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Extremely powerful aquatic fragrance! It has some crazy niche funk to it that works for me, however I understand exactly why some people wouldn't like it!
Powerful.
If ADG isn't strong enough for you, give this a go.
Citrus notes try their best to brighten up the maelstrom in the deep sea which is threatening to pull everything into it.
There's almost a white wine note here, and something like gasoline and metal in the distance.
Some spicy peppery notes mingle around dark salty aquatics thanks to an overdose of Ambroxan.
The calone and hedione introduce a small balance of watery sweetness and florals, but are par on par with the salty green seaweed, woody notes, and musk.
Overall, it's a dark and spicy acquatic scent with woody and smoky incense notes. The citruses do come through the depths quite often.
I really enjoy this - but I can see why others wouldn't.
Truly nothing like this! This is a very weird scent in a great way, it takes the aquatic style fragrances and adds a great niche sensibility to it. It smells like the sea, not the beach but the actual depth of the sea with all the volatility and all the ways it can create beauty but also wreckage.
Megamare from Orto Parisi is an absolute Atlantean kaiju of a fragrance. A massive, mysterious sea beast, a preternatural creature of divine power, wrapped in radioactive seaweed, rises from the unfathomable depths of an otherworldly ocean trench to surface in the middle of a typhoon. Tsunamis wreak havoc around the globe, saltwater instantaneously soaks every surface, a strange cloud of mossy musk forms, algae blooms, visibility drops to zero within seconds. At the vortex of this calamity is MEGAMARE, a gentle creature cursed with a hulking stature and an immensely briny, brackish odor that can be detected from other planets, other dimensions. It takes in the citizens of the world in a sweeping glance of its kaleidoscopic cyclopean eye and thinks “fucking hell, these humans are garbage” and disappears into the abyss never to be seen again. But its unearthly DNA changed the very essence of the seawater, and from every place a drop fell that day, a strange aromatic blossom appeared. And so history will never forget the vast flowering of judgment, the day of Megamare.
After reviewing Bergamask, my expectations were set very low when it came to Megamare - it’s safe to say they were met. Gaultieri has presented yet another molestation of the senses, in the form of a cheap smelling aquatic accord. I can love intensely aquatic fragrances with that powerful seaweed accord, Acqua di Sale by Profumum Roma is a perfect example of this. However with Megamare, it just smells cheap and lazy - it’s overwhelmingly strong, to the point it’s unenjoyable. It’s not unwearable, but there are a number of fragrances in this style which actually smell nice. Again, Gaultieri proves himself as the master of making things smell cheap and messy. I really don’t get along with his work, these are not pieces of art or ingenuity, they are messy backhanded insults to perfumery.
Hideous ambroxan-bomb opening, but after an hour or so (too long?) the magic unfolds. I get the synthetic marine smells, but also something warm, spicy and sweet. It ebbs and flows and changes with the skin temperature. Very interesting and beguiling. It bears more than a passing resemblance to Uncut Gem. My main issue with this is the monstrous performance and the noseblindness. Remember how bad it smells when you first smell it, then remember that everyone who comes across you will not be noseblind to the nuclear amount of ambroxan, then remember how fucking awful Sauvage smells when people are wearing it on public transport... I can't help feeling that's what I'm doing to people when I wear this, even though my noseblindness is conning me into liking it. Don't get it on your clothes though, it'll never come off.
