Secret

Intense opens fruit-led and shadowed: ripe plum darkened by a thread of saffron, the sharpness of the spice keeping the fruit from going syrupy.

Zara

A Mediterranean postcard in fragrance form, In St Tropez opens with bright citruses and the tingle of pepper before a strikingly incongruous heart arrives: the sweetness of bellini against the resinous austerity of frankincense, with geranium's green edge as a mediator between them.

Zara

A minimalist meditation on three notes.