Maritima

What Maritima smells like

Fraterworks describes Maritima as an intense burst of cold sea spray and metallic ocean air, a powerful marine pyridine capturing the minerality of oyster shells and wet rocks at low tide, which turns abstract aquatic accords into photorealistic seascapes and works with aldehydes and rose oxide for metallic-marine effects. IFF's own description, as The Good Scents Company quotes it, is a strong, clean, wet note with a fresh-air character suggesting ocean breezes; that database's evaluation of an IFF sample lists fresh outdoor, watery, buttery, clean, wet, costus and metallic.

Leading note

Sea spray

Clear facets

Metallic

Supporting facets

Mineral

Character

Cold, powerful

• marine
• sea spray
• metallic
• mineral
• oyster

What makes Maritima distinctive

Cold sea spray and wet rock in a marine pyridine, turning an abstract aquatic accord photorealistic.

How Maritima is used

Used in traces for wet texture in florals and greens, and at higher levels for dominant marine effects.

Typical role: modifier (used in small amounts to change the character of a blend).

How Maritima differs from similar materials

Oceanol

Oceanol is briny seaweed over a powdery, mossy texture; Maritima is colder and more metallic, sea spray and wet rock.

Each difference compares the published descriptions of the two materials. Smell varies with grade, supplier and dilution; compare them side by side on blotters before substituting one for another.

Formulation considerations

Very powerful; Fraterworks suggests starting around 0.1% in a formula.

Identity and classification

Type

Aroma chemical

Origin

Synthetic

Odour family

Aquatic / Metallic

Note position

Top to heart note

Physical form at room temperature

Liquid

Also known as

Marine pyridine, 4-(4,8-Dimethylnona-3,7-dienyl)pyridine

CAS number

38462-23-6

Molecular formula

C16H23N

Molecular weight

229.36 g/mol

IUPAC name

4-(4,8-dimethylnona-3,7-dienyl)pyridine

The CAS number, formula and molecular weight are taken from PubChem compound 162309, whose own record lists this CAS number; checked 25 October 2026.

Safety and compliance

Hazard classification of the neat substance, as PubChem summarises it, read 26 October 2026. Companies notifying the ECHA C&L Inventory classify it (1,407 reports): H317 may cause an allergic skin reaction (91.4% of reports); H319 causes serious eye irritation (91.4% of reports). 121 of the reports find it does not meet the hazard criteria. A skin sensitiser classification concerns handling the neat material and the dose in a finished product; the IFRA Standards, where they apply, set the limits. Unless it is harmonised, this is the notifiers' own classification, not a binding one.

This page is general information, not a safety assessment or a specification. Confirm identity, composition, IFRA status and allergen content from your supplier's documents for the lot you hold.

Materials it works with

• Calone

  Aroma chemical · Aquatic / Metallic — marine, watermelon, ozonic, watery

• Dimethyl Sulfide

  Aroma chemical · Green — cabbage, radish, sulphurous

• Rose Oxide

  Aroma chemical · Floral / Metallic — metallic, green, geranium, rosy

Used in formulas and accords

Used in 29 published formulas

Maritima is an ingredient in 24 perfume formulas and 5 accords in the Formula & Accord Library.

Community formulas

• Blue Accord

  Community Formula · Accord

RUŌOD House Originals

Original compositions by RUŌOD House.

• Asphalt Peony

  RUŌOD House Creation · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Bitter Ferry

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Black Pepper Sail

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Bleached Driftwood

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Brine Blossom Accord

  RUŌOD House Accord · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Flint Petal Accord

  RUŌOD House Accord · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Frangipani Ledge

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Galbanum Courtyard

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Guava Monsoon

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Harbour Rope

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Iris Weather

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Iron Rain

  RUŌOD House Creation · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Ivy Wall

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Lime Bruise

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Low Tide Library

  RUŌOD House Creation · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Neroli Compass

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Pearl Brine

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Petrichor Stone Accord

  RUŌOD House Accord · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Popcorn Sky

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Rain on Linen

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Reef Light

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Rhubarb Quarry

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Salt Lantern

  RUŌOD House Creation · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Salt Skin Accord

  RUŌOD House Accord · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Silver Amber

  RUŌOD House Creation · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Slate Chypre

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Thyme Cliff

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Ylang Rain Shelter

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Maritima 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

Further reading

• Aquatic and Marine Notes in Perfumery

  The materials behind aquatic, marine and ozonic perfumes — Calone, watery aldehydes, dihydromyrcenol — and how to build and dose an aquatic accord.

Questions about Maritima

Sources

• PubChem — compound 162309, checked 25 October 2026.
• PubChem — GHS classification (the ECHA C&L Inventory notifications and any harmonised EU entry), read 26 October 2026.
• Fraterworks — Maritima — distributor's description.
• PubChem — 4-(4,8-dimethylnona-3,7-dienyl)pyridine (CID 162309) — odour database.
• The Good Scents Company — marine pyridine (IFF Maritima) — odour database.
• Olfactory profile: the RUŌOD Lab team's synthesis of the published descriptions above, reviewed 26 October 2026. Evidence: more than one published description. Classification and the short description: revision 1. Descriptions of odour are judgement, not measurement.