Maybe Baby

This review is for the vintage 2003 bottle of Maybe Baby. This perfume is nothing like the cheap reformulated synthetic fragrance that Benefit deemed acceptable to resurrect after countless requests by loyal die hards. They should have let people dream of the perfume that it was and be happy with their memories. This is just beautiful! It opens with juicy fruity apricot and a blast of spicy ginger, the heart is floral, fresh and delicious and the finale is an orchestra of gorgeous peach, flowers and a touch of musk. Why oh why do they have to turn a masterpiece into an olfactory mishmash of cheap synthetic notes fit for 12 year old teeny boppers? Longevity is amazing for an EDT as it lasts for hours, Silage is just enough to be noticed I shall savour each and every drop of this rare gem and shall mourn its passing when it is finally gone.

Side-by-side comparison of Maybe Baby by Benefit and L (L.A.M.B.) by Gwen Stefani I'm using a new bottle of Maybe Baby (ordered directly from Benefit) and a bottle of L (ordered from eBay), one spray on each wrist. So, on my skin anyway... For the first ten minutes, I enjoyed the top notes of L more (sweeter, more pear than apricot/peach). For the next half hour, Maybe Baby seemed better composed (ginger lingers, and pleasing overall). Then at the hour mark, Maybe Baby was fading fast while L was going strong with its sweeter fruitiness (and if anything, I sprayed more Maybe Baby than L). Worn alone, I have a hard time telling these two apart. But side-by-side, L performs better on my skin and I slightly prefer its pear-sweetness. But both are favorites :)

I have had this gem for many years and don't wear it as often now I'm older, though still do sometimes. This is a beautiful soft, creamy lychee and cyclamen scent that is naturally sweet with a slight powdery drydown from the poppy and musk. One of the few perfumes where the peach note is blended in subtly. This is a light, bright, bubble-bath clean delicious scent that is unusual and makes you feel happy. The sillage is moderate but, for a subtle clean scent the longevity is remarkably good. I would say this is an extremely safe blind buy, not because it is generic as it's not, rather it is a scent that would be very hard to dislike.

i first used this fragrance in 2004. i was a fan for bathina line and this fragrance had similar scent. was sad to hear this was discontinued. its a soapy, musky scent that dry down into powdery musk. its a unique blend i loved it so much. its available again in some benefit counters for a limited time. they changed the bottle. i really loved the old bottle it was different and unique. the new one is just a simple slender bottle with a plastic cap. not impressed. buy hey, since its the same scent i shouldn't complain. go get a sniff before it disappear again.

I just got this....and it’s perfect. I LOVED L.A.M.B by Gwen Stefani. I am seriously still heart broken that it was discontinued, and I’ve had bad luck ordering it from eBay. The last bottle of LAMB I bought was bad, and the 1.7 oz. I do have is only broken out for special occasions. I was seriously skeptical that this was going to smell like it, but I gave it a go. At first spray it smelled a tad different, but the dry down is exactly the same scent! My heart is happy! Thanks to all the ladies who commented on it😊

I am so glad I was able to get my hands on a bottle recently. I've been smitten with it for several years but wasn't sure I could commit. It is a very ladylike fruity floral that has a heavy hand of lily of the valley-ishness that can be mistaken for simple.Truely a complex blend of unique flowers like cyclamen (which I tend to be a pushover for) and litchi and apricot turn this into a girly cocktail of mischief fit for girls between 20 and 30 something.

I went through a whole bottle of this in my early/mid twenties, and I loved it. I never got a really fruity smell from it, I thought it just smelled fresh and clean, and I would douche myself in it before leaving the house. Now that I see that some of the notes are peach and apricot (yum!) I can understand why I liked it so much. Used to get so many compliments, I can't believe I have forgotten about it!

I haven't been lucky enough to own this before it was discontinued, but was lucky enough to test it a while back. Just a TEST :( LOL BUT I just bought an AMAZING dupe on etsy (handmade site) and I'm in LOVE. The dupe actually smells nicer from what I remember of the real thing. My hubby, and even my young son's love it too! lol

This was the only perfume I wore when I was 18. My best friend and I went on a spontaneous road trip, and when I sprayed Maybe Baby in the hotel room she said it was, "like, the best smelling perfume in the world." She was right!

