Beach Walk by Maison Margiela
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7.2 / 10 897 Ratings
A perfume by Maison Margiela for women and men, released in 2012. The scent is creamy-sweet. It is being marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Creamy
Sweet
Floral
Fresh
Aquatic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
BergamotBergamot LemonLemon Pink pepperPink pepper
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Coconut milkCoconut milk TransluzoneTransluzone Ylang-ylangYlang-ylang HeliotropeHeliotrope
Base Notes Base Notes
MuskMusk BenzoinBenzoin CedarwoodCedarwood

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Scent
7.2897 Ratings
Longevity
6.7715 Ratings
Sillage
6.4719 Ratings
Bottle
7.6719 Ratings
Value for money
6.8449 Ratings
Submitted by Beautycase, last update on 08/13/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance is part of the Replica collection.

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Reviews

39 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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7
Sillage
5
Longevity
5.5
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Ursaw

145 Reviews
Ursaw
Ursaw
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For people who love wearing gourmand and heavy floral fragrances in 40°C heat
The initial cloud smells like a mix of creamy feminine shower gel and cheap sunscreen. Mostly sunscreen. Synthetic florals and citruses, prominent coconut background. A huge cloud that quickly envelops the room. Cloying, aggressive – when trying to breathe, it immediately gets in your mouth.

Credit where it's due – while it's not a pleasant experience, it's definitely a very realistic rendition of what it feels like to be walking along the beach in the summer. It's scorching hot, coarse and unpleasantly wet at the same time, chafing and overwhelming. The sun chews through the rancid sunscreen and painfully bites right into your skin as you struggle to breathe, and yet the tourist women passing you by somehow don't seem to mind it at all – each one wearing a different heavy floral perfume on top of everything else.

In about ~10 minutes an already loud cacophony is joined by the heavy benzoin scent seeping in from below. As if it wasn't sweet enough already. Well, that definitely does bring up childhood memories... Not the good ones. I spend the first ~3 hours stuck in my personal summertime hell.

And I am rather bitter about it, but hey, wasn't I promised a Beach Walk? And I definitely got one. In that particular sense, this is the best Replica out of 10 in my Discovery Set, lol.

It gets softer and settles close to the skin after the first ~3 hours. It's warm, musky, still faintly coconutty, a wee bit aquatic and almost lovable at that point. Has a certain depth to it. It dries down to just vanilla and musk in another ~1,5 hours, and in ~1,5 hours more fades away to a faint nondescript aftertaste.

This second part is neat! But it also feels like a reconciliation phase of an abusive relationship. You won't fool me, Beach Walk. I know what will happen if I give you another go. I'm not wearing you ever again.
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Bottle
6
Sillage
6
Longevity
10
Scent
Scentwitch

292 Reviews
Scentwitch
Scentwitch
Helpful Review 2  
Beach in a bottle
This perfume is a beach in a bottle, no joke. It’s a beautifully light, salty, slightly coconut scented perfume that feels more of a mist. It couldn’t be a better summer scent, no doubt, and it’s going on my buy list immediately.
Beach Walk is the first Replica Parfum I’ve tried, so now they have my interest.
It’s also a great sleeping scent, because of its delicate nature.
Longevity and sillage isn’t great though, but it’s also an EDT, so my expectations weren’t high there. I can easily smell myself though, and that is my goal.
It’s refreshing, so I don’t mind spritzing more on during the day.
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5
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4
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7
Scent
LastWonder

483 Reviews
LastWonder
LastWonder
3  
Pleasant Morning before Going to the Beach
This is the smell of being in a cafe or little breakfast spot a couple blocks away from the beach. You are sitting outside and flowers have grown onto the awning of cafe, giving off a soft and sweet floral scent. The breeze carries the faint smell of salt. You are drinking your lemonade and applying sunscreen before you pay the and start your walk to the ocean. This is a very nice and polite citrus and floral fragrance with some aromatic salt and creaminess. Its bright, fresh, and clean like a person is before they get covered in sand and sweat at the beach. Its a good and well made fragrance but its not particularly unique or interesting.

