Chilling By The Pacific

Chilling By The Pacific by Dua and Mancera Lemon Line are my two favourite fragrances to wear when I play tennis or pickleball. I play 3-4 times a week so these get a lot of wear. Chilling By The Pacific definitely has a lot of Pacific Chill dna but your mileage may vary on whether it is 70, 80, 90% of it. I personally don't care. I try to judge every fragrance on its own merit and decide if I want to wear it. Chilling By The Pacific stands on its own as a great fresh fragrance that reacts well to body chemistry as it heats up. There's a little bit of mojito / gin and tonic vibe in this off my skin. I actually think it's quite comical that some people throw shade on a company like Dua that don't just create direct 'dupes' but also unique remixes of fragrances. In music, we call these people DJs who take music they didn't originally create and remix it, they sell tickets to shows, they are treated like stars and people love them. But in the fragrance world, 'DJ / remix' companies are hated on. C'mon fragrance lovers, stop hating and simply judge a fragrance like you would music. I've tried quite a few Dua fragrances, some of them I love, some of them I don't. And that's no different than Xerjoff, Dior, Creed or whatever. Chilling By The Pacific is one of my favourites from Dua. If you haven't tried it, you should.

I own 14 Dua fragrances and this is one of my favorites. It’s a dead ringer for Louis Vuitton Pacific Chill, which I’ve worn out of the department store twice, but this one is longer lasting. The best thing about this fragrance IMO is the drydown. It’s amazing. A booming white musk that is everywhere and nowhere at once. I indicated this fragrance is unisex, but I think it can lean slightly more feminine—definitely NOT overtly. In my own head I’m notorious for saying every fragrance is all-season, day and night. I think most people would say this is a daytime warm weather fragrance, but the booming base makes me want to wear it always. I fu3king crave this fragrance. My wife says I smell like candy when I wear it, but it’s not very sweet. I don’t like sweet fragrances on me. This is slightly green, slightly minty, slightly sweet, fresh—I would spray it on cereal if that was a thing. I feel like a fool every time I wear it because of the absolute monstrosity of the everywhere-nowhere base. I catch fleeting whiffs of it and I’m always like, “what is that scent?” in my head, and it’s always me. You can be like me too if you wear it. Do it.

To me, Chilling By The Pacific basically smells like a smoother, more natural alternative to Paris Hilton for Men. It at least sort of fills the same role and has a similar vibe. It is of better quality for sure, though, and is superior enough that I finally decided to buy a full bottle of it instead of just sticking with Paris Hilton for Men. By the way: This review is after letting it sit in the dark for three or four months following a few initial sprays. It definitely did get smoother, stronger, and longer-lasting after doing this.

Having both this Dua version and the LV original, this one doesn't smellas refined or high quality, but the mint is dialed back just a bit from the OG and it's all the better for it. The LV version is a bit fleeting on skin after a couple hours but this Dua version goes strong on my skin for HOURS. Seriously, I am still getting whiffs of it in the air 6-7 hours later. I experience this one as more rounded than the OG but they are 95% the same, otherwise. A wonderful option to the pricey LV version (maybe better).

I have this one and I absolutely love it. It's a better version than Pacific Chill and much more worth the money. It lasts on me (skin & clothes) about 8-10hrs. Vibes are minty, fresh, tropical, aromatic, aquatic, fruity, uplifting, energetic, and radiant. Kind of has a mojito/margarita vibe to it. The atomizer is absolutely stunning, it's a pressurized atomizer. I say it's about 90-95% close to Pacific Chill, which I've worn twice here in California and in NYC.