1° 24’ 9”E / 51° 23’ 34”N

Sadly all fragrances from this brand are discontinued.

This scent is called Walpole Bay and it's a Edp - It's based on a uninhabited bay with remnants of beach use in times gone by and only a raw natural beauty left behind to enjoy. For those who have no idea about this scent or the creators let me give you some information before I describe the scent. Haeckels has a shop in the lovely Margate area in the UK that sells products with all natural ingredients. They have a range of Edp fragrances that are based on areas around their location with the ingredients sourced from the area as well. They even have a lovely video of each of the areas the scents were inspired by so you can wear the scent and check out the video at the same time. Now this scent is made up of Galbanum which accounts for the intense greeness, lavender and eucalyptus. I'm sure there are other notes but these are the main players. One spray to my arm was all that was needed to produce a intense sharp green fresh aroma. This quickly opens up to produce this watery saline effect, like your smelling the watery sea in the air. So if you can imagine a intense greenness mixed in with what smells to my nose like watery green sea air just caressing your senses like your walking on a old beach. It's quite unique and very strong, the projection is almost overwhelming. The mix of Galbanum, lavender and eucalyptus does produce a very unusual and evocative fragrance and one I have not smelled before. The quality is good and I like it but it does overwhelm my senses at times, it's very fresh and that watery sea air effect is amazing. They have actually captured it quite well, sometimes I smell it and it's good. Other-times it overwhelms me but it is the definition of unique.

This fragrance was polarizing to me. Throughout the day I felt both captured by the marine salinity, but also overwhelmed at times with the sharp freshness. Walpole Bay is a sharp, green, clean, marine fragrance. Galbanum, to me, is green, but it is also bitter and earthy -- this is something that I feel perhaps lacked in this fragrance. The salinity was portrayed extremely well, but I wanted earthy, salty, green seawater, seashells, limestone, and wild grasses. Overall, the fragrance is simply too sharp and clean to evoke a feeling of worn cliffsides, wet sand, and tidal pools.

I've never visited Walpole Bay, but I have visited Dieppe which isn't too far off...This fragrance was truly reminiscent of the smell of the sea there, with the long grasses blowing in the breeze...It's a very nice scent and surprisingly powerful for this combination of ingredients. I would think the designers would have gone for a edt instead but I'm pleasantly surprised that this got the 'ooomf' of the edp treatment. Spray lightly...One or two is all you need.

According to this, West Kazakhstan (based on the fragrance name coordinates) smells pretty good!

The coordinates are for Walpole Bay in Kent, and this is the name of the fragrance.