Walker

It's been six months, maybe even longer. The Hermès classics, "Bel Ami (Eau de Toilette) | Hermès" , "Rocabar (Eau de Toilette) | Hermès" , "Equipage (Eau de Toilette) | Hermès" are on the watch list
I approach the test with an open mind.
Bel Ami: Get away from me!
Rocabar: Not my world.
Equipage: ... what ... hmm ... do I like it, do I not like it?
Eerily classic, but somehow still modern.
Images of shaving foam and honey bread (which I adore) appear in my mind's eye. Fresh, spicy, very slightly sweet. As I said, classic and yet playful.
Rarely has a fragrance that I didn't think was so great at first stayed so stubbornly in my memory.
So the next test had to come. And again fascination and all kinds of thoughts, without being able to come to a conclusion.
But I couldn't let go.
Another test and another and so on.
After six months, I still can't say what it is that captivates me here.
Based purely on the olfactory profile, there are fragrances in my collection that are more to my taste.
But I can say that it now has a place in my small collection and I really enjoy the perplexity it leaves me with.
Do I like it? Do I not like it?
What the heck, because sometimes you feel drawn to something without being able to say exactly why.
Although a fragrance in itself is of course just that, a fragrance,
what it triggers in the person wearing it plays a role that should not be neglected.
This fascinates me and I very much hope to discover a few more fragrances where I am even more enthusiastic about the feeling of wearing them than the pure scent.

All these are attributes that come to mind when I spray on Aqva Marine. Where watery here is not meant in the sense of lax, but that the fragrance actually makes me think of water - although water in its pure form actually smells like nothing.

The aquatic, which I can not quite describe pulls through the complete course, but is gradually supplemented by different notes / changed.
The start is designed tangy green with a nice mixture that reminds me of citrus and grass (the one in the meadow). I get images of high meadows near the coast.
As it progresses, it becomes aromatic/mineral. The green impression drifts more and more into the turquoise-water-colored. Flowers, herbs, salt water, from the meadow I am led further towards the beach. No tropical island, no wild cliffs and no dry Mediterranean landscape. Something between all that, just a pretty strip of sand on the Atlantic.
And here the fragrance then lingers until the end, lets the thoughts of water flow comfortably on.

This cozy "beach walk" which is not too dissolute in its duration, ignites no fireworks of scenery and impressions, but conveys itself perfectly. And I want - especially as a sea enthusiast - exactly that.

For me, the topic of aquatic fragrances has been an extremely exciting, and so far, unfortunately, often sobering. The idea of water, sea, coast, just everything that has to do with it in a fragrance to pack, I find fascinating. Since I was at the peak of aquatic fragrances also still much too young for perfumes as a hobby, I have a very unencumbered relationship to the genus Aquaten.
Nevertheless, many tests have somehow disappointed me. The smell of sunscreen triggers in me the complete defensiveness (who likes to be creamed as a child ...) and many in itself and on paper very nice representatives eg "Sel Marin | Heeley" , "Coastal Cypress & Sea Fennel (Eau de Toilette) | Molton Brown" or the like have developed on my skin a strong medical smell. And then there were still wacky fragrances such as "Megamare | Orto Parisi" which I found ingenious sea, but just 2 days shelf life was then a little too crass for me...

Aqva Marine creates as I find a very nice compromise. He builds a bridge between concept fragrance and everyday perfume. Leaves out the rough side of the sea, but develops only pleasant notes on me and also does not linger as if I had applied it to me with a hot glue gun. A not too complex fragrance, but which manages to create a very concrete image.
Of what I've tested so far (at this point, thanks to @Dynax for the bottling), Bvlgari's turquoise pebble is the closest to what I want from an aquatic fragrance. For that reason - and because I like Bvlgari - I finally have an aquatic scent in my home. Yeey :)

Megamare obviously belongs to the more polarizing scents and I can understand why. In my eyes it is not a typical perfume that you apply to smell good or to radiate something subtle like "neat" "success" "attractiveness", etc.
For me, it seems more like an attempt to describe the sea in the words of a fragrance and I find this attempt very successful.

I experienced the story like this:
The first (and only) spray feels like a 20-meter wave that breaks into itself and then opens the view to the roaring sea. Somehow I have the feeling that the scent changes between two slightly different scent colours in the beginning and it feels like a wave up and down. I can't describe this smell exactly, but it comes close to a mixture of salty air and something spicy, which gives me an image of copper with verdigris
So no classic freshness in the sense of citrus notes or similar
The whole thing remains relatively long (about 4 hours) until the fragrance becomes a little "cooler", the spice becomes a little more subtle and it gives the impression that the sea is calming down a little, but the salty and cool-looking remains.
Again almost 4 hours later the scent changes slightly and the only note I'm sure to recognize (since I have the herb at home and know it from Ganymede) is the Immortelle. It blends with what else is in the fragrance to create a smell that evokes the association of salty sand on the beach, as if after a stormy and exhausting escapade through the sea, one has finally arrived at the safe beach and is left there simply exhausted but satisfied.
This way the fragrance fades and remains present for another 4-6 hours.
So in fact a very very high durability, only after more than 10 hours only close to the skin and then still perceptible. However, the silage on my skin is not quite as extreme, so the first 3-4 hours well perceptible (well over an arm's length) and then until about hour 8 about an arm's length (according to my girlfriend).

