Maison Margiela · 2012 · Jacques Cavallier and Marie Salamagne

Replica Beach Walk

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Maison Margiela asks $170 for 100 ml

VersionEau de Toilette

Bergamot, lemon and pink pepper over sunny ylang-ylang and creamy coconut milk, drying to cedar, soft white musk and benzoin.

Maison Margiela says

You’ll smell bergamot essence, pink pepper essence, lemon essence, ylang ylang essence, transluzone, heliotrope accord, coconut milk accord, cedarwood essence, White Musks and benzoin resinoïd.

More from Maison Margiela’s description

It also mentions Bergamot, Ylang-ylang, Coconut milk and Musk.

The house’s page

The drawn Replica Beach Walk bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Replica Beach Walk’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, pink pepper, lemon, ylang-ylang, heliotrope, coconut drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Replica Beach Walk, top notes: Bergamot, Pink pepper, Lemon

Heartas it settles

Replica Beach Walk, heart: Ylang-ylang, Transluzone, Heliotrope, Coconut, Musk

Dry-downwhat stays

Replica Beach Walk, dry-down: Cedar, White musks, Benzoin, Coumarin (tonka)

What’s inside it

What Maison Margiela names

Bergamot essencePink pepper essenceLemon essenceYlang ylang essenceTransluzoneHeliotrope accordCoconut milk accordCedarwood essenceWhite MusksBenzoin resinoïdYlang-ylangMusk

What the label names

16 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender10 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals10

Benzyl salicylateAmyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Hexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)CitronellolGeraniolMethyl anthranilateHydroxycitronellalFarnesolAmylcinnamyl alcoholCinnamyl alcohol

Sweet1

Coumarin (tonka)

Spices1

Isoeugenol

Powder1

Anise alcohol
10 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell10

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoateOrange 4Yellow 5Red 4Benzotriazolyl dodecyl p-cresol, not in Ingredients yetPentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl, not in Ingredients yetHydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

AniNishane · shares bergamot, pink pepper, cedar (Atlas cedar), benzoin and 1 more$375 for 100 ml · about twice Replica Beach Walk’s $170
Spectre GhostFrench Avenue · shares bergamot, pink pepper, cedar (Atlas cedar), benzoin and 1 moreabout $41 for 80 ml · about a third of Replica Beach Walk’s $170
Aventus for HerCreed · shares bergamot, pink pepper, lemon, ylang-ylang and 1 more$460 for 75 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.