Rasasi Hawas Malibu

You can buy the genuine Rasasi Hawas Malibu straight from FragranceNet.com. The real bottle comes first; the accessible alternatives below are there if you'd rather spend less.

Rasasi Hawas Malibu opens with Grapefruit, Bergamot and Lemon; a heart of Cardamom, Nutmeg and Jasmine; drying down to Amber, Woods and Musk, from notes FragranceX publishes. Those notes read as citrus, floral, spicy, amber, woody, musky, the coarse families FragranceX cites. How it wears depends on your skin and the concentration. We only publish notes and accords we can trace to a source.

The genuine Rasasi Hawas Malibu runs $46.89 at FragranceNet.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them.

We rank the "smells-like" alternatives to Hawas Malibu by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Hawas Malibu, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

Rasasi Hawas Malibu is listed as a men's fragrance by the retailer. That's a marketing label, not a rule: fragrance has no gender, and plenty of "men's" scents are worn by anyone. We show how it's sold and leave the wearing to you.

Al Haramain Haramain Loulou Rose (shares Nutmeg, Lemon, Amber); Armaf Club De Nuit Iconic (shares Nutmeg, Grapefruit, Lemon); Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision (shares Woods, Grapefruit, Cardamom). These share specific notes with Hawas Malibu, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Hawas Malibu's cited notes they actually share, weighting rarer notes heavier than ubiquitous ones. Each is its own fragrance with real, sourced notes, not a copy of Hawas Malibu, and has its own page.

Hawas Malibu reads as citrus, floral, spicy, amber, woody, musky. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Tiziana Terenzi Afrodite, lattafa Ajwad and Lattafa Al Noble Safeer nearby. We rank them by how many of Hawas Malibu's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Hawas Malibu, and each has its own page.