Sea Salt

I've bumped into two different sea salts recently. One is a clothing shop in Cornwall named in English: Sea Salt. It sells organic cotton things with stripes, canvas bags and coats to keep the wind out. Just right for a British summer holiday.
The other - which goes perfectly with the clothing - is Sel Marin, French for sea salt of course by Heeley. Put on your stripy top and matching stripy socks, and perhaps add an elegant stripy cotton hair band, then you're ready for a spritz of the sea.
I've been searching for the right seaside scent. It's something to do with being brought up by a beach, but the smell of wet sand and seaweed evokes limitless freedom. It's not much to do with sunshine, more with waves splashing high against sea walls, fast-moving clouds and boats bobbing up and down in the distance. Northern European sea salt.

James Heeley kindly lists his notes: Lemon, Italian Bergamot, Beech Leaf, Sea Salt, Moss, Algae, Cedar and Musc. He also talks about sunshine, but I think his inspiration is the same as my impressions. Yorkshire beaches.Summer holidays in Scarborough, Saltburn, Whitby and Bridlington.

L'Artisan Parfumeur's Cote D'Amour is a seaside scent, but it's for people with yachts and loafers. Frederic Malle's Dans tes Bras reminds me of the end of a long long day at the beach. Sel Marin is the scent of the seaside first thing in the morning, for people with picnics, windbreakers and plastic buckets and spades. I love it.