Only about one in five popular fragrances has a dupe that holds up.

Close match
20%
Near match
32%
Partial match
35%
Nothing listed
13%

Aventus against Club De Nuit Intense

CreedAventus€285
ArmafClub De Nuit Intense€44

Has 8 of Aventus’s 10 accords, at 15% of the price. Near match

Three bars for dominant, two for prominent, one for moderate. A red outline is a step the cheaper bottle lacks.

Accord strength of Creed Aventus and Armaf Club De Nuit Intense, strongest accords of Aventus first
AccordAventusClub De Nuit Intense
Fruity
Sweet
Citrus
Woody
Leather
Smoky
Musky
Fresh
Tropical
Mossy

Club De Nuit Intense has fruity and sweet a step lower, and no tropical or mossy accord. Citrus is much stronger on it. That makes it a near match, not a close one.

Every Aventus dupe we list

We took the popular fragrances in our catalogue that cost €70 or more and checked each one against every bottle from another house at half its price or less. A dupe holds up when it is a close match: most of the original’s accords, at about the same strength.

Catalogue as listed in November 2026. Prices are the listed prices then, not live.

See the dupes that hold up

The dupes that hold up

Close matches for the best-known fragrances, one row per fragrance line and at most two per house. Each cheaper bottle has at least three quarters of the original’s accords, is mostly made of them, and carries them at about the same strength. They typically cost less than a third of the original. Every dupe page lists the rest.

Near matches: close, but not quite

Best-known fragrances whose closest cheap bottle is a near match, one per line. It has the accords. What it misses is the balance: something that defines the original sits a step lower, or one of its signatures is not there at all.

Nothing at half the price makes the list

Best-known fragrances at €150 or more where no bottle at half the price is even a partial match. The nearest one is shown, with how much it shares, so you can see the gap.

Who makes the close matches

The share of all close matches made by each house, counted by the cheaper bottle. Maison Alhambra and Armaf between them make about three in ten.

How we measured

Every fragrance record lists its main accords, the broad character of the scent, and how strong each one is, in three steps: dominant, prominent or moderate. For each popular fragrance we looked at every bottle from another house that costs half as much or less and is made for the same audience, and asked three things.

  • Does it have most of the original’s accords? At least 75% of them.
  • Is it mostly made of those accords? At least 60% of its own accords have to be shared, so a bottle with a long list cannot cover a short profile by accident.
  • Are the shared accords about as strong? We compare the two strength profiles as a whole, and they have to line up at least 85%.

Each fragrance is then counted once, at the best its cheaper bottles reach:

Close match
passes all three. This is what we mean by a dupe that holds up.
Near match
passes the first two: the accords are there, the balance is not.
Partial match
clears only our lowest bar for a dupe page: at least 50% of the original’s accords, at least 50% of its own shared, and strength profiles that line up at least 70%.
Nothing listed
no bottle at half the price clears even that.

Prices are checked before anything is compared: a price that repeats across a whole house is a placeholder, and a price far below the rest of its own house is almost always a sample or a decant, so neither counts.

What this cannot tell you

  • We have not smelled these. Two bottles built on the same accords can still wear differently on skin, so treat a close match as a good reason to try a sample.
  • The catalogue covers the houses people search for most. A good dupe from a house we do not carry will not show up here.
  • Prices are the listed prices in November 2026, not live retailer prices.
  • Nobody paid to be on this page, and nobody can.

The full rules, the same ones every dupe page on the site runs on, are on how we pick dupes.

Every close and near match above links to its dupe page, where the same rules run against every bottle at half the price.

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