An absorbent article is provided with an obverse surface layer 1, a reverse surface layer 2, and an absorbent layer 3, has a longitudinal direction corresponding to a direction connecting a wearer's ventral part, groin part, and dorsal part and a width direction intersecting the longitudinal direction, and has, along the longitudinal direction, a front part F, a rear part R, and a central part C that is between the front part and the rear part and includes a region corresponding to an elimination orifice. The absorbent layer 3 comprises a layered stack of a central absorbent sheet 32 that contains a cooling sensation agent and encapsulating absorbent sheets 31 disposed on the skin side and the non-skin side of the central absorbent sheet 32. The absorbent layer 3 has, in an overlap region (as seen in plan view) between the central absorbent sheet 32 and the encapsulating absorbent sheets 31, a communicating part 8 on at least the skin side.本發明之吸收性物品係具備正面層1、背面層2及吸收層3，並具有對應於將穿著者之腹側部、胯下部及背側部相連之方向之縱方向、及與該縱方向正交之寬度方向，沿著該縱方向具有前方部F、後方部R、及位於該前方部與後方部之間且包含對應於排泄點之區域之中間部C，吸收層3係將含有冷感劑之中央吸收性片材32、與配置於中央吸收性片材32之肌膚面側及非肌膚面側之外包吸收性片材31以層狀重疊而成，吸收層3於中央吸收性片材32與外包吸收性片材31之俯視重疊之區域，至少於肌膚面側具有連通部8。
