Considering the price differences, I should say The Tux (Tuxedo clone) and Oud for Glory (Oud for Greatness clone) can be in this list. Specially The Tux is great for 20$. Please try it
Lataffa maahir legacy smells just like PDM Sedley guys, it’s not in the list but trust me, spend the 20 bucks on that instead of 200+ on Parfums de marly. I’ve tested both, maybe the original is more high quality and obviously better ingredients, but from a purely scent perspective it smells really nice. If you don’t care about the title and the status and you’re not a serious collector then there’s no point in buying the PDM sedley. (Also the clone lasts longer than the OG)
Great list Omar, as usual. I have L'Aventure, Detour Noir, Asad & Legend Spirit and love them all. I have Sillage on my current wishlist, along with 9PM. Hopefully should be getting these within the next couple of weeks. I will keep an eye out for your new videos. Howdy from South Texas! 🤠
I didn’t heard that great stuff about sillage bro. Some people said it made them gag 😅 I personally would go for the rasasi one. Rasasi al wisam day. It has that same DNA, but with roses added to it. It’s unisex but pretty good imo. Try to decant it first before you buy it
Try Amber Oud Exclusif Bleu for an even better Layton clone Edit: DOES NOT say Al Haramain on the bottle! This one is a similar bottle but different fragrance
It's even more creative for someone to figure out what you do, 90% the same at 1/8th the price. Just showcases how much they are overcharging people while also kind of destroying some natural resources.
To answer your question at the end though ; I believe you swayed my next purchase to be the Afnan 9pm instead of the Asad by Lattafa. Biggest reason being mainly it is still summer and it would be more wearable but they are both interesting to me
For a silver mountain water clone, I would go with rasasi al wisam day. I love it it’s very fresh, citrusy and metallic. It’ll be great for the summertime.
@@themenacingbeast5437 sillage smells the sameish but it’s way more synthetic lol. Smw is way more smoothly blended and way higher quality. This is coming from someone that had sillage first. I do not get the hype. Sillage is a scrubber, smw is way more tolerable and has a milky smoothness sillage doesn’t have.
Afnan Turathi Blue is amazing too,Tygar clone. L'aventure is my first Aventus clone,and it was a love immediately🔥 Also i'm a big fan of CDNIM edt and pure parfum.
@@Malik.24 Black Panther. I just ordered 60m bottles for my son. He likes GIT so I got him Irish Gentleman and Game Time for his birthday gift. My kid is in his early twenties
I have cdnim edp and it's really better than the edt but my sprayer is broken and it leaks and takes 2-3 spray attempts to actually spray. It's a 200ml bottle too so it wasn't cheap enough to have an issue like that.😢
I loved the video! And I have tried the Sillage, and I have both of the Aventus clones that you spoke of, I really like them both for different reasons (L'aventure for the pineapple freshness, and CDNIM for the oakmoss and longevity). I haven't tried detour but want to, and I haven't tried carved oud yet, but I have a sample on the way. Really looking forward to that one! And thank you for the Black Panther recommendation, I've been scouring the internet for good clones of Tygar. Hope you have a great rest of your day! Thanks again!
We love these videos Omar! What do you think of layering light blue intense with 9 pm? Just tried it😂 don't waste your time guys. It smells like sweet rotten salty eggs 😂
Oud Wood and Carved Oud are both very expensive alternatives.. my suggestion for the same type of fragrance but for a fraction of the price is Versace Oud Noir. It smells great, medium longevity, but gives the same vibes as the others mentioned, a great cheap alternative. Btw I also prefer Carved Oud over TF..
another shout out to Afnan Turathi Blue plus add Afnan Rare Carbon (TF OL) - never tried but have heard the hype. I have TF OL and would be gutted if it was really close and performs well. I can attest that Asad and detour noir are both fantastic and worth every penny. There are in my rotation alongside CDNIM edp (best of the bunch and most cost effective), Rochas Moustache and oud for glory. Interesting tried Suqraat recently but have yet to do a side by side against ADG Profumo (have both and should try this experiment at some point). Also is Ameer al oud intense really close to MM BTFP - have the former?
Ameer al pud is about 80% similar. Because it is so cheap, you can overspray making performance and sillage great. I have both. Btfp is less sticky and sweet. More smokey. I wear both. Prefer btfp but ameer is definitely recommended.
Is Club de Nuit Intense Man Parfum good for colder seasons? I know it projects amazingly and has very good longevity, but my friends tell me I can only wear it in summertime
I am of two minds about clone fragrances. I do respect the creativity and ingenuity of original designer and niche fragrances. If I were an orignal fragrance designer, I would be livid at the actions of clone makers, especially when they blatantly copy the packaging as well. But there is a point where you are just paying for the name and I strongly suspect that far more of them use the exact same inexpensive synthetic ingredients that the clone makers use. Clone makers offer quality for affordability and I love that. But a lot of times they are really disrespectful and shameless in their IP theft. I try and balance it out by supporting both original makers and my own budget by mixing purchases of the two.
Damn, and i just bought the Jean Paul Gaultier ultra male and I'm now salty about the price. Especially since its not the insanely good smelling cologne people on RU-vid made it to be. I should have gotten the much cheaper 9 pm instead .
