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Royal Air Maroc - no, what a minute, that's an airline's name.

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Originally Posted by fredricktoo Anyone who can come up with 'Dune' as a viable answer to the sand fragrace question has a mind like a Stainless Steel trap.
sand smell's an awful lot like quartz. if you have some crystal wands, any amethyst or citrine at all, crystal balls or egss, smoky quartz, geodes with quartz inclusions. Give any of them a sniff. also any sand in a bottle from the painted desert, death valley or the new jersey shore are sure fire ways of getting the sand fragrance.
I must also add that quartz can only be scratched (leaving a gouge) by one other stone. I came up with Dune, which is a more viable answer than whatever you said?
He didn't ask what materials from nature you could gather up in a bottle & sniff, he asked what cologne smelled kind of beachy. Don't worry about my mind, it's really good. People, if you don't agree with my choice, then fine, but don't get nasty with me. I didn't say I liked Dune, but it was one fragrance, that I smelled that smelled like the beach, & sand & grit. I live in Florida, and I'm around the beach alot, and to me, it smelled similar, and I'm sure there are alot of other fragrances that might be better choices, but this is the first one that came to mind. I think also some of the new Hermes fragrances smell like sand & beach, Elixir, eau de Merveilles, and Terres. Fredricktoo, are you around the beach alot? Maybe your a better expert than I, I don't know.

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Originally Posted by Squeezeweasel If, when you say sand, you mean something a bit salty, a bit dry and kind of earthy, then try The Different Company's Sel de Vetiver. I've never really got it with Dune; I enjoy the perfume, but I don't get sand dunes from it! Squeezeweasel,
Try Dune Pour Homme. The sand note is definitely more apparent than in the women's version. It is there, however, in the women's perfume, and it was a conscious effort on the part of the perfumer, Jean-Louis Sieuzac, and those at Dior to create what they conceived of as an oceanic floral. The oceanic notes are achieved through the use of broom, oakmoss, and amber.
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Originally Posted by Dolly Dagger I came up with Dune, which is a more viable answer than whatever you said?
He didn't ask what materials from nature you could gather up in a bottle & sniff, he asked what cologne smelled kind of beachy. Don't worry about my mind, it's really good. People, if you don't agree with my choice, then fine, but don't get nasty with me. I didn't say I liked Dune, but it was one fragrance, that I smelled that smelled like the beach, & sand & grit. I live in Florida, and I'm around the beach alot, and to me, it smelled similar, and I'm sure there are alot of other fragrances that might be better choices, but this is the first one that came to mind. I think also some of the new Hermes fragrances smell like sand & beach, Elixir, eau de Merveilles, and Terres. Fredricktoo, are you around the beach alot? Maybe your a better expert than I, I don't know. Whoever you are, Castorpollux said Dune first but I thought someone else said Dune first and I know it wasn't you. I don't need a re-hash of what he said and I said either. I live in NJ check your map. Are you new here? I have sand in my ass now and I need to meditate. Good bye.

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Originally Posted by fredricktoo Whoever you are, Castorpollux said Dune first but I thought someone else said Dune first and I know it wasn't you. I don't need a re-hash of what he said and I said either. I live in NJ check your map. Are you new here? I have sand in my ass now and I need to meditate. Good bye. Your a character, my whole family lives in New Jersey, and none of them live near the beach, that is just the Jersey Shore. You check the map...lol... Your right, you do need to meditate, with or without the sand....

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Originally Posted by Dolly Dagger I came up with Dune, which is a more viable answer than whatever you said?
He didn't ask what materials from nature you could gather up in a bottle & sniff, he asked what cologne smelled kind of beachy. Don't worry about my mind, it's really good. People, if you don't agree with my choice, then fine, but don't get nasty with me. I didn't say I liked Dune, but it was one fragrance, that I smelled that smelled like the beach, & sand & grit. I live in Florida, and I'm around the beach alot, and to me, it smelled similar, and I'm sure there are alot of other fragrances that might be better choices, but this is the first one that came to mind. I think also some of the new Hermes fragrances smell like sand & beach, Elixir, eau de Merveilles, and Terres. Fredricktoo, are you around the beach alot? Maybe your a better expert than I, I don't know. Originally Posted by Dolly Dagger Your a character, my whole family lives in New Jersey, and none of them live near the beach, that is just the Jersey Shore. You check the map...lol... Your right, you do need to meditate, with or without the sand.... How funny, Dagger, that we just got over a fight of yours on another thread. Here we are with a new one, after you've been warned to get along and said you'd try to follow the rules.
This is an interesting thread showing the variety of thoughts Basenotes members can offer in the process of thinking about scents. The only anomaly on it is your internal wish to moderate it, your distain on the first page for what the original poster seeks to know, your perceived slight, and now your comment's elevation to an attack on a member, telling him to meditate. Basenotes isn't a place for your personal attacks. You've been warned before, and here we have trouble again.
I anticipate your perception of persecution and your accusation that I'm bullying you. Like I haven't heard that before from you plenty of times. I'm sure, as before, you'd like nothing better to use this thread as your stage for acting out your dramatic accusations and victimhood. Don't. That will only prove that you need the public drama more than you want to get along as a member of the site. Don't post here to make yourself--again--the center of attention on a legitimate thread. Let the poster and contributors discuss what they mean and want by sand scents.
Frustration with moderation at Basenotes is for writing in a PM to me. So do that.
--Chris

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I found this scientific reference to the "odor of sand":
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posed to larval odor than when exposed to the odor of sand. alone (P < 0.05) (Fig. 4a). ... ther methanol control or the odor of sand; see below) was ...
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unfortunately one has to belong to the learned society in question to read further...
anyway it exists in nature, the odor of sand I am reassured.

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+1 on Sables (Goutal)
Hot sand with a touch of spice.