Bond No. 9 Lafayette Street dupes — ranked by Reddit consensus
The most agreed-upon dupe for Bond No. 9 Lafayette Street is Jo Milano Game of Spades Wildcard, the highest-ranked alternative by community consensus.
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Ranked alternatives
| # | Fragrance | Bucket | Evidence | Consensus | Buy |
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| 01 | Game of Spades Wildcard Jo Milano |
| 102 voices · 108 threads | 100 |
What Reddit says
A sample of what people actually wrote, under the summary of it. The voice counts are the whole of the evidence behind a pairing; the quotes are a handful of the loudest, each one a link to the comment it came from.
Game of Spades WildcardJo Milano
102 voices · 108 threads
- Most reviewers consider Wildcard an extremely close, accurate alternative to Lafayette Street at a fraction of the original's retail price.
- Users note slight differences, with the original perceived as sweeter while the clone opens with a stronger almond note.
- A few dissenters disagree with the hype, reporting that it smells nothing like the original to their nose.
Where people agree
“game of spades WILDCARD (Lafayette street)”
reddit post ↗“Just cop this. Smells EXACTLY like it. Even more than Club De Nuit Sillage smells like Creed's Silver Mountain Water. 50 bucks compared to 450 dollars (retail)???”
reddit post ↗“Game of Spades Wildcard vs Lafayette Street – Got this one right but damn this was close. I think the OG is more sweet and the GoSW leans more almond in the opening but wow. I think Jo Milano hit this one out of the park and I’ll wearing th”
reddit post ↗“Jo Milano Game of Spades Wildcard (Clone of Bond no 9 Lafayette Street)”
reddit post ↗“Jo Malone Game of Spades Wildcard (Bond No. 9 Lafayette street clone) - I managed to snag this for a good deal and decided to pull the trigger even though I hadn't put my nose to the original. This is as good as everyone says it is.”
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Where people disagree
“GoS Wildcard was the blind buy that drove me to do this because it smelled nothing like Lafayette Street (which I loved) despite every influencer and review saying it did”
reddit post ↗“wildcard smells like play-doh to me. And I’ve smelled Lafayette street and loved it.”
reddit ↗“Absolute fucking lie. It's this line that got me to buy this garbage and it's an utter fabrication. I own both and Wild Card fragrance went in the trash.”
reddit ↗“I own Lafayette Street and even if this clone didnt come close, I wouldnt be making this post unless it smelled horrible. But it does smell horrible.”
reddit ↗“Smells like fucking trash my guy. Not 1:1 at all.”
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Also a dupe of
The originals people say this bottle imitates, counted the same way as everything else here: each line is the number of separate people who made that claim in a real Reddit thread.
| # | Original | Evidence | Also ranked |
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| 01 | Sculpture Nikos “apparently Bond no9 Lafayette street smells like this (I made sure to put that in the correct order 😅)” | 29 voices · 32 threadssimilar vibe | Best spinoff |
| 02 | Plus Plus Masculine Diesel “designer version that was inspired by Diesel Plus Plus if you ask me which is Bond No. 9 Lafayette St. I own both, the Game of Spades is 1/4 the price on Bond No 9 and at least to me the silage and projection is much better both smell nearly identical to Diesel.” | 2 voices · 1 threadvery close | — |
| 03 | Desire Alfred Dunhill “Lafayette street smells like a clone of Dunhill desire edt but better performance.” | 2 voices · 2 threadsidentical | Best value |