TheJoker

It was a long time ago, more than 20 years ago, when I was still living with my parents. I bought tennis socks on eBay, I think in a box of 200. Well, with 200 pairs of socks, there was no need to wash them for a long time. So within several months, a mountain of socks had built up in front of my bed. One morning I got up and thought "it smells really funny in here" - so funny that it couldn't just be socks. So I started digging in the mountain and then realized that my cat had placed a really fat mouse there. It was already really sticky and gummy, the urge to vomit followed as if at the push of a button.
Eau de Space, how authentic it is, only very few people can judge. I was puzzled at first, somehow the smell seemed familiar, but I could only partially understand the association with burnt rubber. Then it clicked, that's what a dead mouse smells like. A mouse that has drowned in milk and has been rotting there for a week might be even more fitting.

15 minutes ago I decided to flush the test strip down the toilet (I've never done that before), and before I did I took a deep breath. I actually had to gag, and even before that I was getting more and more sick from the stuff. It's actually the worst I've smelled so far, and I've also tested "Sécrétions Magnifiques | Etat Libre d'Orange" extensively. I find it absolutely harmless in comparison and generally not nearly as bad as is claimed - actually not bad at all, just very special and unusable.

So, hands off, Eau de Space is indeed unwearable, I received a sample from dear @Scentologyst, and I will keep it purely as a joke.

Yes, "Megamare | Orto Parisi" is the strongest perfume I have come across so far, both in terms of sillage and also durability. Through the search for such a monster, I landed with him. Aquatic, or maritime or even "oceanic" it should also be - although not in the typical designer way, but aquatic just. I love the Aqva range from Bvlgari, so I thought I'd get something along those lines, only in a more extreme form. Extreme it definitely is - after all, there are some base notes that last for weeks on textiles or paper. Megamare, however, is even smellable on the skin for several days, whether you shower or not. I don't even want to talk about the pillow, again and again a small pinch drove into my nose. With the projection it looks no different, once sprayed on the arm the stuff does not let you go, I could even smell nen test strip, which was two meters away on the coffee table. This is alone from a technical point of view highly impressive, in practice but also me somehow too much, and although I actually like these "Beasmode" things.

Of course, I have read a lot about the fragrance, and so the expectations were high. Now these expectations were actually exceeded, but not necessarily in a positive sense. H/S and intensity are really out of this world. However, the pleasantness of this fragrance does not quite fulfill what I wanted. "Sauvage (Eau de Toilette) | Dior" in the Extreme Edition was said by some sites. Unprejudiced, I actually smell Maggi in Megamare - immediately after spraying it on, it is still fresh, but this freshness settles very quickly and from then on the scent remains absolutely the same. Would the scent of the opening so linear pull through, then I fänds horny, but in the actual course I lack this freshness. Yes, where I have read so much, I can already understand this sea theme, and also understand - if you pull up a completely rusted ship from the depths, then it will probably smell so in the way. I've read so much about it that maybe I can already nicth be biased about these associations. So I visited my father with a sprayer on my arm. That was the first day of testing, when I didn't want to wear it "properly" yet, lest I become smell-blind. My father liked it, but he couldn't understand the sea story. The next evening I met with nem friend for a beer - three sprays I had applied. "You smell like the carpet shelf in the Bauhaus" it said from his side - he fands not cool, but even disgusting. A few days ago ne friend at the test strip smell let. The fands not disgusting, but also not horny. But she is actually on everything "ambroxanige", which I have so on offer. And that brings us to the sobering realization. It was said that the scent would be full to the brim with ambrocenide, which in turn is supposed to be similar to ambroxan, only stronger. But that's exactly what doesn't seem to work so well. That gentle, slightly woody is just missing. That beguiling scent that is pungent to some, but just incredibly appealing to many. It's missing here, some control is turned up too far. I actually smell Maggi, with a touch of fresh. Oddly enough, not so much in ne Umami way, because the water does not run together in my mouth. Also not particularly warm, but rather cool-salty, with minimal algae hints, and a rusty-metallic note.

This fragrance has me in ne very funny way under its spell. So I can not help but smell it again and again. If I wear it on the arm wanders even at night again and again to my nose. With the test strip the same, I have to sniff it again and again, as well as the bottle. But as much as he draws me into his spell, so little I can imagine to actually wear. I did, but there was only one person involved. I think I have to approach there carefully and actually test him first with a spray on the collar. And that's in all seasons. Many praise him as a high summer fragrance, I can not judge so quickly. I suppose I will still revise this review, even two weeks have not been enough for me to understand this Megamare so right.

The perfume is for me a true masterpiece, as far as the artistic aspect is concerned, but it will definitely not please everyone, I think the "Aneckpotential" is even enormously high. If one has this monster, however, then it has one, and one is caught with strange feelings.