If you need to smell this heavenly again, I highly recommend trying Glossier Fleur! The moment I smelt it I was transported back to Maybe Baby and the Bathina body balm. So nostalgic and comforting.

Not true Manevitt. I bought it here in the UK from a well known department store just a few weeks ago. Very well stocked. Only the packaging has changed, and you can only get it in 50ml.

I desperately need this to come back or someone to dupe it. I loved this and would kill to smell like this again. I wouldn’t mind going back to this day & age, too. ;)

It is girly, gentle, soft smell. It just gets what it says maybe baby. I have no complaint for it, just hoping to find a similar adorable scent that will last longer.

Ageletou, it can be bought in the UK from Boots, there is a matching mody cream set available too. I love the scent in Spring :)

to ageletou, yes this fragrance is discontinued long time ago. but its available for limited time i a different bottle.

This smells like those lychee jelly cups you find at Asian grocery stores. The best, Jerry, the best!

I love this! It's warm, fresh and cozy at the same time. Too bad the staying power is so poor.

Love it!!!!!!!!! Sweety, lovely, fruity especially I can smell of peach... It lasts not short.

According to their website, Maybe Baby will be returning in mid-August! <3

i wear when i want to smell super fruity, i get ginger and peaches, nice.

One of my very favorites. It's tragic that it's discontinued.

When I first purchased this I thought to myself: oh no. I'm a fool for letting the SA trick me into buying this. But I wore it out dancing several nights and I was surprised to see how many compliments I received about the perfume. It was quite nice, really. I mean, at first sniff, I thought the scent was ok...because there was a note in there that I did not recognize until now. (It was the ginger. I had never smelled ginger in perfume before). There was nothing special about it to me. Apparently there were men who thought otherwise. When I moved away from home, I left the bottle with my mom. I recently went back to visit her and realized that she still had it, but it was half gone. I used it the whole time I was there (in Hawaii). Now I think it's sexy. Young, hip, sexy, and surprisingly alluring. It sparkles to me and almost makes me feel like a bad girl. *wink* I definitely get the ginger...which brings a somewhat exotic appeal to the fragrance. It's warm and spicy and makes me want to say "Meeeeeoow". I don't usually like the smell of apricot, because to my nose, I get an indescribable scent that I just refer to as "stink"...but in this perfume, it actually adds to the sex appeal. I love it. The bergamot and the lychee, I think, create that wonderful sparkle, and the musk makes me feel confident. I think this fragrance can make you seem more confident than you normally are, but that's definitely NOT a bad thing. The scent lures your "prospects" in, but it's up to you to decide what you want to do with them (IF you even want to do anything with them at all). The name of the perfume is perfect: "Maybe baby..."

Well I finally received a bottle of this that still smells good! This is my fourth attempt and first successful one to buy it. The first three I purchased second hand as it has been discontinued in the older round bottle. I actually used to have this and stupidly sold it. One of those things you do sometimes and then regret it. So the first three smelt absolutely awful and I spent a fortune on two of them. I had to throw them out. I think I felt I had committed to finding this in good condition especially as I knew it had been re released not that long ago so if I got one in the new bottle it likely still smelt okay. I was reluctant still as I feel that something about this fragrance means it probably does not last long considering I was unlucky three times in buying it. I am glad to have it but mindful of the short shelf life. Look, to be honest it is not so fantastic that I would recommend spending a fortune finding it if you cant get it easily. You can find similar fragrances such as the vibe you get from Dior's newer Miss Dior flankers but Dior is better. I don't think this smells like Lamb by Gwen to me or like Nicole Sherzinger's in particular at all. I recommend buying it in the newer bottle to avoid what happened to me and yes it is a pretty fragrance but nothing groundbreaking, it was more nostaligia for me.

