Five Fathoms
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A descent into the ocean, one fathom at a time. Five fragrances that move from cold air above the water to the kind of darkness where ships disappear and nothing has a name.
Each fragrance below is hand-decanted from an authentic retail bottle. This kit includes:
- Etat Libre d'Orange—You Or Someone Like You
Mint, hedione and grapefruit. The weightless electric feeling of standing somewhere high before a decision that can't be undone.
- Ibraheem Al Qurashi—Spanish Tobacco
Saffron and tonka that warm you in, then something metallic and animalic surfaces underneath. The moment the water closes over your head.
- Acqua di Parma—Ambra
Ancient ambergris character, salty and alive in a way that has nothing to do with the beach. The smell of deep water and deep time.
- Amouage—Enclave
Cold spearmint giving way to burning mineral salt, the specific air of a desert cliff falling straight into the sea. Dry, pressurized, ancient.
- Zoologist—Portuguese Man o' War
Gunpowder opening into dark metallic seaweed and crushed geranium. The smell of a ship going down at night with nobody watching.
Who it's For: People who love the ocean and want a fragrance that actually goes there, past the sunscreen and sea breeze and into something older and stranger and worth finding.
Houses: Five houses each pushing at what an aquatic fragrance can actually be, from a Saudi perfumer redefining the category to a Canadian naturalist house that treats the ocean like a living thing worth documenting.
Full Bottle Range: ~$65 – $340. Five genuinely different houses operating at different scales, not five price tiers of the same thing.
Best Worn: Spring through summer. These fragrances need warmth and skin heat to open properly and show what they actually are.
Every fragrance in your Curated Nose discovery set is hand-decanted directly from a full, authentic retail bottle. What you receive is the real thing, just in a smaller size. Bottle imagery is for reference only and does not represent what is included unless a full bottle option is explicitly available. Curated Nose is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the fragrance houses represented in our sets.
Pre-order. This exhibition is produced to order in a limited run. Orders close on a fixed date listed at launch. If this run does not proceed, all orders are refunded in full.