Annabel's Birthday Cake

Annabel's Birthday Cake by Marissa Zappas
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8.4 / 10 12 Ratings
A popular perfume by Marissa Zappas for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is gourmand-synthetic. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Gourmand
Synthetic
Creamy
Floral
Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Lemon sugarLemon sugar HeliotropeHeliotrope
Heart Notes Heart Notes
CakeCake RoseRose TuberoseTuberose
Base Notes Base Notes
HoneycombHoneycomb Roasted tonka beanRoasted tonka bean Cocoa absoluteCocoa absolute

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
8.412 Ratings
Longevity
7.88 Ratings
Sillage
6.39 Ratings
Bottle
8.111 Ratings
Submitted by Chizza, last update on 03/17/2025.

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Mlleghoul

427 Reviews
Mlleghoul
Mlleghoul
3  
the elusive flowering cake vine
I tell you what, for the longest time, for years, I was like no, no sweets or gourmands for me, thanks, not my thing! And now it’s weird, it’s basically all I want. And yet…I don’t actually want to smell like literal cake. Like a baked good. Yes, the smell of glaze drizzled atop freshly fried hot doughnuts is mouthwatering, but I just don’t want that to be the scent that clings to my clothes or that precedes my bod with I walk into a room. I don’t want the smell of leavening agents or the chemistry of eggs and flour and sugar, or really even, a sweet, fluffy crumb. Simply put, I don’t want to smell like food. I want the artistic rendering of cake, a cake run through the filters of someone’s imagination and maybe in the end it’s not really cake at all, but still... you know it when you smell it. Annabel’s Birthday Cake is a bit like this. This is the fragrance from the elusive flowering cake vine, a rare species of flora that only blooms once a year on the date of one’s birth, pearly pink petals that exude the scent of rich, fruity vanilla bean and heliotrope frosting and closes after a brief 12-hour window with a soft, powdery breath of white chocolate musk.
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5
Pricing
10
Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Ocelots

3 Reviews
Ocelots
Ocelots
2  
the latex note says it all
i love this fragrance. i'm a huge enjoyer of Zappas' work and this was my introduction. this is a beautiful reimagined birthday cake, painting a whole scene rather than making the cake edible. i used to hate gourmands, but now i realize they just need to be balanced with a fun note. this is an indulgent, hyperrealistic and poppy perfume for those who cried on their birthdays. the heliotrope i can imagine being tubed as petals onto the cake, helium filled ballons behind a young girl pouting, as the floral and zesty vanilla frosting rots teeth. it is not easily wearable and for that i appreciate it; you wont smell like anyone else!
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7
Pricing
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Saturnalis

35 Reviews
Saturnalis
Saturnalis
2  
Happy birthday!
Lemon drizzle everywhere. Silky vanilla sponge cake (caught slightly in the oven) persists throughout. Candied and fresh petals, red and white, scattered about. Coolness of rubber balloons. Paper plates and plastic cutlery, seats and fold-away tables. Doll-head-almond of heliotrope. Distantly cocoa-ish, later feels more like a white chocolate. The presence of women; teachers, mothers, grandmothers, aunts. Extremely specific in its imagery. Somehow restrained in its sweetness in spite of the notes. Fun!
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Byrehoe

174 Reviews
Byrehoe
Byrehoe
2  
clownquette
Sweet and moody, strange and twinkly. There’s no box-mix funfetti to this cake. It’s waxy marzipan fondant, topped with honeycomb and desiccated rose petals. The cake itself is lemony, layered with custard. And the crown jewel: that telltale squeak of latex. It’s very sugar-and-spice, but not so innocent. The whole fragrance has this hazy vintage tone and feels rather melancholy. Very haunted porcelain doll, very Tim Burton love interest. Very sexy sad clown. Adorable, but unstable. Pairs well with cutting your own bangs and singing along to Imogen Heap in a Vegas hotel bathroom. (Not that I’d have such experience).

Mental Snapshot: It's the little heiress's birthday party, all frilly tablecloths and gilded candelabras. A harlequin damsel jingles about, bound to serve the wicked Don Montresor. She’s in her full Carnival press: white paint, rouge, ruffed particolour velvet. The family pampers her well, but there's scarcely any blush to her nose or honk to her shoes. Shouldn’t have gone to clown school.

tl;dr: clownquette
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10
Scent
Redrot

25 Reviews
Redrot
Redrot
2  
melancholy memory of a birthday party
Such a special scent. Opening alternates between licks of lemon frosting and blowing up balloons. Definitely reminds me of those baby dolls with squishy hollow rubber heads. Then it dries to a warm cocoa powder scent. It's very feminine, but feels wearable to me (a not very femme person). It's delicate and hazy but there's something dark beneath. I get a tiny bit of mildew beneath all the loveliness, like a family photo album ruined in a flood.
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JulieDammitJulieDammit 2 months ago
6
Sillage
7.5
Scent
from decant. expected sickly gourmand + PVC outgassing. got soft powdery vanilla floral with subtle, just-a-hint-of-weird lightning ozone
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StnicholasStnicholas 5 months ago
Latex, delicate florals, and cacao brought together to evoke gauzy sunlight and white frosting straight from the tub.
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