A vibrant aquatic – Seahorse celebrates the myriads upon myriads of colour and texture in a coral garden. It grips the wearer immediately, enchanting them in its dazzling display of colours. Its opening is amazing, the sort that can be repeated forever: it is cool and chewy, delicious and balanced – blue, herbal, and green, with the soft and cooling surrender of fennel, which is much more rounded and tender than its sharp anisic counterpart, and the sappy, resinous, green, and almost icy touch of cardamom. Finally, clary sage offers soothing freshness – an amazing length of herbaceous and soft warm echoes. Meanwhile, algae lends a salty and realistic effect, reinforcing that this is pure and foamy coastal waters and not the sublime depths of the sea (as it is in Squid).
Seahorse is pure yet quirky as is characteristic of Zoologist. It dares to envisage a bursting white garden of neroli and tuberose blooms – solar floral notes that scintillate in the sunlight with heady buttery-milky-creamy impressions – against cool seawater. It might remind you of the nicest days at the beach, the wind collecting and carrying scent on its voyage, calming the effect of persistent sunlight. Seahorse has gravitas – as it dries down it reveals notes of vetiver, ambergris, … an almost oily slick floating on the surface of the aromatic-aquatic bouillon. Seahorse reiterates Zoologist’s amazing feature: single ideas are the source of boundless creative inspiration. Here, perfumer Julien Rasquinet focuses on vibrancy and complexity: an infinite iridescence.