Hawas Malibu

* Hawas Original and Club de Nuit Intense had a baby together * Great fresh/fruit hybrid fragrance * Nice tropical fruit take on the Hawas formula * Great blend of fruity, citrus, floral, vanilla, amber, powdery and musky aromas * Prominent notes of pineapple, citrus, lavender, vanilla and fresh patchouli musk * Great for those who dislike the birch note in Aventus and Club de Nuit Intense * Refreshing and invigorating * Great for both older and younger users * Superb for warm weather and outdoor usage * Great performer * Might be too sweet for some users * Not unisex Hawas Malibu is a flanker in the ever popular and ever expanding Hawas line. This is a great take on that formula, blending it in seamlessly with the Club de Nuit Intense DNA and removing the birchwood note from it. The result is a hybrid fresh and fruit fragrance that comes off like the love child of Hawas and Club de Nuit Intense. It really is a tropical take on the Hawas DNA thanks to the strong and extremely fresh pineapple and citrus aromas. You'll also detect prominent notes of vanilla, lavender, and fresh patchouli musk in there as well. Overall a great blend of fruity, citrus, floral, vanilla, amber, powdery and musky aromas. This is refreshing and invigorating and will work great in warmer weather and during outdoor activity use. It's great for both older and younger users though there is a touch of sweetness that may turn off those who dislike sweet fragrances. The birch note associated with Club de Nuit Intense (which it apes from the popular Aventus which it clones) is noticeably absent which will please those who dislike that note. Performance is great and is the icing on the cake. Highly recommended.

An obscenely vibrant lavender and pineapple opening for me post-maceration. Overall, a very green, punchy, musky and powdery scent profile with a smooth vanilla-tonka dry-down later on. Decent projection within the first 3 hours or so. Every now and then, i catch a hint of hawas ice in this fragrance which works in its favour. There's a slight unlisted note of coconut, but i don't get much of that or the orange note listed. This is an amazing fresh fragrance for the price, its a pineapple-citrus fragrance that doesn't just feel like another Creed Aventus clone. It doesn't smell that similar to JPG Le Beau le parfum (despite the bottle presentation, of which is really nice but is an absolute fingerprint magnet), or Hawas Tropical. They are two completely different fragrances, with the heavy coconut note being completely absent from this fragrance. Also, this is not a unisex fragrance, it leans much more masculine. Regardless, this is a pretty mass appealing fragrance. It's sweetness might be able to work in the cold, but I wouldn't blind buy it if I was in a country constantly trapped in the winter. Hawas Malibu is a really fun, more mature take on JPG Le beau le parfum. Wear this to a beach day-out, afternoon market or school. 5 sprays is all you really need. (I couldn't mention this in detail, but the lavender note is really prominent, more than the pineapple for me. The woody accord became much more prominent with the maceration, and i generally noticed much greater longevity after maceration. I noted a slight 'rotting fruit' smell in the opening, which goes away after the initial blast. Highly recommend.)

This juice is nice, the bottle is really high quality, heavy and the cap is firm and heavy, and a good atomizer. This fragrance does what i thought both le beaus would do for me, and also purple melancholia, which I own a 50 ml of and enjoy. This opens with a juicier fruit that sticks around for a while, it dials down the creaminess of purple melancholia, dials down the coconut, and it doesn’t go too sweet with the tonka, but it all blends into a very tropical feeling scent, maybe a bit too dense for high heat, but on a summer night this would be killer, I like that the fruitiness sticks around and keeps it from being jsut like a suntan lotion kind of smell, the warm fruity tonka is a really nice blend. This is actually also very similar to cool water intense, another one in this lane I enjoy, I like when these tropical kinda scents have that amber/ amberwood in the base, it adds to much depth to it, makes it smell like a beach vacation evening. This was a blind buy success, $40 from Burlington. I don’t usually like dupes but hawas got some heat I can’t lie, high quality stuff.

Absolute banger! I held off on purchasing Malibu because I already own tropical, but this one is sooo good and is different enough to justify owning both. If you're debating between tropical and malibu, I'd recommend malibu over tropical unless you really want a coconut forward scent. Malibu is easily a top 3 from hawas and I own almost every single men's hawas. I would say this is blind buy safe. Scent profile is 9/10, this projects hard for a solid 5 hours and lasts a good 10 to 12 hours before it's a skin scent. The bottle looks great too. I don't get the powdery dry down other have mentioned. I get a nice musky dry down with lavender, tonka bean and some grapefruit from the opening. Highly recommend hawas Malibu

Tested 1ml and overall, I love it. Since it is a bottle color / look and scent profile from the JPG line of nice products, I may eventually get this instead of JPG, to save money. I am also testing the Tropical scent, which I favour more for the Spring & Summer, a sweeter, bursting scent of tropical fruit. This is a good scent for office and for me it has a nice mix of lavender, grapefruit, and pineapple with a light musky dry down - not as fruity as Tropical, which also has coconut and lasts much longer for me. I can see getting a bottle eventually, due to its nice and unique smell.