Megara

This is unexpected. I have never been the biggest fan of fresh scents, I have always preferred “darker and heavier” scents - but this is now my go to everyday bottle. The opening is very synthetic, but just wait for it to do its thing. I made the mistake of spraying it a few times on my shirt, which I then wore to work - my colleagues mentioned they could smell me across the room (I wanted to change my shirt immediately). This is not complex, at all, very linear. But what it lacks in complexity, it makes up for in pure performance and longevity. At this price point, this is a must-have.

Another Alhambra summer masterpiece. Just goes to show you what kind of BS maceration is. Straight out of the box this filled my living room and kitchen with 1 spray. Tone down the 'weirdness' factor of Megamare and you get this. Hard to explain but you can see the what the perfumer was trying to capture — the essence of the deep sea, albeit with a slight hint of nail polish remover (acetone). Nonetheless, it leans masculine and is wearable, perfect for even the hottest summers. 2 sparys each side of the neck and you're good for the day, and maybe the next.

A near-perfect molecular clone of Orto Parisi's Megamare. It captures the brutal, abstract marine fantasy with stunning accuracy. The opening is a bergamotto immediately salted and dried by mineral Norlimbanol. The heart is a powerful blend of oceanic geosmin and white musk, given immense body and legendary longevity by a massive dose of Ambroxan. Verdict: The same hypnotic, vast ocean storm in a bottle, but with even more impressive performance and an unbeatable price. For those who want to wear the force of the sea.

I got this one in today, so I'll update later on longevity and sillage. But the initial impression is great! The opening is strange,..not terrible, but definitely a bit off-putting. About 30 minutes later that bad stuff is gone, and all that's left is a a beautifull fragrance that reminds me of a salt-water swimmingpool. Great for Summer and Spring, But I'd also wear it indoors in the cold seasons. Really good stuff. In some ways it reminds me of Kenzo Homme EDP, which is one of my favorites.

i got this one before lattafa atlas came out. this is a great fresh aquatic scent. its longevity and projection is probably the best in all of maison alhambra lineup. its a unique freshie, not smelling like your typical fresh scent. its hard to explain what this is but it reminds me of going to a rocky shore in a sunny afternoon where water splashes on the rocks and the micro droplets of water fly in the air to reach your nose. fantastic addition to anyones collection

@TwoRowRouDee I have both. I prefer Megara, only because it seems to last longer and project more. They're almost identical on my skin and clothes. I love them both, personally. I'm macerating my Atlas to see if the projection and longetivity improve. Long story short, you can't go wrong with either one if you enjoy this scent profile. Atlas has better packaging/presentation if that matters. Personally, they're 2 of my favorite fragrances.

honestly i got it because the reviews strong, salty etc... Strong idk maybe just got it first spray mehh. Scent i really like but its not what i imagined it is some oceanic,sea type of smell but missing that saltiness it is there somewhere but not strong. Overall i like it deff something i would only wear at the summer vacation close to the sea in the night out. Well see after few days/weeks mby something improves so i change my review.

Warning⚠️ This stuff is so overpowered Projection is nuclear and can be smelled from 5-8 meters away! I tested the longevity on my skin and i got a solid 15+ hours But the shocking thing is it lasted over 2 months on my clothes!! I swear every time i open my closet and grab that on t-shirt that I sprayed it on it, i can smell it clearly!!! 1000% recommend if anyone is not sure to buy it or not

Actually smells very unique, in a good way. opening is a little seaweedy and dried down it is very pleasant. I have never tried megamare and that one has more mixed reviews, seems riskier. This bottle is an actual nuclear, the whole room smelled me and last after a shower, after 2 showers it still has a hint on my skin. Insane bottle for an insane value, will reorder.

My most complemented summer aldehyde and water like perfume. Nothing to do with Megamare. I own both. This one is clean, easy, sea scent. My bad after few days I get nose blind when everybody else can smell me from miles away. Can be a blind buy. Perfect for summer vacations.

