Replica

Lipstick On 2015

Lipstick On by Maison Margiela
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7.8 / 10 398 Ratings
A popular perfume by Maison Margiela for women, released in 2015. The scent is powdery-sweet. It was last marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Powdery
Sweet
Floral
Creamy
Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
HeliotropeHeliotrope BergamotBergamot NeroliNeroli
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Orris concreteOrris concrete GalbanumGalbanum Orange blossom absoluteOrange blossom absolute
Base Notes Base Notes
Bourbon vanillaBourbon vanilla Tonka bean absoluteTonka bean absolute PatchouliPatchouli
Ratings
Scent
7.8398 Ratings
Longevity
7.4339 Ratings
Sillage
6.8349 Ratings
Bottle
7.4346 Ratings
Value for money
7.193 Ratings
Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 01/12/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance was part of the collection "Replica".

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Nanaafromgha

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Nanaafromgha
Nanaafromgha
Helpful Review 1  
A fantastic lipstick scent (from someone who isn’t too fond of them!)
As someone that’s not big on powdery scents, I actually really enjoy this perfume. It aptly named and smells exactly like a tube of lipstick. It’s remarkable what notes can be thrown together in a perfume to create such a photorealistic and nostalgic scent.

While the scent is vanilla forward, it’s not actually very sweet. So if you’re looking for a saccharine sweet vanilla with this, you won’t be finding it. To me, it’s more powdery than it is vanillic, and I think it’s because iris is really the star of the show here.

The performance is moderate on this in both projection and longevity, and I think it’s a a very versatile scent that can be worn year round. It does smell very fancy, but I think you could wear this whenever and it would be fine. I’m happy to have a bottle, but I’m not sure if it’s a scent that I can reach for and wear often. I may decant some to keep for memories, and sell the rest.
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Rosymel

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Rosymel
Rosymel
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Why was this discontinued? Perfect lipstick scent
This is the only heliotrope heavy fragrance I’ve found where the heliotrope didn’t smell just awful on me. It smells like the actual flower, very pretty. I find this a lovely opening, very retro smelling but not overpowering. And YES the opening has a distinct vintage lipstick note that is extremely realistic and, accordingly, nostalgic. I imagine this is what a glam lady in the 1950s would have smelled like! Dry down is a smooth vanilla blend with a little something else, maybe the waxy iris others talk about. I think it’s one of the most perfectly balanced, cleverly constructed perfumes I’ve smelled. I absolutely love it and am sorry it was discontinued.
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Scentwitch

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Scentwitch
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My grandma’s lipstick
Wow—I was shocked at how upon first spray this perfume literally smells like my grandma’s lipstick. It literally took me back to the 1970’s and I recalled that wonderful smell while I rooted through her makeup drawer.
That lipstick smell is immediate and unless you know what it is you will miss it. It’s quite wonderful! It only lasts a few minutes though, evolving to a fizzy vanilla cherry soda smell. Very warm, subtle, inviting, 1950’s all the way through. My mind is still in shock! I absolutely love it!

I can’t stop smelling myself today and intend to buy a full bottle as soon as I can. It’s truly unique and absolutely incredible!

Sillage: close
Longevity: average
Tester bottle used

My only brand suggestion is to put this magical juice in a lipstick shaped bottle.
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Valrahmeh

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Valrahmeh
Valrahmeh
Top Review 28  
Nothing is with lipstick
I love old stuff. Old books, old furniture, manuscripts, hats, gloves and fans from the Belle Epoque to the 50s. For old perfumes, however, I only prefer the original packaging, because I hate it when an oily drop of upset perfume drips on my fingers. Recently, a perfectly preserved, still unopened bottle of Gin Fizz with its packaging from 1960 fell into my hands at the antiques market in Nice. Just looking at the bright yellow balloons and the funny ornate writing on the white cardboard, the whole lightness of this era, which I only know from films, blew towards me. Young Brigitte Bardot in a puffy summer dress in St Tropez, Grace Kelly in a Mercedes sports car on the Grande Corniche, wearing a pink top with a white pattern - or Cécile, the young, vicious main character from "Bonjour Tristesse".
But back to modern times: After my holidays, everything fell on my nerves in the office without exception, but really everything, so much of it, I needed lightness, a good mood and a reward - and without further ado I blindly ordered "Lipstick on" from Margiela on the Internet during my lunch break.
The original imprint "Chicago 1952" on the bottle had taken a fancy to me. And "replica"! Would "Lipstick on" bring me back the scent from the time of the blonde Hitchcock heroines? Marnie? Or Eve Kendall?

Oh, dear. None of it. "Lipstick" on opens with a woody rose, not bad, not too sweet, quite pleasant. As in Guerlain's "Little Black", soon after the rose a syrupy cherry liqueur comes out, which even has something mandelious and gourmandish about it.
Margiela, you can't do this!
Noooooo, it's screaming inside me, that's exactly what I didn't want. I didn't want a pseudomodic petite-robe-noir-voice in retro-design, I wanted an old, sticky 50's kitsch-fragrance. Such a mixture of kidney table, bag lamp and Marilyn Monroe with sticky red lips in "Niagara". And what does Margiela mix with me? A modern rose cherry brandy.
I did the cross check with Lipstick Rose by Ralf Schwieger (Malle). That's a sticky, authentic lipstick smell! It's got violets, raspberries, white musk. And it holds like Pattex on the skin. Although it is difficult to endure after repeated use, Lipstick Rose is without doubt a successful chemical experiment. Especially the wax note is perfect.
No, "Lipstick on", on the other hand, is not a perfume for dreaming with which you can go on a journey through time to the chic blondes of the 50s. It is modern and anchored in the present. If you want a good fragrance with roses, wood and cherry, you are well served, it is absolutely not a bad perfume. But neither 1952 nor lipstick has anything to do with it.
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Helpful Review 20  
Avon rings
These words immediately bring to mind the image of the Avon consultant in the pink/purple Chanel-inspired costume from Edward with the Scissor Hands. But they really did exist, the Avon consultants of the early 90s. My mum was one of them (though without the costume)

She also always had little lipstick samples like that for her clients or those who (supposedly) wanted to be. Quite this window of my life and the mini lipsticks immediately come to mind when I put Lipstick on. That's quite an accomplishment because I must not have thought about it for almost 20 years.

Maison Margiela has done here so for me whole work. The durability and sillage are also in the upper range. Now I may watch as I come to a cheap restflakon, because the fragrance is probably unfortunately no longer produced. If I am misinformed, please correct me.
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Quite realistic looking lipstick impression. Waxy iris with fruity support of raspberry. Unfortunately discontinued...
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