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Maverick Aaron Terence Hughes 2023

Version from 2023

8.8 / 10 60 Ratings

A popular perfume by Aaron Terence Hughes for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is sweet-spicy. Projection and longevity are above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Sweet

Spicy

Creamy

Gourmand

Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Lemon

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Tonka bean Plum

Plum

Vanilla

Base Notes

Cedarwood

Nutmeg

Patchouli

White musk

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Aaron Terence Hughes Brand owner, Perfume maker

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Ratings

Scent

8.860 Ratings

Longevity

8.856 Ratings

Sillage

8.655 Ratings

Bottle

8.157 Ratings

Value for money

8.048 Ratings

Submitted by Manu01 · last update on 10/12/2025.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/29/2025

10Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

ATHfanatic
4 Reviews

ATHfanatic

2

Heavenly

This is pure airy vanilla in a bottle, it smells like your sitting on a cloud and breathing in vanilla and musk. It doesn’t change much throughout the wear but it does introduce plum towards the end. The mix of tonka, white musk, and vanilla is chefs kiss and it sits on the skin for 10+ hours. This is an A+ and top 3 from ATH!

07/21/2023

10Scent 10Longevity 9Sillage

Mitchcraft
36 Reviews

Mitchcraft

3

Cinderella has come to the ball and this is the magic slipper.

If, you read my first review of Maverick 2023 you will know this was not love at first, sight? No that doesn’t sound right because the bottle is gorgeous, a 10/10 in its 50ml form.

It was the smell that I hated. I got old 90’s furniture polish mixed with marzipan which is the only cake in the world I have hated all my life since I was a child. I was devastated because I had been buying the 10ml bottles and when looking at the notes after hearing this was being discontinued and saw plum I instantly bought it thinking about 1 Million Lucky and Bad Boy Cobalt which both have plum and are 2 of my favourites.

After 3 hours though I came back and edited the rating and made an edit saying this was going to require a few more tries and finally today I can appreciate this for what it is. I think at first I kept concentrating on what I didn’t like instead of just going with it and letting myself experience everything it had to offer and after I got the chance to spray this and go out a walk what I came back with was not what I went out with at all. What a transformation! If this wasn’t unisex and aimed at a feminine audience it could be called Cinderella because it definitely has a beautiful glass slipper with something magic inside of it.

It has been a while since I have had to wear something a few times to fully appreciate its true beauty back when I bought D&G Light Blue Eau Intense. Maverick is on a whole other level from that though.

I won’t lie and say that the opening is any better because I still needed that time for it to transform in to the beauty that it is now, so I would advise anyone who buys this before it is gone forever because remember this is being discontinued that when they wear it, if they have a night out planned that they spray this on in advance giving it time to work its magic.

Before I go any further I have to talk more about the bottle. His 10ml bottles get an 8/10 but his 50ml are a straight up 10/10. It comes in a nice snug velvet fit base that you slide the black glass bottle into that gets covered with a cardboard cylindrical shaped lid with a lovely metal label. The bottle itself is black glass with a good weight to it and a great metal label with embossed text. The lid is magnetic and has crystal quartz on the top in a circular pattern around his unicorn logo. The bottle is pressurised and the atomiser is beyond any of my other fragrance bottles i own. It’s like firing a super soaker pump action water pistol lol. Just amazing. Quality is definitely on Aaron’s mind from the ingredients he uses, all the way to the end product when it gets shipped which always arrives in 1-2 days nationally. International could be different of course.

Now for what Aaron prides himself on when creating his products, performance. Once this gets in to its Cinderella at the ball stage wow does this project! No need to sniff the wrist with this one, no sir, this is letting you know it is there and there to stay because the previous times I tried it and woke up the following day and realising that with time comes beauty I knew longevity is a 10/10, plain and simple. Aaron works to produce long lasting fragrances and with Maverick he has succeeded 100%.

I have talked about how much of a beauty this becomes but I have not really talked about how it actually smells and what of. Like I said, I hate marzipan which I think was coming from the tonka beans as that can produce an almond like smell in large quantities from what I have read but now that I am enjoying the notes in their entirety and full glory, I am not getting that anymore. The first few times I wore it I wondered where the sweet plum was, in fact I wondered where the sweet anything was but now I get some other rich autumn seasonal cake that I am stuck for words to describe in all honesty. This is gourmand and for a change it’s not a sickly sweet, chocolate with caramel kind of gourmand that has me craving a diabetes nightmare. No Maverick is not cloying or super sweet, it’s just the right amount and I do get the plum, it’s just not the kind you get in 1 Million Lucky or Bad Boy Cobalt. This is more a dry but slightly moist, not a lot, rich cake with a little bit of fruit and if you wear this on date night you will have your date ready to dive in and eat you up. Next to Aaron’s Hard Candy 2023 this is now my 2nd favourite gourmand and although I say Autumn would be a good time to wear it I would say you can wear this at any time of the year.

I didn’t think I could enjoy gourmand until I tried Aaron’s fragrances because they were just all too sickly sweet for me. 1 Million Lucky was fine but others like Vicious Cacao was way too sweet for me and Insulo now after realising what can be done with the likes of Hard Candy and Maverick I now find Insulo boring and too safe.

I think this can be worn by both men and women but leans more masculine, evening, day, leisure but definitely will be great on date nights for sure that is when it will shine and even though it projects a lot you can wear this to the office for sure.

Ok time for scores.

Scent the first hour or so I have to be honest a 3/10 I hate smelling like a furniture polish but once we get past that, this is a 10/10 easy!

Projection again when we get to the best part on me a 8.5/10

Sillage, my mum said I was leaving a very strong trail around the house which was easy to follow so a 9/10 when that happens.

Longevity as I said the beautiful Cinderella at the ball stage lasts in to the next day 10/10, no need to be home by midnight with this one.

Value I got this Extrait concentration of 50ml for about £80 and the bottle it comes in just 10/10 absolutely worth it

Bottle like I said 10/10

If this sounds like something you would like, get it while you can. He has 10ml bottles for real cheap also another reason value is a 10/10

02/24/2023

10Scent 10Longevity 6Sillage

Billford420
17 Reviews

Billford420

Helpful Review 3

Tonka tonka tonka

This is a tonka fragrance, that’s it, everyone go home.
This fragrance reminds me of sipping dudgnon with a joint while looking over a high rise apartment on a rainy day I just my robes and some old jazz playing
The top notes are just an afterthought. Bergamot? Yeah right, we completely skip those and go straight to the mid and base.
The mids go straight into tonka and vanilla that’s last all the way through the base.
Longevity is pretty huge 8-10 hours with maybe 2 hours of projection.
Nutmeg is there in the base, but not getting any wood or patchouli, and I feel the white musks might be here to give a little lift and a quick hug.
Overall this is a great scent of dates, cold weather, or just lounging around the house.