Replica

At the Barber's 2014

At the Barber's by Maison Margiela
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7.5 / 10 487 Ratings
A perfume by Maison Margiela for men, released in 2014. The scent is fresh-spicy. It was last marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Fresh
Spicy
Fougère
Green
Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
BasilBasil Bitter orangeBitter orange Black pepperBlack pepper
Heart Notes Heart Notes
LavenderLavender RosemaryRosemary GeraniumGeranium
Base Notes Base Notes
EvernylEvernyl White muskWhite musk Tonka beanTonka bean

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.5487 Ratings
Longevity
7.1428 Ratings
Sillage
6.6428 Ratings
Bottle
7.7417 Ratings
Value for money
7.0204 Ratings
Submitted by Freeestyler, last update on 01/24/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance was part of the collection "Replica".

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to
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Syzygy73

4 Reviews
Syzygy73
Syzygy73
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Just a quick trim
The opening is superb. A beautifully rich mixture of shaving cream, soap and lavender evokes in a very realistic way the experience of shaving etc. one might associate with a traditional barber shop. Unlike a barbershop quartet, if I may mix metaphors a little, this fragrance has no depth. The clean smelling soapiness fades far too quickly becoming a generic tonka and musk base. This is decent, but not remarkable. Rive Gauche is still the top-dog.
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Itchynose

41 Reviews
Itchynose
Itchynose
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Step inside a traditional barbershop
The beautifully blended notes in At The Barber's –classic lavender, aniseed-like basil, white musk– manage to recreate a very specific moment: that first step inside an old style barbershop when the smell of countless colognes and freshly cut hair hits your nostrils; an evocative scent conjuring up images of vintage bars of soap, medicinal camphor, lotions, balms, herbal hair tonics, mentholated after shaves and traditional remedies in old glass bottles.

At The Barber's is one of the most accomplished scents in Margiela's Replica line; a clean and spicy retro fragrance to wear and admire, practically a work of art.
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Tempcore

10 Reviews
Tempcore
Tempcore
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Clean Niche
Off the sprayer, Replica: At the Barber's smells clean. Very clean.

Scent-wise, it is an amalgamation of the most inoffensive notes of common masculine hair care products rounded off with a note of geranium for a creamy accord.

Longevity is 6 - 8 hours, depending on your sprays; warmer - hot climate definitely helps. As for projection, it is not dense enough to project through a sweatshirt, jacket, or winter coat; let's say arms-length while dressed for warm weather.

At the Barber's is so inoffensive, its lack of offense is often the basis of the most neutral and negative reviews who ultimately complain about the price tag. Meanwhile, they seem to forget one important factor: this is a niche fragrance.

Looking for a fragrance that stands up to warmer weather, but not offensive enough to have delicate noses turning away? Then give Maison Martin Margiela's Replica: At the Barber's a sample.

"But, but, but it smells like something cheaper and off a retail counter." Maybe, but it sure as heck doesn't perform like something cheap. This isn't something devised by accountants to be the next panty-dropping, club-banging, sillage monster meant to have the ladies at the office dropping to their knees. There are many other fragrances that serve that purpose.
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FvSpee

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FvSpee
Top Review 31  
Very tidy here, master!
Maison Margiela is a Parisian fashion house only 30 years old, which seems to me to be more oriented towards haute couture and piggybacking than the (comparatively!) down-to-earth Santa Eulalia. The founder, Mr Margiela, was Belgian.

This house has also bought itself a fragrance program (which is how it should be), a few individual fragrances ("Mutiny" and "untitled" as far as I can see) and then a series called "Replica" from about a dozen EdTs and a few EdPs. "Replica" does not mean, contrary to what I first thought and contrary to what at least some of the labels (this one for example) suggest, that old scent recipes are dug up and revived (like Anglia Perfumery), but only that certain ideas of situations, moments, environments (like e.g. "lipstick", "campfire" or even "barber") are implemented in scent technology. An idea that, by the way, I don't find quite so original now. The price is not exaggerated unlike that for the clothes of the house and is thus around 100 euros per 100 ml. It is also worth mentioning that there are two "filter" fragrances to the series, "Blur" and "Glow". "Blur" should, if applied additionally, soften every fragrance in the series, "Glow" should, on the contrary, spice up, i.e. make it brighter and brighter. A kind of pre-structured layering. Wouldn't be for me, but maybe someone would.

At the Barber's implements the fragrance idea of a barber's hairdresser suitably and in a very pleasant, friendly and unobtrusive way. I can't provide a detailed analysis, the fragrance is too homogeneous for that, but the spicy, fresh, soapy and somewhat warm notes that are commonly associated with "Barbershop" are all there. Associations such as leather straps for pulling off the razor, pots with shaving foam, powder puffs perhaps, fit into this scent picture without any compulsion.