Megara an aquatic version of Orto Parisi Megamare which is a deep unique masculine marine scent. Loud projection for the first 3 hours then it dials back after wards with a lovely scent bubble 🫧 Gives a full day wear...longevity is a 10/10 I give it an over all 9/10👌🏼

I just register to add this review. I literally do 2 shots and get to office. Than one after another person come to a room and said that whole office is covered with some masculine parfume. I literally need to change my cloths to make spacer for a work xD

good price for value and very very good performance and sillage, smells like you're on the sea and the breeze carrying algae smell and the salty air with a metallic fishy smell but in a very good way, the scent feels like something so deep in it

One word Nuclear Projection...warning count your sprays @TripleBee ....This is my third bottle as my previous two bottles were grabbed or you can say snatched by my fellow mates, as people loves this fragrance on you, Give it another try

This stuff is fantastic. Has a super funky ocean smell. Reminds me of being at the beach in Boston with all the funky ocean smells. Reminds me of French riviera but funkier. Probably the best performing maison alhambra out there. 9/10.

@SourPickle69420 What do you mean ? I'm not supporting anyone particularly... I don't care of dupes ! If I like something I buy it ! It could be Original, twist, dupe, clone, analog or whatever you call it, but I don't grade them ;)

This is a wearable inspired version of Megamare. From an intensity standpoint: Megamare tops, with Atlas as second and this one is third. However, if you like this profile, very wearable and well done. Shukran Habibi

Love this but its not as deep as megamare. Performance is good but not beast mode. Original has stronger marine feeling but this one does the job too 👍 pressurized atomizer, nice bottle and nice box

This fragrance has gotten me the most compliments I've ever received from any fragrance I've ever had. Great performance and very unique. Nobody smells like this.

Es un gemelo muy parecido pero ligeramente mas salado y ligero que megamare. Es bueno si te gusta este ADN

Unique. High longevity for a summer perfume.

Megara Maison Alhambra is a very good take on Orto Parisi Megamare. Marine salty aquatic with beast mode performance. While there are a few other inspirations of Megamare even from the same brand house as Megara. I don't believe they are redundant with each other especially if you love salty aquatics. Instead of that seaweed note, Megara uses algae that blends very well with the bergamot, and lemon that comes across a tad bit sweet and definitely brighter than the OG as well as Lattafa Atlas. This is another monster performer. I easily got 13-14 hours on skin. Now with this DNA, it is very easy to go nose blind to the performance and projection but trust me it's there. Spray this on clothes and you could wash this out for days. This could be a mass appealing but this DNA not very popular. If you happen to give this one a smell you might find yourself getting a backup. Enjoy

I wasn't too sure what to expect with this one, but it's an interesting one. The opening is crazy but it mellows out into an oceanic banger. Never sniffed anything quite like this before, and I wonder if I could pull it off myself. I grew up with the beach and haven't seen the ocean in years.. this doesn't smell exactly like the ocean, but it is definitely reminiscent. I'll wear it out next summer to see what people say. This is probably gonna be one of the bottles in my collection that isn't in my regular rotation, but that I still consider an excellent fragrance. Not crafted for mass appeal, but made for people who will get it. And if you get it .... get it.

Honestly, worse then I thought, but in a good way. It's fresher then I expected, ofcourse the seaweed smell is there, but i only can explain it in 1 phrase : "Rotting seaweed salad". After maybe 30 minutes all the intresting marine smell fades away, but it leaves a nice pleasent fresh and slightly marine smell. Longevity of this fragrance might be a little bit shorter on my skin, I can still smell it after 8 hours, but it's so silent that you need to lean in very close to smell it.

This stuff is intoxicating, though you probably won’t pull many compliments with it. 85 percent close to Megamare, just not quite as dirty/complex. Less jasmine than Lattafa Atlas in the dry-down, and perhaps a touch more ambroxan. Performance is insane. You’ll choke people out with two sprays.

I guess its a nice fragrance when you're outdoors, feels way too intense to wear in a confined space. Theres an "ink" like smell to it, its odd but also kinda pleasant. Very mineralic too. Insane performance for sure, i can smell it from almost 8 feet away. Do not blind buy, try a sample.

