Megamare Orto Parisi 2019

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7.4 / 10 1552 Ratings

A perfume by Orto Parisi for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is aquatic-fresh. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Aquatic

Fresh

Spicy

Synthetic

Woody

Perfumer

Alessandro Gualtieri

Ratings

Scent

7.41552 Ratings

Longevity

9.51486 Ratings

Sillage

9.31477 Ratings

Bottle

8.11389 Ratings

Value for money

7.51152 Ratings

Submitted by JoHannes, last update on 04/26/2025.

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Reviews

113 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/09/2023

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

Tiagofml
24 Reviews

Tiagofml

Helpful Review 5

Love/Hate Relationship

This is such an intriguing scent for me.

Is it oceanic? Well yes.
Is it fresh? Kinda
Is it a light and easy-breezy wear for the super hot days? Not quite.

I always say this: Imagine if Nasomatto Black Afgano was inspired by the ocean

Ocean inspired for sure, fresh in the opening certainly. But then I get almost a rich coffee/boozy/chocolaty feeling from it, just like Black Afgano.

I know, sounds weird. But I can’t stop smelling it! Being it because I'm intrigued by the composition or it’s sheer nuclear power.

Because yeah, get this on clothes and it won’t ever come off - And this is where my "hate" for it comes.
If this was the only scent that I had, it would be a positive (Kinda), but as a collector, I want to wear more than 1 fragrance per day, more often than not. With Megamare, this is just NOT possible.
I usually put on 1 spray of this on the back of my neck and it lasts easily through at least 2 showers on me. Oh and it sticks to everything it touches (and good luck getting it out of there).

That said, hating the excess of performance, I do like it as a Mad piece of perfumery. It intrigues me and has me coming back to it over and over again - because yeah, on me this isn't linear at all.

Polarising but I love it!

01/31/2025

9
Pricing 9
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 8
Scent

Moshikoko
80 Reviews

Moshikoko

Helpful Review 5

This isn't Megamare, it's a Monster

A powerful aquatic perfume that leaves no doubt that you are here.

I warn you, have mercy on your surroundings and do not spray more than one squeeze.
Half a squeeze behind each ear is completely enough.
More than that, it is an environmental attack.

In terms of smell - you will either like it or not, so I do not recommend buying it blindly.

By the way, Boadicea has the perfume: Aqua Sapphire which is really similar to it and even better in terms of its depths, but I do not think that a perfume in this style should be paid more than the price of Megamare.

Overall: 8/10.

03/26/2024

Lanatra
18 Reviews

Lanatra

Helpful Review 4

From the sea to Guernica

I cannot, under any circumstances, get myself to rate this exceptional perfume, for a few good reasons.

First: It is a magnificent work of art, simply stunning. Now, you could say the same about many pieces of art: They are stunning, fascinating; they are enriching your life, and they are an experience you would not want to be without. And yet, at the same time, they can be deeply disturbing. Orto Parisi's Megamare is one of those. To wear it is in some aspects like having Picasso's _Guernica_ on the wall at home: It is a famous, fantastic work of art but it is also highly likely that it would be far too big, intrusive and disturbing at home. How do you rate that?

Second, it is a fantastic scent that I do love, and as a purely olfactory experience it is quite masculine and quite pleasant at the same time. Many reviews state that it has some challenging notes, but I found those to be very exaggerated. While it contains indeed some uncommon facets, it is strange, 18 years since Terre d'Hermès, to claim it is a revolutionary scent. At first, I could not help myself thinking that the people who hate it the most, don't eat fish and/or cannot swim either, since my first hours of wear were wonderful. I already knew that overspraying would be a bad idea through reading other reviews. But then, after 24 hours, some of the aromachemicals starts to morph into something rather petrochemical, or paint solvent. This is something to which people react differently, but where the mentioned Terre d'Hermès has a weak, lingering solvent smell for me that is there all the time, Megamare offers a backlash tsunami of it on day 2. Yes: On day 2. After washing my hands five times, and a shower, it is still there.

