Is Aromara Black Tide a dupe of Lorenzo Pazzaglia Black Sea?
Black Sea Extrait
| Extrait | Concentration | Extrait |
| U | Gender | U |
| 2019 | Year | - |
| ££ | Price Tier | £ |
Black Tide Extrait
Where they differ
Biggest gaps first. The bolder side leads.
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How it unfolds
Notes
- Black Sea
- Black Tide
- in both
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Which Should You Buy?
This one's a beast-mode marine scent for those who love their aquatics dark, salty, and unapologetically dominant. While performance reports are wildly inconsistent, the scent itself is a unique, powerful journey into a stormy, deep ocean.
Black Tide chases Lorenzo Pazzaglia Black Sea's famously realistic salty-marine accord, and gets close on the opening - sea salt and ozone are convincing. It flattens out faster through the drydown than the niche original, losing some of the mossy, ambergris-heavy depth, but as a summer beach scent for a fraction of the price it delivers.
Scent Profile
How They Wear
Mood
Notes
Top Notes
Top Notes
Heart Notes
Heart Notes
Base Notes
Base Notes
Note weights are our estimate from each note's place in the pyramid, not the share of the formula. Brands do not publish formulations.
Performance
Season and Occasion Fit
Seasons
A warm-weather pick - at its best in summer and spring.
Occasions
Its potent projection and distinct aquatic-animalic profile make it unsuitable for office wear, where it could easily overpower. It's more suited for making a statement on a night out or for personal enjoyment during casual activities, particularly in warmer weather.
Seasons
A briny, ozonic marine scent that's most at home in warm weather and near water.
Occasions
Fresh and salty, well suited to casual daytime wear and active outdoor settings.
Similarity Breakdown
Our estimate of how alike these two fragrances smell, calculated from their published notes. It is a position on our scale, not a measured percentage of shared smell.
Every one of its 11 notes is in the original, including Salt, Sea Water, Myrtle
Without patchouli and rain
Where to buy
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