A reconstructed natural ingredient — seaweed absolute exists but is rarely used due to its intensity. Most seaweed notes in perfumery are constructed from a combination of marine molecules, green materials and slightly animalic-iodine accords.

Natural seaweed absolute from Atlantic and Pacific coastal harvesting. More commonly: constructed synthetic accord.

Dry, slightly briny, slightly iodine-forward, mineral and faintly animalic. Cold water seaweed smells completely different from tropical seaweed — drier, more austere, more geological. The difference between Atlantic and Pacific seaweed is analogous to the terroir differences in vetiver.

Seaweed adds naturalism and reality to Aquatic compositions — the difference between fragrances that smell like the idea of the ocean and fragrances that smell like actual shoreline. It appears in the most sophisticated marine compositions as a grounding animalic-mineral element.

Also appears in: Animalic, Fresh