Replica By the Fireplace
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Rum, tobacco leaf and vanilla after dark
Cocktails being mixed, cigar smoke in the air and music playing low: Replica Jazz Club recreates a private jazz club in a Brooklyn basement bar. It opens with pink pepper, lemon and neroli, moves on to rum and vetiver, and rests on styrax, tobacco leaf and vanilla bean. Maison Margiela calls it a warm and cozy eau de toilette of the ambery woody family.
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The composition
The curve shows the order in which the notes come forward, not their strength.
On the skin
Pink pepper essence, Primofiore lemon oil and neroli oil open the scent bright and a little sharp, a clear start before the room warms up. Lemon and neroli keep the first minutes clean, and the pepper gives them a dry edge.
The heart is built on rum absolute, with clary sage oil and Java vetiver oil around it. The rum brings a sweet, boozy warmth, the clary sage an herbal dryness, and the vetiver a dark green earthiness that stops the sweetness from sitting too heavy.
In the base, styrax resin, tobacco leaf absolute and vanilla bean CO2 come together as a smoky, resinous sweetness. The brand lets tobacco leaf and pink pepper stand for the cigars and vanilla for the drinks, and by this stage the two read as one atmosphere.
Wearing it
Evenings are what this scent was made for: bars, dinners, a night out with music. It is warm rather than loud, so it carries well through the cooler months. Two or three sprays on the chest and wrists are enough for an eau de toilette, as rum and tobacco bloom with skin warmth.
For people who enjoy dark, boozy scents with tobacco and vanilla, and who want atmosphere rather than clean freshness. It is listed as unisex. Think of late dinners, winter nights and cocktail bars more than a bright office morning.
The brand tells this memory with ingredients you can follow one by one: rum and vanilla bean for the drinks, tobacco leaf and pink pepper for the cigars. It also sets the scene somewhere specific, as the Replica idea asks. It came out in 2013, composed by Aliénor Massenet.
Questions
Rum absolute sits at the centre of the heart, so it is a clear part of the scent, but lemon, vetiver, tobacco and vanilla surround it. The effect is a warm, boozy sweetness rather than a single drink note.
A little. The smoke comes from tobacco leaf and styrax resin in the base, and the pepper adds a dry edge. It is a soft, cigar-lounge kind of smoke, rounded off by the vanilla bean.
Eau de toilette, which sits below a parfum in strength, in a 100 ml size. The resin and tobacco base still give it body.
It leans warm, so autumn and winter evenings suit it best. On a mild summer night indoors, in a bar or restaurant, it can still work.
The house
Maison Margiela is a Paris fashion house founded in 1988 by the Belgian designer Martin Margiela. Its fragrance collection Replica turns memories into scent, from a fireplace to a jazz club or a lazy Sunday morning, and every bottle carries a cotton label modelled on the Maison's 1994 Replica garments.
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