Another clone of TYGAR that’s recently been brought to my attention is Al Qaim Silver by Lattafa. Couple reviews knocking about on YT and a lot say it’s better than Turathi Blue. £35-£40 for 100ml as opposed to paying roughly the same for 30ml from Alexandria makes more sense IMO. We already know how good Lattafa clones can be.
I strongly disagree with you with Tom Ford Tobacco vanille and haramain, i got the batch from 2012 or 2013 of Tom Ford, i don't know if the formulation changed or not, and i tested the Haramain clone, the TM TV is harsher one spray and your done, i do have 50ml i got it for 10 years because i rarely go for more than 1 spray I don't need, the Haramain version to my nose is different it's lighter more on the very safe and insecure side, the TMTV is more on the confident side because it will attract attention and you will be noticed and people will stop and look around, they are completely different, if TMTV got a winter fresh and light version then it's Haramain, some fragrances it's unnecessary to go for the clone ones and i know they might be very expensive but it is what it is, some clones did it better than the original like Armaf milestone
Have you ever tested Afnan Turathi Blue ? I got it today and I dont know if im right, but I think it is also a clone to the bvlgari tygar. I think its great (but I dont know the tygar). Would be interesting what you think of it
No clone does Aventus as good as Aventus. Explorer, CDNIM and AHL never get the pineapple note right (or even include it in explorer's case). Brought a new bottle of Aventus earlier in the year, 8 hours longevity with 4 sprays and it's quite heavy on the fruity notes.
@School of Scent it's on notino at the moment for £35, although it may be redundant picking it up as you already have black panther. I was very impressed by it.
Imagination is worth every penny. It would be impossible to clone, the smoothness oozes class and of quality ingredients. It's also a real head turner. It's one of my most complicated frags. LV does refills for about half the original price, which is neat.
Some people prefer the clone. For example i've never gotten compliments with Aventus, but with Club de Nuit i've had multiple. I bought my Creed Aventus 2020, so i don't know if there's been any changes. I sprayed 1 spray couple hours ago both Aventus and Club de Nuit to my arms and because i haven't used Aventus in couple months i forgot how weak my Aventus smells, the scent is almost fully gone after just 2 hours. Club de Nuit is just more citrusy and chemical smelling version & bit stronger too & sillage is great. I bought this 2023 January. Of course Aventus is better smelling, but longevity and sillage are disappointing. If you have a fancy nose and very high standards, i don't think you will enjoy Club de Nuit. I remember after i bought Aventus and got to smell Club de Nuit and other 100-200 dollar fragrances for the first time, i was thinking what a waste of money Aventus was. There's so many good other high end products out there half the price.
I have every single one of these from Al Haramain and not only are they as good, or better, nobody can tell the difference. Plus I’ve literally gotten more compliments. 🤷♂️
Yeap, my first fragrance was The One by D&G; sweet, delicate, almost non-existent. Then I got my first Middle Eastern fragrance; Afnan 9 PM, and it was night and day; strong and long lasting. Now, I just prefer Middle Eastern fragrances.
I live out in the countryside. I worry about ordering off amazon. Any legit sites you can find al these? Need it for a birthday coming up =) or shopes in London
Generally, I prefer the original to the clone. Buying a clone almost feels like I'm cheating on the original. But I might cheat on Layton, if there's a similar but lighter version of it for summer (clubbing) nights. For instance, I wore Layton in Bangkok at night, but it still felt a bit too "strong" for high heat evenings & nights. Maybe a topic for another video: summer clubbing scents ... ;-)
Man i think the argument of clones vs originals is ridiculous. If anything clones help sell the original. The duping has given ultra male more clout than it would ever have gotten on its own. Only very few people who can actually afford the originals stick with clones... so effectively clones are generating buyers who aspire to your product and will buy it when they can afford it whereas they wouldnt even know it because it wasnt in their price spectrum before they had access to clones. The flipside is that when a clone really squeezes out the original for less than half the price all i can say is stop overpricing a product whos cost is clearly very low as compared to the selling price. 90 percent of perfumes are severely overpriced because apart from dumping tons of ambergris in a vat, most other ingredients arent going to justify a 500 dollar fragrance price for a 100 ml... now the overhead for a perfumers r&d is surely quite substantial.... but that can be easily remedied by simply selling larger volumes at more accessible prices.... but the culture of luxury hates this sort of user friendly business model... so for most of us clones are the only way to access these scents. Another obvious issue that a lot of people forget is that not every clobe is designed as a dupe from the getgo... but there are only a few hundred scent profiles that appeal to humans.... often when you mix match and riff the result is close to an existing smell... even if the brand doesnt advertise it as a clone it takes a week for it to be labled by tye community...
Is 9 PM better than Paco Rabbane One Million Prive? Suggest me Omar...should I buy the clone for a change or it's ample. Also added Khamrah few days back.
Some dollar store cheap alcohol smelling garbage is not "much better" than the masterpiece that is Sauvage Elixir in any context. If you seriously think so, you are at best dishonest, at worst completely unfit for this hobby. Same thing for Detour Noir - 90% similar? Lmao. If you are looking for a dollar store garbage that opens with a blast of cheap alcohol, and then matches 1-2 top notes from Layton for about 30 minutes, yeah. After that, its not even on the same planet as Layton.