The scent is (differently than occasionally noted here) very durable, after 8 hours a complex soap-fresh scent can still be perceived very close, and after almost 14 hours, extremely skinny but then, I still feel very fine, very pleasant tonka bean (you can always bait me there). The Sillage, on the other hand, is absolutely moderate; again a fragrance with a pressure relief valve, you can bathe in it and still not bother your fellow men.

At the Barber's isn't a sweet scent from my point of view, not even in the base. It is only suitable, as is appropriate for a fragrance of this genre, for a delicate, spicily integrated warmth, which at best plays over a little into the sweetness. And in the first three hours I always take a slight stink note which I cannot assign to any of the ingredients, I would have suspected something like coriander herb, but find none. But this note is only just strong enough to make the fragrance more interesting and less smooth, it never turns into a really unpleasant one.

And this is perhaps also the strength and weakness of the fragrance: This barbershop is very friendly and tidy, bright and by the way also very modern (although of course with traditional soaps, creams, hair lotions and the like more equipped, and also a few vintage offset pieces from the flea market stand around). It's a really nice scent! But maybe a little bit too smooth and syllabic to really fall in love with him. After wearing it for two days now, I give myself my good old "Windsor" from the Czech drugstore supplier ALPA for comparison tomorrow; I almost think this hairdresser smells just as classic, but has more heart and is of real shot and grain. And there's the haircut at pre-war prices.
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MrMagic

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MrMagic
MrMagic
Top Review 10  
100% BARBERSHOP.
Dear friends of shaving foam,

so here now my review of the second fragrance of Maison Margiela. This is to bring me according to the concept of these fragrances olfactory in the barbershop. After this Jazzclub has not succeeded, I can already anticipate: More barbershop does not go. The fragrance can be called namely quite simply as a barbershop in purest form, should your barber bring you with proper shaving cream again in shot.
Let's get to the scents in detail: At the Barbers starts neatly spicy with a strong note of black pepper, which after a few minutes makes room for basil, later also for the rosemary. Lavender is the most dominant note from start to finish, although it has to be said that it generally comes across as more restrained. The fragrance twin Platinum Egoiste cited here comes here sharper and generally also metallic therefore, so that both come from the same fragrance family, but for me are clearly not twins.
In the drydown, we have 1:1 shaving cream with At the Barbers. I think there are few scents that can be so easily compared to one product, but Maison Margiela's creation here simply wanted to be authentic and it succeeded.
The greatest strength of At the Barbers is for me at the same time but also the greatest weakness: The fragrance smells really good after shaving cream, but nothing more, if we exclude the spicy prelude times. I like that so quite well and shows that the fragrance creates olfactory exactly what he should create, but for me it is still a little too monotonous, as I would have to buy the fragrance.
With the objection that shaving cream is much cheaper, has the one or other Parfumo of course completely right, unfortunately, this holds in terms of H / S not so good with.
I therefore got me a big can of shaving cream and wear the foam now the whole day generously applied in the face with me around. This not only ensures the same fragrance experience, no, this sets a trend for the shaving cream man of the world!
Seriously, At the Barbers Sillage is slightly above average, but so also keeps very long constant. One takes the fragrance clearly further away from the skin was and that up to eight hours before it becomes really skin. The fragrance held on my skin the first time 10 hours, in another test even 12 hours - so there's nothing to complain.
The bottles I could unfortunately not yet hold in the hand, but these look great in photos and videos. If the spray head now also sits reasonably and sprays, make the already really what here.
In general, I like in this direction smelling Platinum Egoiste by the sharpness and metallic notes a little better, if I would put the emphasis on herbaceous notes, I have to look at the Beau de Jour by Tom Ford again a little closer. If you just want an authentic shaving cream scent that comes across as clearly masculine, but still doesn't smother or olfactorically overwhelm your counterpart, you might find what you're looking for here. Above all, the durability is a clear plus, otherwise I can of course recommend the shaving foam in the face!

As always, thank you for reading!
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Fjsc3ntsFjsc3nts 2 months ago
Don't really love this on skin, I like to spray it on my couch, bed, or in the bathroom. Smells really nice but not very wearable.
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KatzevogelKatzevogel 12 months ago
Green and fresh, a great fougere. Clean and "masculine".
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SaradoninSaradonin 3 years ago
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Canned shaving foam and a floor cleaning bucket.
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KingPinKingPin 6 years ago
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Quite nice realistic barbershop opening, but quickly turns into a bland, boring musky thing.
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