Parfums de Marly Pegasus

You can buy the genuine Parfums de Marly Pegasus straight from FragranceNet.com. The real bottle comes first; the accessible alternatives below are there if you'd rather spend less.

Parfums de Marly Pegasus opens with Anise, Bergamot and Almond; a heart of Cypress, Violet Leaf and Orange Blossom; drying down to Ambroxan, Vanilla and Sandalwood, from notes Parfums de Marly (official) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, aromatic, floral, sweet, woody, the coarse families Parfums de Marly (official) cites. How it wears depends on your skin and the concentration. We only publish notes and accords we can trace to a source.

The genuine Parfums de Marly Pegasus runs $195.99 at FragranceNet.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them; a real 5ml sample is $3.99; the "smells-like" alternatives start around $39.

We rank the "smells-like" alternatives to Pegasus by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Pegasus, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

Parfums de Marly Pegasus is listed as a men's fragrance by the retailer. That's a marketing label, not a rule: fragrance has no gender, and plenty of "men's" scents are worn by anyone. We show how it's sold and leave the wearing to you.

AromaPassions Intense Extrait de Parfum is the alternative we list first for Pegasus, ranked on shared cited accords then price, at $39 against $195.99 for the genuine bottle. Most alternative houses publish no scent profile of their own, so for those we show the original's cited accords rather than claim an independently verified match. It's meant to evoke Pegasus, not replicate it, so we link the real bottle first and let you judge for yourself.

Amouage Dia (shares Violet Leaf, Orange Blossom, Sandalwood); Argos Pour Femme (shares Violet Leaf, Orange Blossom, Sandalwood); Maison Alhambra La Charmante (shares Ambroxan, Orange Blossom, Sandalwood). These share specific notes with Pegasus, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Pegasus's cited notes they actually share, weighting rarer notes heavier than ubiquitous ones. Each is its own fragrance with real, sourced notes, not a copy of Pegasus, and has its own page.

Pegasus reads as citrus, aromatic, floral, sweet, woody. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gioia, Al Haramain Amber Oud Smell Dubai and Versace Atelier Jasmine Au Soleil nearby. We rank them by how many of Pegasus's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Pegasus, and each has its own page.