This fragrance is aromatic, so you will leave a bit of salt floral scent trail behind you. This lasted about 4 hours on my skin. There are three sizes available starting at 10ml for $35, 30ml for $85, and a 100ml for $165. For those prices and how crowd pleasing this fragrance is, its a good purchase and addition to anyone's collection.
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6
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5
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9
Longevity
4
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Stickerdecal

10 Reviews
Stickerdecal
Stickerdecal
Helpful Review 1  
Coconut Walk?
After being slightly disappointed with the projection/longevity of Springtime In A Park, I'll admit that my hopes weren't very high for the same with Beach Walk. I was pleasantly surprised to be proved wrong!

Beach Walk is definitely still a close-to-skin style of fragrance, but it was much more noticeable than SIAP. I was aware of its presence all day long - and even at the end of the day when I was laying in bed, I was still getting an (albeit little) bubble of fragrance.

Unfortunately for me, I'm not actually a very big fan of the scent. I've been searching for a Summery, sun cream-esque scent for a while now, but everything that sounds like it might be what I'm looking for ends up either too vanilla or coconut heavy. The top notes of lemon, bergamot and pink pepper fizzle away almost instantly on my skin, leaving behind a creamy, musky coconut scent that is less reminiscent of a walk on the beach and more like spilling a packet of desiccated coconut whilst baking.

As a young teenager, I was gifted a set of Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers perfumes, and this really reminds me of how Harajuku Lovers G smells on me. It's a scent that wants to be fresh, but there's a cloying and sweet creamy coconut element that prevents it from working.

I will note that this could definitely be a personal thing - I smelled Beach Walk on my partner (we are working through the discovery set together) and whilst coconut cream was definitely still the main note, the pink pepper and cedarwood were much more noticable on him.

It isn't my least favourite perfume in the world, but it definitely isn't one that I'll be reaching for frequently either. Once the little sample atomiser I have is spent, my time with Beach Day will likely come to an end.
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Aerodynamic

9 Reviews
Aerodynamic
Aerodynamic
2  
Like a personal sunbeam
On me, Beach Walk was almost entirely composed of it's transluzone notes, at first. Before long, around 1-2 hours, the scent transformed into one of coconut milk with notes of lemon + bergamot. It's sillage was low for me, but when the wind blows it does transport you to a youthful beach day with friends.

It lasted quite long on me, around 6-7 hours, but if you DO NOT like the smell of suncream on your skin I would urge you to try it first, as it might not be the scent for everyone. The fragrance to me leaned towards synthetic. Perfectly enjoyable, bought a smile to my face when I caught it throughout the day.

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Lillil13Lillil13 2 years ago
7
Bottle
5
Sillage
5
Longevity
6.5
Scent
Smells like straight sunscreen and doesn’t last super long, would just be cheaper to put sunscreen on
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Caroleanne81Caroleanne81 6 months ago
10
Bottle
10
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
A great Sun screen scent. I love this in summer and find it addictive! I just adore it! Lasts a good 4 hours on me
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ScentwitchScentwitch 5 years ago
4
Bottle
6
Sillage
6
Longevity
10
Scent
I smell like a salty mermaid and I love it!
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Guccy2021Guccy2021 3 years ago
8
Bottle
10
Scent
Instantly takes me back to OBX summers. Creamy sunscreen and salt hits your nose immediately. Dries down to quiet white floral
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SirrysclosetSirryscloset 8 months ago
8
Bottle
6
Sillage
8
Longevity
9.5
Scent
The best beach inspired fragrance I’ve smelled. 10/10.
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SeldmSeldm 1 year ago
5
Sillage
6
Longevity
8
Scent
very much summer in a spray. likely could work with many different body chemistries!
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NeroliLvrNeroliLvr 2 years ago
Smells 90% like TF soleil blanc...
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CircsamCircsam 3 months ago
Starts pleasant sunscreen, then mellows out to coconut and other juicy scents. Lasted awhile on me. Summer in a bottle :)
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Bglobe1Bglobe1 14 days ago
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
7
Scent
Creamy and lightly floral, settling into a coconut baby powder scent with a pleasantly sweet and musky base.
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hadrosaurhadrosaur 1 month ago
Smells like expensive sunscreen, like one that costs $80 because it's vegan or "all-natural" or something
Drydown gets a little more powdery
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