Such a shame, because the notes are intriguing. I've never seen a salty perfume that wasn't supposed to evoke the beach. This opens very similarly to the Victoria’s Secret perfume Love which also mixes a dry, fresh note (cotton) with a stone fruit note (apricot). In the case of Olympea there is the addition of plum and the dry, fresh notes are salt and sand.

There is a certain sweetness, but I would not say that this is a particularly sweet scent, more of a refreshing scent, meant for warm summer days with a slight sweetness to it.

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The orange flower note that was barely noticeable in the opening is very much at work in the mid and dry down. Ripe salted plum, peppered rose petals, smooth bourbon vanilla... I think on the right woman this could be very seductive and sexy. This perfume is not strong like the original and in my opinion is just a bit too linear and boring for what I was expecting from the INTENSE version of a perfume like Olympea. I like it, its nice but I think its a slight let down. I get all three notes listed but they're VERY well blended.

I heard a lot about the original Olympéa and while I was doing my research I came across Olympéa Legend. Reading about the notes, Legend seemed to speak more to me but I decided to blind buy both just out of curiosity. I notice an open floral perfume, only exotic because of the final key element that gives a tempered esdrúxula in its composition, the salt. In my nostrils it has salt from beginning to end, but it is not any saline note, it is salt preceded by an intense breeze, of those that mess up the hair.

I will never understand my love for this fragrance because I actually find it bizarre and I even, in an objective sense, understand why others would find it off putting.