Five Fathoms

Five Fathoms

$60.00 USD
Sale price  $60.00 USD Regular price 
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Five Fathoms

Five Fathoms

$60.00 USD
Sale price  $60.00 USD Regular price 
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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.

Details

Each fragrance below is hand-decanted from an authentic retail bottle. This kit includes:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
The Kit

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.

Authenticity

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.