So alas, it is simply not wearable for me. I put on an entirely different perfume today that I cannot smell at all. In the morning hours, Megamare was still a linear scent, but now at 14:00 there are just more and more solvents. It is not so strong that it is nauseating, but nevertheless it occupies my senses too much. Like a lover who simply won't give you space.

Do I recommend it? Yes, but under certain conditions:
- You need to be the signature scent kind of guy, because it takes two days before anything else is possible to wear.
- You need to try it on first to check it with your specific skin chemistry
- You cannot be sensitive towards the fumes from oil painting in the dry down. Yes, if you dislike being in a room that was recently painted with oil based paint, you will get the same whiffs from Megamare on day 2.
- You cannot have a special someone in your life who is sensitive towards it either. I would be able to live with it if you were a colleague in the same meeting room or office, but not in bed, if you understand.

09/13/2024

7
Pricing 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Smirky
390 Reviews

Smirky

Helpful Review 5

Joint review of Megamare, Chaos & Atlas

This is a joint review of Megamare, Chaos and Atlas, which I reviewed over three consecutive days. I decided to review them together because they are all supposed to be similar aquatics with very good performance. I also compared them directly. On the third day, while wearing Atlas, I did a refresh spray of Atlas in the afternoon and then sprayed Megamare and Chaos on opposite arms.

Megamare struck me as a very unique marine/aquatic. It's round, full and dark but not really heavy. Received a definite impression of the ocean - strong musky marine accords - like what being far out on the ocean or deep under the water might smell like. As it evolves, a woody accord emerges which blends very nicely with the musky marine scent. Also want to stress its uniqueness - never smelled anything quite like it.

Where Megamare was round and dark, Chaos comes across as sharper, bright and fresher. Initial citrus seemed to dominate with the marine accord underneath. As it dried down, the citrus retreated a bit and the marine/oceanic scent dominated. Chaos is very different from Megamare. When I tested D&G Light Blue Eau Intense for men, some prior reviews complained about an eggy scent, something I did not detect with Light Blue. With Chaos, however, I did detect a rather strong eggy scent - not rotten eggs or sulfur - but the smell of cooked eggs. It didn't appear right away, but after about 30 minutes and hung around for the life of the scent. Because of this, Chaos is a no go for me.

Atlas is supposed to be a dupe of Megamare. While it is a nice marine/aquatic fragrance, Atlas seemed to be about a 60% match (maybe less) to Megamare. When it dried down, it came across as having a very noticeable floral accord that Megamare does not have. I don't know if it's the iris note (didn't smell specifically like iris to me) or some other unrevealed floral notes.

Regarding projection and longevity, Megamare and Chaos are both nuclear fragrances with Megamare having an edge over Chaos. While Atlas is strong, I wouldn't describe its performance as nuclear and it wasn't anywhere near the performance of Megamare. All three fragrances are very masculine.

My overall preference is for Megamare and I have added it to my shopping list. If you test Megamare and it comes across as too heavy or dark, you may want to test Chaos. You might not detect an eggy smell as I did and its performance is almost at the same level as Megamare. While I don't have any problems with dupes and clones and like to save money as much as the next guy, when it comes to Atlas and Megamare, Megamare is clearly the superior fragrance to my nose.

04/09/2025

9
Pricing 8
Bottle 9
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Omnipotato
226 Reviews

Omnipotato

Helpful Review 3

Extreme doses of aquatic and musky synthetics

Initially, I wrote Megamare off as just another "blue" fragrance but it's got a bit more going on. On first spray, I get a dry spice (could be cumin or saffron) that actually works really well with the ozonic/aquatic stuff going on in the rest of the fragrance. There is also that sea salt/seaweed smell that everyone brings up, but the end result is actually quite pleasant - nowhere near as salty as something like Embruns d'Essaouira for example. I think this is the epitome of "niche" blue; more interesting than, say, Elysium Parfum Cologne Eau de Parfum or Percival but doesn't go off the deep end in terms of experimentation. Ambroxan, calone, ISO-E super in large doses obviously, but it almost seems like a commentary or satire on this genre -the synthetic aromachemicals are taken to the extreme.

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