Sweat, Tears, Paradise

Sweat, Tears, Paradise 🌊 I fell in love with this fragrance. It gives me a refreshing, cooling effect, like a salty sea breeze on warm skin after a day at the beach. Soft, clean, salty and incredibly comforting. I don't get anything boozy here — just ocean air, summer and pure relaxation. The first salty fragrance I've truly fallen for. Every spray feels like I've already spent hours by the sea. Beautiful, unique and addictive. My nervous system is very happy with this one. 😊 My rating: 10/10 ☀️

Smells like the best drink you've ever had while dancing with someone sweaty and sexy. Herbaceous but you have to search for it, salty, the absolute lightest whisper of floral, a perfect blend of the masculine and feminine. I am no joke pressing my arm into my nose and taking deep inhales. I've liked every scent from the discovery set but this one, the penultimate in the set, might get the FB buy.

I LOVE IT. it's doing shots when you're already little drunk so they down smoother, it's a green-lit smoking terrace outside a dive bar in a coastal town, it's the particular loneliness of being somewhere where no one knows your name. it's the sweet spot where melancholy and euphoria overlap.

Very beautiful and very weird fragrance. Definitely not for everyone. It’s giving me Heretic Black Salt a little bit, but Discoteque is more wearable and not that overwhelming as Heretic.

Hear me out, but the second this one met my wrist it smelled like a dental office. And that really is a hear me out because everyone I told just disagreed and laughed at me. Oh well, it was just on myself anyways, I couldn’t smell that on anyone else, so my chemistry and this one is not on good terms unfortunately. On the other hand, that only lasted for a few seconds before it turned into an herbal spicy and salty scent. Very masculine leaning and green, and oh how sexy. I maybe get some lily but that is overpowered by salt and herbs (which probably is the absinthe?). I maybe get the cedar as well, if I inhale the fragrance, but this one is mainly walking along a beach promenade at night and watching the dark starry skies whilst a salty breeze is caressing your chin. You have had a drink too many, walking with the love of your life, having a light and funny conversation that ends with «do you want to skinny dip?»

I didn’t know what to expect with this one, I usually hate scents with notes of mimosa and don’t particularly like absinthe but there’s something addictive about this, it’s salty with absinthe and touch of florals. I sprayed on my arm and can feel the scent wafting in the air. I can’t stop smelling my arm and it smells different each time on my skin. Sometimes herbaceous just stopping before it gets medicinal, then salty aquatic notes, then sweet floral. Not a scent I would usually go for but it’s so deliciously unusual. IG/Tiktok: @wilddew_vibes

by gum, am i a sucker for a fragrance story! first spray genuinely smelled like samphire and frothy tips of ocean waves. there was something alcoholic as well as salty, the rim of a margarita like people are saying. i'm wanting more cedarwood to take it from aquatic to marine, but i suspect that will come later in the dry down. unsure if i would wear this fragrance much as it does lean slightly too medicinally herby for my liking, but i am so glad to have a sample for when i want to smell the sea at night.

Joining the chorus to say this is a really nice, soft and familiar fragrance. It's nothing groundbreaking but it doesn't need to be. I don't really vibe with marine notes but the salty amber works beautifully here. I do have to mentally jump over my memories of Secretions Magnifique at first sniff, but thankfully it is a much more versatile and, praise the lawd, very much more wearable experience. It very much brings to my mind memories of summer days by the beach, warm wooden picnic tables, pure comfort.

Now this one is DIFFERENT. This to me smells like a heartbroken individual who rushed out the mansion’s ballroom party after discovering their partner was having an affair the entire time, and ran down to the neighboring beach of the mansion during the cold, heavy rainstorm - and drowned away their emotions in shots of absinthe. It’s a sharp, unforgiving, and dark scent. I like the story I think of this as more than the actual scent.

by and large the best crafted out of the entire set. wildly photorealistic scent in a way i'm not totally sure i like. smells like sweat and sand and waiting too long to take a shower after getting home from the beach. unfortunately this sours on me in a way where i.,.. uh,.... can't wear it in public. will not elaborate further, but from an artistic standpoint this is an expert creation

This perfume is a whisper between lovers. It is delicious and salty. I loved the marine notes. The main issue I had was it faded within two hours, and left only the barest salty notes at the end. For the price of a bottle, it's not worth it. However, I think I will be using the tester on my more dark and subtle days.

It's definitely salty- marine, sweat, tears, etc. There is something beautiful about it but there is also something very cloying and "extra" about it. When I sprayed it on paper I was like "hmmmm" and was convinced this would be the one I'd like best. So I put it on and after a few minutes I had to take it off. It's ultra-marine if you like that kind of thing!

They really did it with this one. I grew up on an island and living near the coast and this smells like a day on the beach to me. I don't really like it but it is what they say.

Wearing this on my wrist today as a skin test and it reminds me of my grandpa who passed, in the best way. The scent on skin reminds me of the old VO5 conditioner in the tube.

Salty like the rim of a Margarita and slightly citrusy and not much else unfortunately.

older woman again. i don't understand where people are getting anything other than old lady for some of this line haha. the lily is astonishingly strong and realistic off rip, and its rather salty too. the salt fades away, then it turns into just pure lily splashed in absinthe. longer it sits, the more cedar appears. the lily gives funeral flashbacks for me, but if that's your favorite flower or something definitely give this a go. not for me.

Had high hopes for this one. It has a very alcoholic opening. I bypassed the absinthe all together. I get none of that spicy licorice smell I was hoping for. It develops into a cool watery smell, and i can smell that cedarwood calling from the mist. Reminds me of a blue men's cologne. I had an unfortunate allergic reaction to it - had a sneezy, drippy nose for hours after I put it on. This is probably the fault of the lily.

this smells like a very clean fish tank!!! very clean like you could reach your hand in but a fish tank nonetheless. i don't want to smell like this!

Smells entirely different from paper to the skin. It’s like salty vintage aftershave

Smells like pure ammonia, not just for me but everyone that has the misfortune of smelling this

This reminds me of summer 1995, walking into my local pub on a Friday night when everyone was (or seemed to be) wearing L’Eau d’ Issey by Issey Miyake, myself included. The pub is full to the brim of excited young people ready to Party the weekend away. The intoxicating smell hits you, its a cocktail of L’Eau d’Issey, clean sweat and some other fragrances mingling in the air. The latter end of the dry down reminds me of the morning after, lying in bed with my partner, my nose nestled into his warm skin.

Waiting room of a doctors office in the 2000s; highlights magazine, tracing the pattern of the wallpaper trim, maroon office chairs, bead mazes. You fake a cold because your family doctor is so damn sexy you get goosebumps when he checks your breathing, you're totally going to marry him when you grow up.

The dark waters of the ocean at midnight, the electric sharpness of a looming thunderstorm. Glittery skin blurring together on the dancefloor like a pit of vipers. Being a little too aware that this body above you in the cool sand hidden from the rave behind a rock is a strangers.