For me, this is not a fragrance for all days and not a fragrance for the office, but one for me privately. For me privately, because I love the sea and I really like this story about the sea. Maybe I have to say that I have an affinity for experimental concepts because I myself am involved in experimental music. So I am not one of those people who say "yes, who doesn't appreciate that, has no idea, blah, blah, blah..." or because a religion or something else makes it, no, I just like it. Most of it at least, if pure provocation is the goal, I think it's sh**e too. The other fragrances of Gualtieri I don't know yet and I'm not sure if he is such a provocative little bear or not, but with Megamare I had the feeling that this is meant seriously and was created to express how the sea could smell, not just to do something (à la Sécrétions Magnifiques) that "shocks"

To conclude with a musical comparison - this is the best way to express myself - Megamare is in my opinion not a pop song that wants to romantically depict the sea as a theme, but also not a heavy metal number that deals with ship accidents and the brutality of the sea. It's just an experimental attempt to depict the real sound of the sea, the waves, the roaring wind, the water hitting high rocks and the sand being washed away.
Such a concept is special and not everyone likes it and I don't think I need another such fragrance in my collection, because otherwise I like it more classic (so smell good in the office etc.). As a sea-fan and person who likes experimental things, I wouldn't want to miss Megamare at least, because it causes a lot of feelings compared to all the other aquatic creatures I've tested!

For me, Fahrenheit has always had a certain touch of nostalgia, because I come from a generation that knows the smell of childhood.
At that time I didn't know what the fragrance was called or what fragrances should be in general, I only knew that my parents wore them.
When I started to take an interest in fragrances myself, I inevitably came across Fahrenheit at some point and knew the first sprayer directly: "I've known that from before! I felt like I was in some kind of bubble.
After sniffing my way through the currently available Fahrenheit family (perfume, EdT and EdC, I haven't been around long enough for other Flankers) I got stuck with EdC. The scent that is in my memory is of course only a picture of my fantasy and so in the form as my thoughts draw it there is nowhere else, but Fahrenheit Cologne really comes close to me! I'm not saying that it's actually more similar to the 90s version than the current formulation or something like that, I don't have anything to compare with and I honestly wouldn't care, but it reminds me of what burned into my scent memory back then and it's really valuable to me.

The scent itself: In the top note I perceive above all a broad bouquet of citric notes in which the Fahrenheit DNA is integrated. After about 10-15 minutes the violet appears more clearly, accompanied by the cedar wood. The fresh and light feeling is not lost. I don't mind the missing leather note mentioned by the previous speaker, because I'm not a big friend of leather anyway.
After about three hours, the fragrance ends woody and the woody note remains on the skin for another two hours, but can only be smelt there immediately. Considering the fragrance concentration and the many citric notes, the durability is quite okay for me.
The weight/depth that the "standard" Fahrenheit brings with it is not so present here and because it is a lighter and not so distinctive fragrance, I can well understand that it doesn't find much approval, especially if you like the EdT.
But fragrances are subjective and I personally am totally enthusiastic about this fragrance. Not only because it smells like it does, but also because it reminds me of my childhood days and triggers a feeling of light-heartedness.

Since I also own Panama Sport and really like to wear it, I was carried away by the mistake most of you have made here (I think). I bought Panama in 1924 blind.

That wasn't a good decision, because although the quality knows how to convince me, I personally don't like the scent that much. I'm going to join the previous speakers: Panama 1924 reminds very strongly of Le Mâle, even a work colleague thought I would wear the scent of Gaultier. Boellis's fragrance may not be quite so sweet, but the top note shortly after spraying on reminds me very strongly of the smell of sun milk, something that really bothered me at Le Mâle. Where others are reminded of summer, sun, beach and lightness, the smell is simply unpleasant for me (maybe because I generally don't like having to cream myself).
Also in the base I feel the smell as very creamy, the mixture of citric and floral notes (I can see the rose well here) with sandalwood cannot score with me. With the latter note, the fragrance will finish after about 7 hours.

In my environment, the fragrance has attracted a lot of attention and I have to say that Panama gives you a totally cultivated impression. Perhaps the creaminess of the fragrance is responsible for this? It is not too intrusive but also not super discreet, nice for work or so for leisure. I drove well with two sprays. Anyone who likes creamy/fresh fragrances (or simply Le Mâle) will certainly enjoy Panama 1924. Since I don't like this fragrance so much, I won't wear it anymore.

Finally I can only repeat what everyone here says :D doesn't buy blind!