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Ellis Brooklyn Salt
Sea air, ambrette, cardamom. Beach without the coconut cliché.
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The Beach-and-Sun Hedonist
The fragrance equivalent of a tan line.
Salt, coconut, citrus, ambrette, sun-warm skin. The Beach-and-Sun Hedonist wants their fragrance to feel like the body lotion you put on right out of the shower in July. Some of these are literal beach references — sea breeze, suntan oil, white florals — and some are abstract: the impression of warm skin without the literal coconut. They wear loud on hot skin and quiet on cold skin, which is correct: this is summer fragrance, full stop.
Test in the season you'll wear it. A beach scent on a January morning is a different (worse) fragrance than the same bottle in August.
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Three picks
Another great option
Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio
The reference fresh aquatic. Half the world has worn it. There's a reason.
The wild card
Sol de Janeiro Cheirosa 68 Hair & Body Fragrance Mist Travel Size/3.0 fl oz
Pistachio, salted caramel, coconut. Bodega-aisle hedonism, no apology.
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