Replica By the Fireplace
On request
Maison Margiela Replica Coffee Break Sample
- Concentration
- Eau de Toilette
- Brand
- Maison Margiela
- Full bottle
- 100 ml
- Range
- Niche
A café morning with lavender and mint
Replica Coffee Break is Maison Margiela's Eau de Toilette about a winter pause in a café: roasted coffee, warm pastries and the hum of the machine. It opens on coffee with red apple and lemon, lavender, spearmint and orange flower sit in the heart, and milk mousse, sandalwood and cedarwood close. Coffee on a fougère frame is an unusual idea, so a trial helps.
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Want the full bottle after testing? Maison Margiela Replica Coffee Break Eau de Toilette (100 ml) at NicheGems
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The composition
How it unfolds in notes
The curve shows the order in which the notes come forward, not their strength.
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Top notes
- Coffee accord
- Red Apple accord
- Lemon essence
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Heart notes
- Lavender essence
- Spearmint essence
- Orange Flower absolute
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Base notes
- Milk Mousse accord
- Sandalwood essence
- Cedarwood essence
- Character
- Moderate
- Concentration
In the same spirit
Similar in character
On the skin
How it unfolds
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The first sip
The opening stacks a coffee accord, a red apple accord and lemon essence. Expect dark, roasted coffee, a crisp and slightly sweet apple, and the lemon keeps the coffee from feeling heavy. This is the most direct, gourmand moment, and it tells you whether you want coffee in a perfume.
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Lavender and spearmint
Lavender, spearmint and orange flower absolute make the heart. The two herbs bring the fougère side, cool, green and slightly sharp, and they brighten the coffee. Orange flower sits between herbs and base, adding a soft floral smoothness.
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Milk, sandalwood, cedar
A milk mousse accord, sandalwood and cedarwood form the base. The milk gives creamy, rounded sweetness, sandalwood a smooth wood and cedarwood a drier, cleaner one, ending warm and quiet, as if you were finishing a milky coffee.
Testing it
How to test it, for whom and why
How to test it
Cooler weather suits it from morning through evening. Apply it to chest and wrists, let the lemon and mint clear so you reach the milk and wood, and notice how the lavender keeps the gourmand side in check. Try it on a working morning and again on a relaxed weekend, in a café if you can.
Who it is for
Meant for those who like gourmands with a fresh, herbal edge and a perfume built on one clear idea. Unisex by listing. A sample helps if you love coffee but doubt you would wear it, or like lavender and want something warmer than a classic fougère.
Why try Maison Margiela Replica Coffee Break as a sample first
Coffee in a perfume divides people: some find it cosy, others sharp or even sour on skin. Here lavender, mint and milk surround the coffee, and only a trial shows how that balance feels on you. FragranceGems fills the 10 ml vial from the original 100 ml bottle and labels it; Maison Margiela is not involved.
At a glance
- Perfumer
- Nathalie Lorson
- Year
- 2019
- Family
- Fougère · Tasty
- For
- Unisex
What you receive
How we fill your sample
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From the original bottle
We start with a full bottle of the perfume. Nothing is diluted, mixed or added.
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Into a glass spray vial
Filled by hand into a clean glass spray vial of 2, 5 or 10 ml and closed straight after filling.
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Labelled by us
Our own label names the brand, the perfume, the concentration and the size.
A decant is not an official brand sample: no box, no original bottle, and we are not affiliated with the brands.
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Read how we fill your sampleQuestions
Frequently asked
Is it just coffee?
No. The coffee is only an accord, set among apple, lemon, lavender and mint, and the scent ends in milk and wood, closer to a café than to a cup of black coffee.
What makes it a fougère?
Lavender sits at the centre of a fougère, with herbal and woody company. The brand says it revisits that classic structure, here adding coffee and milk.
Is it an Eau de Toilette?
Yes. The 100 ml bottle holds Eau de Toilette, and the 10 ml decant holds the same, filled by FragranceGems and labelled by us.
The brand
About Maison Margiela
Maison Margiela is a fashion house first, founded in 1988 by Martin Margiela, a Belgian designer, and based in Paris. Its Replica perfumes work like its Replica garments: each reproduces something found, in this case a memory, and says so on a cotton label. A fireplace, a jazz club, a beach walk, a late Sunday in clean sheets. Whether a memory feels like yours is something only your skin can answer, so start with a few 10 ml decants.
- Fashion house founded in 1988 by Martin Margiela; first fragrance 2010, Replica from 2012
- Every Replica reproduces a memory, described on a cotton label on the bottle
- The concept goes back to the Maison's Replica garments of 1994
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DecantGems is part of FragranceGems B.V. in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. We fill every sample ourselves from the original bottle into a glass spray vial and label it ourselves. Behind it stands the same team that handles every FragranceGems order.
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