Maison Margiela positioned Replica Chasing Sunset as a modern release looking back at a golden moment in time.
Maison Margiela’s Replica Chasing Sunset feels like more than a fragrance. It’s a warm memory you didn’t know you had. Sun-heated skin after the sea. Juicy fruit eaten with sandy fingers. A slow golden hour where nobody checks the time. Suddenly you’re in Ipanema, 1965, where the beach isn’t a plan but simply part of living, music drifting somewhere in the distance and the day melting gently into night… all of it lingering softly on the skin.
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Ipanema, Brazil — 1965: Where the Sun Never Rushed
In the mid-1960s, Ipanema wasn’t yet a global postcard. It was a lifestyle. Bossa nova drifting from radios. Barefoot afternoons stretching into glowing evenings. Skin kissed by salt, sun, and freedom. This was the era when sunsets weren’t photographed — they were lived. People just let life happen. Time slowed.
Replica Chasing Sunset captures that exact moment: the sun dipping low, the air warm but soft, skin still holding the day’s heat. That golden hour when music drifts from cafés, and the ocean melts into liquid amber.
Replica Chasing Sunset – The Scent I’m Dreaming Of
The buzz online is all about mango, solar florals, cardamom, and sandalwood. I’m hoping for mango — but the grown-up kind, not sweet or childish.
And then there’s solar floral — what even is that? It’s not a flower you can pick. It’s sunlight bottled, the warmth that settles into your skin after hours under the sun.
Not green, not powdery, not your usual tropical bloom. Perfumers will recreate it with white florals, soft musks, and a hint of saltiness, capturing that sun-warmed skin feeling that makes you just want to linger in the golden hour.
This won’t be tropical gardenia or coconut lotion. It will be skin radiating warmth. Cardamom will sneak in to keep it interesting, a little spicy, far from predictable. And sandalwood? It’ll wrap everything up in creamy, comforting smoothness, like a gentle, sun-warmed hug.
No coconut. No clichés. No sugary tropical overload. Instead, this will be a sun-drenched, fruity-woody scent that doesn’t need to announce itself. Beachy and warm. Quietly addictive, like a golden hour you never want to end.
Alongside Beach Walk and Sailing Day: Replica Chasing Sunset – A New Golden Hour
This scent will find its place alongside the Replica line’s beach-inspired fragrances, like Beach Walk and Sailing Day, but it will take a different approach. While Beach Walk is all sunlit sand and creamy coconut, and Sailing Day is crisp sea breeze, algae, and salty ocean air—but this one?
It’s the golden hour captured in a bottle. Skin still warm from the sun, soft fruity-woody notes meeting radiant, glowing florals.
No clichés, no tropical notes, no coconut or tuberose — just that little sun-soaked moment that makes you pause and smile.
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