Jenny0057 I completely agree - discontinuing the lotion was such a shame. It smelt nicer than the perfume and lasted longer too... Fruity but not sickly sweet [perhaps, as hbomb9410 mused, the bergamot, ginger and cyclamen do indeed prevent an attack of the cloying notes] in no way natural smelling but extremely smoothly blended and pleasing nonetheless. There is even a weirdly zingy note to it which further prevents it being over-sweet - again the ginger and/or bergamot? However, I feel about this as I do about their only-average makeup and rubbish skincare products - overpriced for too little payoff. I would worry about artificial chemical musk odour overload if repeatedly sprayed but if you dislike the domination of citrus, floral/herby or ozonic notes in most colognes you might consider this as a warm weather alternative due to the skilful way the bergamot and ginger are blended with fruity aspects. It's certainly nicer than the Body Shop body sprays which on me all dry-down to a horrible chemical fug.

This perfume is one I like but it is lacking in identity. To my nose there are no standout notes I can detect but nevertheless it is a nice fragrance. This would be perfect as a gift for someone who does not like anything loud or strong. I would describe it as being light, young and feminine. I do like the Benefit brand and I want to try more of their range. I like to wear any of my perfumes at any time but this one is difficult to categorise. It does not remind me of any particular season but would be a great smell for work when you don't want to stand out from the crowd. I don't like to blend into the background but if I was having such a day, I would wear this! That sounds quite negative but it is not meant to be, it is nothing special but just okay.

Really like this one, perfect for spring/summer time and the office...I personally find it very original, I have never tested any other fragrance that would remind me of it. It is sparkling, fresh but not too fresh not to sweet but fruity...it makes me think of a glass of champaigne on a breezy summer evening. I completely agree with the ladies saying that it is a shame that there is no more lotion, because that one was indeed better than the parfume itself and lasted longer. Benefit makes some sort of body balm now called Bathina that smells pretty much the same, although not as strong as the lotion, I still enjoy it though, maybe you ladies can give it a try

For me this is a nostalgia fragrance. It reminds me of being in high school and feeling ahead of the curve as far as makeup and personal fragrance goes. I still have a couple ounces from the same bottle I had from high school (2005) (and actually it reminds me of another benefit product, Dr. Feelgood which they discontinued and then brought back) I think it's a pretty, girly, young scent. Like others have said very stone-fruit forward with very little else going on (I find the ginger undetectable). I don't think I'd ever wear this again, except on days where I felt like I needed a reminder of high school.

I've had my bottle of Maybe Baby since probably 2003 or 2004, and it still smells just the way I remember it. I wore this a lot in high school and I remember thinking it smelled so flirty and girly, and I still think it does! It's a little sweet from the nectarine, peach, and lychee (I think the lychee is just as prominent as the nectarine/ peach), but the combination of notes doesn't smell like literal fruit. It's also pretty powdery, and has a quality that reminds me of champagne-- a kind of light booziness. It feels a bit like an abstracted portrait of a classic Hollywood starlet to me.

L by Gwen Stefani is my signature so I was curious how close it really is to Maybe Baby. I purchased an old fat bottle of Maybe Baby to compare and the verdict is....they're very similar! If you took the sharp ginger punch away from Maybe Baby and added a pear sweetness they'd be the same. Maybe Baby skews almost sour/citrusy with that ginger punch. L is a sweeter, warmer, less tart version of MB. The ginger and apricot notes are very apparent and seem sharp, even in the dry down. I'll have to see how close new Maybe Baby is to the old now.

I love this perfume. I am 19 and wanted a light perfume for every day office wear for summer. It is so well priced at £19.50 and binds really well to my skin. I have acidic skin and some perfumes turn into a horrible synthetic or mildew smell after about and hour but this sits close and when I hugged my friend she said I smelt amazing. I am a sucker for lily of the valley as well as other signiture femminine, soft notes. The perfect summer pefume

I really like this one. It's a very interesting fragrance because the base contains peach. While this is a peachy, fruity scent, it is not peachy and fresh in the way that Annick Goutal Petite Cherie is. I would say this scent seems warmer and richer because of the musk. It's relatively light and I think it's a good pick for day/night or warm/cold. A versatile scent. I can't stand and can't wear Tresor. This is a much better alternative.

