Megamare

Scent Profile

Top notes: Sea Salt, Seaweed, Bergamot

Heart notes: Ambergris, Algae, Iris

Base notes: Musk, Ambergris, Cedarwood, Vetiver

Why We Carry This

Gualtieri built Orto Parisi to challenge what fragrance could reference. Megamare takes the marine category and removes the safety net: no synthetic sea-breeze accord, no aldehydic cleanliness. What remains is one of the most accurate olfactory documents of the sea as a physical environment. For clients ready for Orto Parisi, this is the right introduction.

Character

Accords: Aquatic, Salty, Musk, Earthy, Woody, Fresh

Perfumer: Alessandro Gualtieri

Launched: 2014

Megamare, the Great Sea, opens with a seaweed and sea salt combination that is biological rather than cosmetic: this is not the clean marine freshness of mainstream aquatics but something closer to the actual smell of the shoreline at low tide. Algae in the heart gives the ambergris a wet, living quality, iris softening the animalic edge slightly. The base is the composition's thesis: ambergris and musk together with vetiver, the ocean and the body meeting in a drydown that is warm, persistent, and completely unlike anything in the aquatic category.