something queer going on

I seem to have bought a lot of Pierre Guillaume samples, I guess because a bunch of his scents claim to be aquatic/oceanic. Ah, well, live and learn.

They're not all like that, but he definitely has a heavy leaning in that direction.

If one of the ones you got was Limanakia, it is a good salty beach and hot stone scent which I don't recall being sweet on me.