“First off, this is a 99.9% clone of Parfums de Marly Pegasus. Pegasus is a niche fragrance that has a very strong burnt almond note and with heavy chord of tonka beans. It's a very heavy, thick scent (IMO) that can be cloying--particularly during the opening. I actually don't care for the opening of Pegasus, which can be overwhelming if you're too heavy on the trigger. The dry down, however, is lovely. Pegasus is a linear fragrance, so it doesn't change or evolve much during the dry down. You still get those almond and tonka bean notes in spades, but they calm down to manageable levels that I enjoy very much. Pegasus is an excellent performer for me. It projects for 2-3 hours off of my skin and it carries some distance before becoming a skin scent. It can stay skin scent for me for another 8-10 hours (so, 14+ hours of performance). Sillage is also very solid with Pegasus. I am not sure I would call it beastly performer for me, but it's pretty close to being beastly.So, why I have just spent your time reviewing Pegasus? Well, Armaf's Craze is, IMO, a near perfect (99%) copy of Pegasus. I own both and if spray Pegasus on my right hand and Craze on my left, I can't tell them apart. Not only do they smell the same to me, they have the same performance. If you love Pegasus, you can buy Craze and probably never need to buy another bottle of Pegasus again--it's that good of a copy IMO.My review of Pegasus applies to Craze--at least for the juice. The bottle is another story. Armaf went really cheap on this bottle--you're giving up something when you pay $25 for juice that PDM sells for $300 retail. Craze's bottle has a cheap plastic silver cap that attaches magnetically to a plastic cover to the top of the bottle. On my bottle (and those of others that I have seen), the plastic has a tendency to disconnect from the bottle because the magnets are stronger than the adhesive Armaf uses to attach the bottle cover to the glass. The bottle also has a tacky leatherette decoration to announce that it is "CRAZE". It's pretty awful looking if you ask me. I might just have to decant my juice from the Craze bottle into something more worthy of this juice. On the positive side though, the atomizer on my bottle of Craze works pretty well. No real complaints on that front.In short, if you love Pegasus, this is a safe blind buy. If you haven't tried Pegasus and you are nervous about blind buying this juice, I suggest you go to a nice department store (Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom etc.) and give Pegasus a try. Pegasus isn't for everyone and neither is Craze.”
