Ozonic scents are characterized by their aquatic, fresh, and sometimes cold notes. Their scent evokes images of the fresh seaside air, or the cool, clean scent of laundry waving gently in the breeze. Subtle undertones of chlorine or metal add a unique crystalline freshness to ozonic accords.
Ozonic notes were already known in Antiquity. Our ancestors associated ozonic notes with the intense scent of the earth after a lightning storm—vivid and burnt, intermingled with the sharp, fresh smell of rain. But the molecule was only discovered in 1840 and was named “ozone”—in reference to the Greek “ozein,” which means emitting a scent or smelling.
A typical masculine scent of the 90s, Kenzo pour Homme surfs the wave of marine notes, but in a less salty, more ozonic version, on a very masculine, dry woods, base.
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