ANOMALIA
Aquatic Ozonic

2022

jasmine
mandarin
aquatic notes

cedarwood
chamomile
pine needle

vanilla
patchouli

‘The joy of a stroll along with the water’s edge, a wind of freedom blows, sweeps our hair and offers us the promise of an infinite summer. Aquatic Ozonic perfectly captures the scents of a walk on the coast, where the scents of land and sea meet, intertwine and blend sensually. With its combination of aquatic notes and pine needles, this eau de parfum is a concentrate of freshness, just warmed with a hint of chamomile and vanilla.’ – Anomalia

With Aquatic in the name, this fragrance was fighting an uphill battle, but the fragrances I tried from Anomalia thus far were all pretty good, so I hoped this would work out.

Unfortunately, it didn’t. This fragrance has several facets that threw me off. Initially, with the mandarin being very strong, ripe, almost too ripe. Like it’s been sitting in a hot car all day. Mixed with a… green marine base. The pine and watery notes add a car freshener scent to that car with the mandarins in the backseat.

It doesn’t smell as logically together as you would assume citrus and aquatic notes to smell. The citrus is too rich and the aquatics are too green and both end up smelling highly unnatural to me.

Chamomile takes over more once the mandarin fades, but in no way does this smell similar to me to Gucci’s Memoire d’une Odeur, to which Aquatic Ozonic has been compared to.

I like it a lot better once that ripe mandarin fades, but the green tinges here are very grassy and that rubs me personally the wrong way (for those that have smelled ingredients, I found the grassy cis-3-hexenol about as hard to bear as pure indols or skatole).

Safe to say, this one isn’t for me.