Fragrantica should add a new meter on the longevity rating slider, right after eternal should be "megamare".
Longevity? Yes, this is another level. I sprayed this on a face cloth, 3 sprays and hung it in my bathroom last Friday (8 days ago, 180 hours ago), and when I walk in my bathroom I still get a whiff of it. Now mind you this is not putting my nose to the face cloth and still smelling a scent, this is 6ft from the door to the towel rack, (I measured it). I don't come closer than 2 feet to this face cloth and I get an occasional spritz of megamare. Which brings me to projection.
As far as projection goes, it acts exactly the same as the face cloth on my towel rack while you're wearing it. This does not radiate and fill up a room with a permanent inescapable scent that your constantly smelling everytime you inhale. It may be attached to the wearer or an object and filling an area with it's molecules, but you only get mild whiffs of it typically with movement. So it sits silently and reveals itself in the gusts of air passing your nose.
How does this smell? To me quite simply it's a mature slightly salty, musky, cold ocean air. There is warmth to the fragrance almost like the warmth of the ocean water acting like a blanket when you're submerged on a chilly day. But aromatically it's reminiscent of gusts of a salty cool ocean breeze.
The aquatic smell/note here is very raw, definitely synthetic, not very realistic to any real smells of the ocean but it's simplicity is very elegant and it does what it's intended to do "be marine". I definitely get a musk in this and probably ambergris or some synthetic version of it, both giving the marine note a mature fragrance vibe and adding perhaps a slightly salty sweaty vibe(not b.o.).
This wears like a perfume, it does not smell like you were near, around or in the ocean. It's not a scent projecting out an aquatic environment. It's a mature refined, relatively simple aquatic fragrance. It's classy. It has deep down a root that's present in all of the orto parisi fragrances, it's carries a particular vibe that you really need to smell to understand.
This is not a challenging scent, the only challenge to this fragrance is making a commitment to putting it on and figuring out how to get it off.
I wore this to the gym on a sweatshirt and forget it, it still smelled pretty strong of megamare after one wash, so I just dedicated it to wearing this scent.
Fortunately I don't have much of a wardrobe it's mostly hoodies for the gym and plain white tee shirts and work clothes. If you have an extensive wardrobe and like to wear fragrances on clothes like I do, and you really like this scent, perhaps start planning on buying 2 pairs of everything, one for you and one for megamare.
I've worn this multiple times now, and this is really a scent that needs multiple wears to really appreciate. It's become quite an addictive captivating fragrance. I first tried it from a 1ml dabber and really was underwhelmed, It wasn't what I was expecting from the reviews I read, I thought it would be very loud and polarizing. Although I could tell there was depth to the fragrance and really needed to spray this thing and test it out a few times so I just went ahead and ordered the 50ml bottle. I would definitely order another bottle of this if or when it runs out. It's quite unique.
Back to the face cloth on my towel rack in my bathroom, still spritzing out wafts of this aroma, 8 days now. I'll try to update this review with the time in which this continues to not quit.
Edit:
Day 10 now, this hasn't let up on the face cloth. Still catching whiffs of it in and out my bathroom.
Day 11, four times now today caught whiffs walking into my bathroom. I think sometimes it's getting stronger.
Day 14, now 2 weeks on the face cloth, I caught a whiff earlier today taking a shower.
Day 16, I thought this was gone because I didn't recall smelling it in my bathroom yesterday, but today I got a big whiff of it walking in the bathroom and then again this afternoon.
Day 20 just when I thought it was gone, nope. Megamare creeping into the shower this morning.
Day 21 (3 weeks now), got whiffs of this walking OUT of my bathroom as it travelled in the steam created from the shower.
Day 25 ok so I think this has finally thrown in the towel(no pun intended), the past couple days I haven't gotten wafts of it in my bathroom, but I can smell it if I put my nose to the face cloth.
So I think it's safe to say you could classify megamare as a bargain fragrance. If you plan on wearing the same clothes for 25 days, you won't need to reapply. :)
