Lorenz - why is the solution with noise in initial condition on the same curve?

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I want to use Lorenz'63 for the purpose of testing some algorithms I'm currently researching.

When I defined a system and solved it in Matlab, plot of x-coordinates for explicit and perturbed initial conditions looked like this:

x-coordinate for both solutions

Obviously, there's a big difference in values. But, when I plotted the two solutions $3D$, I got this plot:

Green solution is with explicit, and magenta solution is with perturbed initial conditions

Apparently, both solutions lie on the same curve. How is this possible? I would really appreciate any explanation or, even better, some sources from where I can read more about this and get a better feeling of what I'm dealing with.

I tried to find this information in some papers but I couldn't find the explanation.

Thanks a lot!