This smells almost identical to Lattafa’s Atlas—about 90% the same—just a bit less invasive. However, instead of the nausea Atlas caused, this one triggered a headache for me, mainly because it carries a bit more sweetness compared to Atlas, which has almost none.

I love the smell. The thing is I can't tell if I have a bad batch or if i just go noseblind in the first 15 minutes. I can barely feel the scent after an hour

Very nice and uinque oceanic scent! Be careful with the sprays though, this stuff has the projection of a nuclear bomb lol

Haven't smelled the original but this is a fresh fragrance with some dirt in it. Like it for summer.

I haven't smelled Megamare yet. Regarding Megara, it's definitely quite strong, kind of unisex, and reeks of some kind of imaginary sea sweetness that's both hypnotizing and slightly sickening at the same time. I couldn't really say I like this fragrance a lot but something about it has me coming back for more. Edit : I finally smelled Megamare and Megara is quite close at nailing the original which remains stronger both in terms of projection and longevity. The og also felt a notch saltier to my nose especially in the late dry down, which I personally liked better and the fragrance's very particular sweetness just smells more pleasant on Megamare in my opinion. But for its price, Megara can pride itself to being a very decent dupe of the "sea monster". As for me I'll eventually pull the plug on the real one, something about it definitely got me under its spell.

Hmm..... I dropped my bottle of this today, it smashed all over the bathroom floor. And you know what? I wasn't sad. I'd been trying to like it - and I love gross/weird/esoteric scents - but there was something about this that I couldn't get with. It had a very brick-wall underlying scent that wouldn't evolve on the skin. I'm a huge fan of ELDO's Secretions Magnifiques, and other reviews made me think it would be a slightly more mainstream/safe version of that, and it sort of is... but on the skin I would always regret spraying it.

Had this cologne, but returned it because I'd go nose blind immediately to it. It really didn't perform on my skin. When I'd spray it in the air I was able to smell it, but on my skin it didn't have a Sillage or Projection whatsoever. I had to put my wrist up to my nose to be able to smell it. Smells great, but couldn't enjoy it. Hopefully that's not the case with any of you as well.

Huge disappointment, no similarity with Megamare in the most important nuances. Megamare is amazing. This one is just a confusing something.

You know how some people say cilantro tastes like soap? Well to me ambroxan is the worst smell in the entire world. Maybe it's just cheap ambroxan I really don't know but it's perplexing. I cannot fathom anyone thinking this fragrance smells good, but to some people I guess ambroxan is pleasant?? I could smell the ambroxan through the cap before even spraying it. With all the Bacarrat clones (maybe original too) and other ambroxan frags out there I get a whiff of this horrible stench daily. It is screeching, nauseating, headache-inducing, absolutely an assault on the senses. I can't even begin to tell you what else this garbage smells like. I sprayed it on paper and 30 seconds later I threw that paper in the OUTSIDE trashcan.

Anyone who likes scents like these cannot be trusted with anything in any domain of life. Anyone using pretty words to describe this is being pretentious—the types who look at a literal splatter of paint and from it, infer the answers to the mysteries of the universe. Absolutely atrocious and I had to stifle my gag reflex the whole time. This isn't a cologne, its bottled misanthropy. Blegh. 🚫Avoid at all cost

Smells like some kind of a chemical weapon, nauseating and headache inducing. You might start glowing with radiation after putting this sh*t on your skin, I warned you.

Late 24 - early 25 batches have good performance not super like previous batches.

