Alkemia recently released new summer scents and I finally received and let rest a sample I bought from this collection. What is cool about Alkemia’s catalogue is that, though there are seasonal collections, they are available year round! No limited time of year offerings besides the free additional alchemies they make monthly for if you spend over a certain amount. The perfume has rested for about 2 weeks now but I hope to check in in a few months to see if it continues to change. The Sea Has Many Gods intrigued me with its name and I am into aquatics a lot recently. The perfume is in oil format.

Notes: A collection of ritual sea offerings infused with the echo of oceanic reply  – sea sage, maile leaves, tuberose garlands, seaweed, spiral seashells, and grey ambergris.

Smelling this in the bottle, it’s salty and oceanic. It reminds me of the other aquatic I have from them, Swamp Fairy (Feu Follet) but as a brine-y counterpart. It is a bit on the cologne-y side. On the skin, it morphs into straight up dryer sheets. It smells like clean laundry. It stays this way with no salt or ocean smell that I can detect for a few hours before drifting into a faint laundry/ freshly clean skin musk. It smells pleasant and super realistic to the dryer sheets I have, but for something referring to gods of the sea, I was imagining something oceanic and cool. I know this is a common theme in fragrance and soaps, calling something ocean scented and making it just a clean laundry scent but I thought this would be different. I also wonder if it would benefit from more rest or maybe it is just how I smell it. I will be looking to see what other people think of this scent.