I first smelled Maybe Baby, in Parkson's Grand dep store in Kuala Lumpur,and it was sooo fresh, but soft in the same time, i just had to have it,,although I saw afterwards that's there is no apple in it, on my skin smells like apples and cream,, wonderfull fragrance for the summer mornings you want to wear white light clothes(I am greek, as you know,during summer, everyones wears almost total white!!)

Very peachy, nectarine sweet! Not gourmand-y sweet; rather juicy, watery, florally sweet. Reminds me very much of Jennifer Lopez Love & Glamour, due to the nectarine. It's a safe scent, but also has a fun, young, flirty quality. Baby also radiates a few inches off of the skin to remind you it's there with a fruity freshness. It's a mood pick me up and seems very appropriate for warm weather.

Maybe Baby is a girlish charming scent. Ginger vs. the delicious litchi, peach, the apricot, not very sofisticatied but do have a certain kind of oomph. It has an airy quality which makes it never fades too quickly on skin. Longevity is beyond imagination, I can still smell it on my coat sleeves on the second day. If you want to smell like a nice tender girl, give it a shot.

Around the time that I got into VS Bombshell perfume, I had simultaneously became obsessed with this one as well as Gwen Stefani's Lamb. I still have an old bottle of L and I think in the long run I would prefer L over Maybe Baby. But they are both pretty akin to one another. Also Maybe Baby has something very coquette-ish about it meaning in the best possible way.

I'm new to Fragrantica but had to write in my two cents on this fragrance. I always got compliments whenever I wore it! I can't describe notes and such as eloquently as other users on the site, but considering Maybe Baby never gave me a headache (but got me compliments) it's a winner. I love the Benefit brand...both makeup & fragrance.

This reminds me very much of Antonia's Flowers Floret, although it's definitely thinner and weaker. Most likely I would like Maybe Baby more if I'd never owned Floret, but, because of this, Maybe Baby smells like something it's not. It is very, very pretty, though.

Bought it because of the good reviews. It is not bad but it didn ́t smell as good as I thought. Lemons and florals but nothing special. It doesn ́t stay very long, but the base notes are sweet and not musky in a man perfume way.

This smells like pure lily of the valley on me. Interesting because it's not even listed in the notes. I wish I got some of the notes here instead. This is too linear for me, and too close to being like air freshener.

Such a sweet, girly fragrance, but it has no longevity to speak of. I think the ginger, cyclamen and bergamot keep it from smelling like candy. It's pretty affordable, so I just use it as a body spray.

Confirm. I bought it yesterday in Edinburgh. Unfortunately I couldn't find the body lotion.

Confirm. I bought it yesterday in Edinburgh. Unfortunately I couldn't find the body lotion.

Very fruity, very peachy. That's about all I get from this. This is a very linear fruit bomb. I wish it had more musk to balance out the sharp fruitiness of it. I feel like it's missing an element to bring in some warmth. I detect zero powdery dry down. I have the 2021 version so maybe it's changed? Overall it's not bad but not something I would wear often.

I bought this scent when I was in a rush after just sniffing the tester bottle. On the tester bottle it smelt really fresh, which is the kind of fragrance I usually like, but when I wore it all I could smell was very strong peach which reminded me a little of air refreshener. However, everyone complimented me on it and my boyfriend loves it. I am very undecided on this scent.

To me this is a light artificial floral with no real ups and downs. It also didn't stay on my skin long.

