Cyan Nori

This perfume is simplistic yet very unique at the same time. I have always wanted a perfume that smells like the beach, a clean beach w/ no people there. My husband and I went to Hawaii on our honeymoon 31 years ago and we drove around and found a secluded spot on the beach. It was an amazing day, the sun was shining, there were no other people around except us. We had the whole beach to ourselves. I remember holding his hand and we were smiling at each other, we were so young, so happy. I breathed in deep. Hawaii usually smells like flowers everywhere and it is beautiful but I remember thinking how clean the beach smelled far away from those flowering trees and from people. I recorded that day and that smell in my memory.. I have wanted a perfume that smelled like that day on that perfect beach but I thought that would be impossible to recreate and if it could be done the perfume would be full of chemicals and I would not want it. Enter 2020 and Abel fragrance. When I smelled this I had to have it. I was so blown away by how these simple ingredients created the smell of that beach in Hawaii. If you want a perfume that really smells like a clean healthy beach drenched in sunshine this is the perfume for you.

I am truly, madly, deeply obsessed with this scent. It is everything I have been hoping for in a marine, oceanic scent. It's got this your skin-but-better just as you get out of the ocean vibe. There is a seaweed, salty almost bodily smell to it ( the salty, fishy seaweed pops out occasionally, but in a really interesting way, not gross!), but on my skin, it just adds to the salty-musk that lands on the skin which is ripened and sweetened by the peach and musky seaweed notes. The biggest, most painful downside is that it has about a half hour of longevity, and even if I OVERSPRAY, like Jeremy Fragrance level blast the scent on me (iykyk), the longevity still isn't there, not even on clothes. The cheat here though is that the extrait perfume oil last SO much longer. I put it on my inner elbows and on my neck and it lasts all day long. I can smell it in my hair and when I turn my head. The salt note is maybe the most ephemeral so that fades, but the marine peachy musk lasts so long with the perfume oil. Big thank you to the reviewer below that pointed that out! You're totally correct, @mccroni!

To the reviewers below, Abel offers an excellent sample service. Also, there are sample kits for Abel's fragrances at many different online retailers. You should have sampled before you invested in full bottles. Many types of scent molecules can't be smelled by many different people not just musk's. Sample before buying then you won't get burned. You can't expect a refund for a beauty product, you use it you therefore now own it. Try selling your bottle to someone on this site. You probably won't get full price for it, but you could recoup some of your money. I would be willing to buy it, if the price is right. I love this perfume and I can smell the musk.

You’re walking out of the ocean. A strand of seaweed clings to your thigh, but you flick it away effortlessly. You lie down beside someone you love. Their skin is warm from the sun, carrying the faint sweetness of a ripe peach they ate earlier. Cyan Nori captures that exact moment: salty skin, clean ocean air, and a whisper of fruity warmth. It’s an intimate aquatic skin scent rather than a marine blast—soft, sunlit, and quietly addictive. I couldn’t get enough of it throughout the summer months.

I have the parfum extrait (7ml) version of this fragrance and love it! Zesty tangerine opening (which can sometimes lean almost fishy—not in a bad way) that quickly settles into a salty but clean skin smell. Like you jumped through the shower after a sea swim and didn't quite wash the ocean off. The bottle is tiny (great for travel) and you don't go through it fast. Value-wise, I'd definitely go for the extrait over the EDP.