لا اعلم ان كنت استلمت عبوة تالفة ام ماذا، ولكن لم استطع تحمل هذا العطر وقمت بارجاعه الروائح صناعية بشكل طاغي، ونعم اعلم ان ميسون الحمراء يحتاج تخمير ولكن هذا ليس بعيد بنسبة ٢٠٪ او ٣٠٪ عن الرائحة المرغوبة بل بنسبة ٨٥٪. الروائح الطاغية هي روائح جزيء الكولون (البحري) والهيديون (وردي اخضر). رائحه صناعية بهته، هذه الروائح بالعادة تضاف لروائح فاكهية او زهرية لتحسين صفاتها ولكن لاتستخدم لوحدها. ولكن الامر الاهم ان جودة المواد سيئة سببت لي صعوبة بالتنفس قد اكون استلمت عبوة فاسدة، وقد يكون هو هكذا تقيمي ٠/١٠ - I do not know if I received a damaged bottle or what, but I could not tolerate this perfume and I returned it.The synthetic smell is overwhelming, and yes, I know that Maison Alhambra perfumes need time to mature, but this one is not 20% or 30% away from the desired scent, it is 85% off. The dominant smells are the calone molecule, which is aquatic, and hedione, which is green floral. It is a synthetic smell. These molecules are usually added to fruity or floral scents to enhance them, but not used alone. The more important point is that the quality of the materials is poor, and it made it hard for me to breathe. I may have received a spoiled bottle, or maybe this is how it is. 0/10

While this might be controversial as a megamare clone (this is frankly a bit more generally wearable, less artistic, obviously less natural), i think its a pretty good example of a well made artificial ambergris. To me its mostly just that straight ambergris accord so its not complex but for the price i paid i dig it, especially for layering. I dont know if its still really cheap anymore but if it is and you like my description, check it out. In my opinion its not really animalic, if anything then only the littlest tiniest bit adding to the ambergris thing. It seems to stick around a long time, but i dont get the monster sillage people are claiming. Maybe im going noseblind to the ambroxan who knows... P.s. little layering tip... ive had success layering this with my vintage erolfa and my new G.I.T. If you have something with an "ambergris" accord, youd do better layering with this as opposed to molecule 02 for example or straight ambroxan. Plus its half the price of molecule 02 yet more complex and noticable

I know a lot of people find Orto Parisi's megamare weird, especially the opening but it has become my favourite summer frag. Bought this to see how close it is to Megamare and if it is, then I'd use it to supplement my 50ml bottle. I received it today and I wasn't disappointed. The opening is a little weirder than even Megamare's but within minutes, the scent became very similar. Projection is crazy too....however, the longetivity is not as hard as Megamare's...at least for now. I'll let it sit and mature for a couple of weeks/months and then compare the performance again. This is a very good clone of Megamare... there are few differences but overall, it is very close.

Mannnn, this one is pure elegance in a bottle. It opens with creamy florals and soft woods, creating a rich, feminine scent that feels luxurious and long-lasting. The blend is smooth, captivating, and smells far more expensive than its price. A perfect everyday signature - elegant, warm, and impossible not to love!

Never smelled the original, no idea how close it is. Now about this one, it smells nice, it's fresh but weird fresh, I didn't get any saltines, seaweed or whatever. Performed like a mofo, sillage and longevity were off the charts, aaand I gave it away cause it made my wife sick.

de seguro habrán personas con el olfato mas fino y entrenado que el mío , no soy experto pero si puedo recomendar jamás comprar a ciegas este perfume. En lo que respecta a la fragancia: -No tolere su aroma a algas huele muy muy rancio para mi

Compared to the OG is too sweet and lacks the saltiness deep soul. Performance is mediocre, it lasts a couple of hours and sillage is moderate at best. I don't know where do people think this is a beast performance perfume.

Megamare magic trick ! Spray 10 times from new bottle of Megara and leave it in fridge and darkness for 3 weeks. Then, take out your new bottle of Megamare :) best summer beach scent !

Is this safe blind buy ? i'm looking for a super long Lasting daily fregrances that is super versatile and elegant plus signature scent worthy . Fell free to share opinions!!

Can agree with below comment, mine arrived today and definitely not beast mode like users claimed before, will let it age and come back in a few months.

This is a super polarizing fragrance. In the air its alluring people around you won't stop sniffing trying to find this beautiful scent.

can anyone who has smelled a chaos in the ocean compare it to this? how similar are they and in terms of performance