community-sourced dupes · ranked on agreement
The dupes
people
agree on.
Every original,
every clone,
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01 · what was read
11.9 million comments. Two subreddits in.
r/fragranceclones and r/FemFragLab were ingested as a whole175,000 posts, and 2.9 million comments were analyzedReddit discussions about which perfume smells like which oneTurned into a knowledge graph
- comments collected
- 11,904,757
- comments searched
- 2,921,379
- threads analysed
- 33,427
02 · what was counted
34,831 people already answered this.
A ranking here is a count of separate people who independently named the same dupe while talking about something else — each one still traceable to the comment that made it.
- claims extracted
- 186,111
- comments cited
- 117,909
- pairings ranked
- 2,986
Originals
The bottles most people are trying to replace, with the dupe the community names first.
| # | Brand | Fragrance | Top dupe | Dupes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Creed | Aventus | Club de Nuit Intense Man | 235 | open → |
| 02 | Maison Francis Kurkdjian | Baccarat Rouge 540 | Club de Nuit Untold | 172 | open → |
| 03 | Louis Vuitton | Imagination | Imaginary | 145 | open → |
| 04 | Chanel | Bleu de Chanel | Club de Nuit Iconic | 110 | open → |
| 05 | Dior | Sauvage | Modest Une | 95 | open → |
| 06 | Kilian | Angels' Share | Kismet Angel for men | 90 | open → |
| 07 | Parfums de Marly | Layton | Detour Noir | 79 | open → |
| 08 | Bvlgari | Le Gemme Tygar | Turathi Blue | 74 | open → |
| 09 | Tom Ford | Lost Cherry | Lovely Cherie | 73 | open → |
| 10 | Yves Saint Laurent | Y Eau de Parfum | Fakhar Black EDP | 59 | open → |
| 11 | Paco Rabanne | Invictus | Alhambra Victorioso EDP | 58 | open → |
| 12 | Xerjoff | Erba Pura | Amber Oud Gold Edition | 56 | open → |
| 13 | Le Labo | Santal 33 | Woody Sandalwood | 50 | open → |
| 14 | Maison Margiela | Replica By the Fireplace | Ameer Al Oudh Intense Oud | 48 | open → |
One original. Three answers.
Because “what's the best dupe” depends on what you are optimising for.
Most accurate
The clone people say smells closest to the original, judged on how often they call it a match.
Best value
The honest recommendation when eighty percent of the scent for twenty percent of the price is enough.
Best spinoff
Not a one-to-one clone. Same skeleton, taken somewhere else, for people who want their own thing.
Houses
Who gets chased, and who does the chasing. Counted across every pairing in the universe.
auckland museum · cc by 2.0Most chased
- 01Tom Ford535 pairings56 bottles
- 02Creed519 pairings27 bottles
- 03Louis Vuitton484 pairings28 bottles
- 04Parfums de Marly475 pairings28 bottles
- 05Yves Saint Laurent384 pairings35 bottles
- 06Dior370 pairings46 bottles
- 07Maison Francis Kurkdjian309 pairings21 bottles
Doing the chasing
- 01Lattafa948 pairings352 bottles
- 02Fragrance World486 pairings389 bottles
- 03Maison Alhambra474 pairings309 bottles
- 04Armaf456 pairings226 bottles
- 05Paris Corner403 pairings326 bottles
- 06Afnan254 pairings84 bottles
- 07Montagne242 pairings211 bottles