Mare Pacifico Linari 2014

It must be hard not to find this fragrance beautiful. Silvery gray and finely woven from the start, the scent reaches the nose. A fresh, slightly sour top note tingles behind it - it truly is like spray on a wave and very elegantly crafted.
In the most famous song about the sea (Charles Trenet, "La Mer") it says:

The sea
You can see it dancing along bright bays
Shining silver

The fresh-sour aspect gains a bit more intensity. A fragrance that does not reveal its maximum freshness right from the beginning. A sea wave with a frothy crown that breaks apart at the beach. Essentially, however, the "development" ends there. Nevertheless, the scent does not linger in a boring, more or less clean-fresh musk note, but through a light-dry base, which I perceive as slightly woody, the fragrance maintains a green-gray, silken elegance. In the background, the sea continues to roar steadily, without ever becoming simply "citrusy." Rather, it is the seaweed, like in "L'Eau d'Issey," and a hint of flowers. This silky-cool aspect remains throughout, but the fragrance truly shows its strength in the first half hour.
Linari seems to lack no confidence, as the titles of their fragrances reveal, "Hellfire," "Holy Water," "Heaven's Gate," and now the entire Pacific... It seems there is no room for anything smaller. But as monstrous and monumental as the name suggests, this fragrance is not for me. It is beautiful. I would wear it anytime, except in the middle of winter, knowing that it radiates a cool, light elegance, that "fresh" has been interpreted here in a noble way; a freshness that truly should please anyone. I would definitely use it, but I don't know if I would need to have it, unless I succumb to the design of the bottle.
The scent lightens a bit towards the end, shifting from light gray to bluish. But it neither knocks the wearer nor the surroundings off their feet, which the Pacific Ocean can certainly do...
My rating fluctuates like the sea, somewhere between 70 and 80, but because it comes across as so elegant, I’ll give it 80%.

"And I will sing tonight, in honor of the sea."