The bottle is beautiful: the mother of pearl in the cap, the metal eaten by the sea jener - in addition, the bottle just super, the color of the fragrance could also not be more appropriate.

Well, now I stood there, and did not really know what to do with "Megamare | Orto Parisi". Then I had the idea: I exaggerate times right and mix the stuff with "Ombre Nomade | Louis Vuitton" . 50:50 Blend in the 2 ml atomizer shaken (not stirred) and sprayed on the arm. Believe it not, I like the result incredibly well, and the exaggerated "sharpness" of the two fragrances has merged into something gentle, which acts on me much rounder than the two source materials. I can only recommend, try it out.

Optimal for the office, somewhere between "Sauvage (Eau de Toilette) | Dior" and "Cool Water (Eau de Toilette) | Davidoff". Not as intrusive as Sauvage, but a little more restrained, but a little fresher direction Cool Water, from the performance but clearly better than this. A super fresh-from-the-shower fragrance that will not tarnish, but radiates pure grooming. Definitely goes all year round, but I find him very masculine and do not see the at all on women.
"Sedley | Parfums de Marly" I do not know, but for nen "shower gel fragrance" I would not pay PdM prices, from therefore this one is fully sufficient.
One of the fragrance even better, or for me the best alternative in the field, would be "Versace pour Homme (Eau de Toilette) | Versace", but that is unfortunately grottig what durability and rather for "I want times quickly smell good" suitable.

The flacon is somewhere between cool and embarrassing, I can not really decide yet. But I already know that he is too big for me, and that annoys me when the bottle takes up too much space. The sprayer is ok, but the lid sits so tight that I have torn off the second time opening the complete collar from the bottle with, which is stuck on top. So, with one hand fix the neck over index and middle finger, and with the other tear off the lid - yes, tearing, pulling I think is an understatement here. I think I hau oil on it or go times with the file ran :-)

To the opening smoky, woody, joins with time a gentle, subtly sweet, vanilla note. Overall, the result is an incredibly smooth picture, a fragrance can hardly be more rounded for me. So I imagine a "warming" companion for cold times, you want to snuggle up to. It goes something in the direction of a "Halston Man Amber | Halston", but is softer and seems to me even more balanced. A fragrance with which one will nowhere anecken.

The similarity to "Midnight Oud (Eau de Parfum) | Ard Al Zaafaran / ارض الزعفران التجارية" I can not understand at all, by the way, for me there is not even a hint of parallels.

The bottle is great and the sprayer as with most Lattafas good. However, I would like to particularly emphasize the packaging here. I have so far really every packaging, with the exception of the can of "Le Mâle Eau Fraîche Popeye Edition | Jean Paul Gaultier", thrown away. I'm going to keep the one from Qaa'ed, though. Either Lattafa manages to give faux leather a perfectly authentic leather scent, or Qaa'ed actually comes in a tin covered with real, very fine leather. I actually don't think it's great when an animal product is used unnecessarily, but think it's worth mentioning because I haven't seen it done that way before.

Long has it lasted, now I had the opportunity to test this alleged masterpiece. I can only speak of luck that I did not buy it blindly, because I can not do anything with the fragrance.
My grandpa was a carpenter, he had his workshop in the basement of the house where my parents and grandparents lived. It was over 35 years ago, but I can still remember the smell, and it was very similar to "Oud Wood (Eau de Parfum) | Tom Ford". In the village where I grew up, there was also a sawmill. It's still there, and every now and then when I walk past it today, I hear a similar scent. I like it in that situation, too, just as when I walk through the lumber department at the Bauhaus. Now, however, I have the wood on my arm and can do with it so nothing. I just don't want to smell like that, and honestly can't understand why anyone else would want to smell that on themselves, or emit that scent. I always thought I would be into wood scents, but actually I probably like smoke and burnt wood. I myself have the "Acqua di Parisis Essenza Intensa - Black Oud | Reyane Tradition" , which is very similar to the "Oud Wood (Eau de Parfum) | Tom Ford", and I can't do anything with that either. They both have this woody note that I just don't see on people. This note has something slightly raspberry for me, but not in a good way. Since I've never smelled real oud, I'm now wondering if I even like it. "Ombre Nomade | Louis Vuitton" and "Ameer Al Oudh Intense Oud | Lattafa / لطافة" I find great, but smell then now the after oud, or do the two I so not at all like?

Does oud suit me or does it not, I'm really at a loss right now. I know only that I would like to smell in no case after "Oud Wood (Eau de Parfum) | Tom Ford", and someone else would go to me with it probably also on the nerves. This shows me once again how different the tastes are so, the part is currently on the second place of unisex fragrances, one place ahead of the grandiose "Herod | Parfums de Marly". The two next to each other acts on me absolutely blasphemous, as if you compare nen rancid Passat from the 90s with nem Porsche.