Got my bottle of this today which was a total blind buy based on good reviews on lots of websites - also I fancied a juicy peachy scent. So, first spray and - whoa, loud, sharp, fruity (I'm thinking this could be a big mistake) PEAR DROPS!!!!! That is how it smells to me right now. Not keen on the initial blast. So I go about my day, sniffing occasionally, this feels familiar, maybe I know someone who wears this or it smells like something else........its getting peachier, softer, maybe with a little soapy apple. It reminds me a bit of Clinique's Happy but without the headache inducing high note that Happy gives me. Also similar to Jo Malone's Pear & Freesia scent but softer (to me). After an hour or more I am left with a peach skin scent which has that true slighty bitter peach/apricot stone note that I really like. Not sure it warrants the many over zealous reviews though. I shall try again over the next few days before I make final judgement. Update: After 3 days I have decided that this really isn't for me - there's not enough about it that I like, the base (which IMO is the best bit) doesn't seem to last long on me & I feel I have to 'endure' the top notes which for me are too harsh :( I'll stick to my California Star Jasmine which is so much more natural smelling & easier to wear :) x

Ah, the memories of high school. 2005. I never wore this one... I was all over Escada Magnetism, Armani Code, Diamonds, Valentino Rock & Rose in the noughts. But my specific memory is of this beautiful freckled red-headed girl I was friends with briefly; she wore Maybe Baby every day. She kept the biggest bottle in her tote, and she over-sprayed it like a madwoman. It was such an aura on her! And it was so suitable for her as a very joyful, positive, and colorful person with passion for life. Maybe Baby matched her smile and vivacious character. I just remember her pulling out that big bulbous bottle one day when someone asked what she was wearing! It's just a bright, fruity scent. Perhaps it's nothing by today's standards, but the nostalgia makes it meaningful. I remember it smelling a bit hairspray-ish, which I find ginger notes can render that way sometimes, especially back then. The lychee and apricot were ever-present. Oh, to go back in time.

Maybe Baby was gifted to me during a very heartbreaking time in my life. The thought was that it would cheer me up. It was a very nice gesture, and it truly is a delightful scent. For me, this is a "cheerful" scent. I love the opening with its juicy apricot, spicy ginger and seemingly graceful floral. Once I get past the opening I have a difficult time determining the notes. But that is okay because I like it, it has decent silage, and surprisingly lasts throughout the day. I do have to be careful not to over spray or Maybe Baby seems obviously overdone. I LoVe the bottle...makes me smile every time I pick it up! For those of you who might not know what is written on the bottle: "is this seat taken? haven't we met before? going my way? do you want to know a secret? should we? do you dare? wouldn't you like to? want some more company? promise not to tell? am I dreaming? are you kidding? dinner tonight? remember me?...Maybe Baby"

Oh man, I love yet loathe this fragrance. Maybe Baby is a sweet and yummy fragrance. On me, it's very peachy and I love the litchi and poppy notes. It's soft yet kinda sexy when the white musk kicks in. It's an all around pleasant fragrance if you like sweet, fresh, fruity and sparkly types of scents. Why do I loathe it? My ex-fiance gave this fragrance to me, and needless to say.. it was not a pleasant break up for reasons that had to do with his chosen course of behavior. It will never cease to amaze me how sense of smell is so closely linked with memory, probably more so than any of our other senses are. Scent evokes particular memories that act as a trigger of sorts in recalling a long-forgotten events or experiences. Every time I smell Maybe Baby I see red, and unfortunately I just can't get past relating this otherwise fabulous fragrance to him, and it ticks me off. I just simply can't wear it anymore... Sad but true.

First of all, I had no idea that Benefit had brought this back until today!! I've been wearing it since it came out, and when I went to buy a refill in late 2015 I saw a few bottles on Amazon and that was it. I was heartbroken! No fragrance has ever suited my skin so perfectly. And most of my regular fragrances fall in and out of favor with me, but this one never has. I've been trying for a year to find a suitable substitute and I never have, so I'm THRILLED I can buy a bottle today! That said, for anyone interested, Tony Moly has an adorable line of solid perfumes in different scents, and the one in the pink bunny (#3 Dodo Rose) is a dupe! It doesn't last super long, but it's inexpensive and fared better than I was expecting. Plus you'll have a cute pink bunny to carry around in your purse. :) I got mine at Urban Outfitters for $12.