Zara Fashionably London and Delina Exclusif: The $370 Question

By Mahdi MST · Updated 2026-09-22 · 8 min read

Delina Exclusif is not the same perfume as Delina.

Parfums de Marly sells both, and on the Accord Twin list they sit in different families: Delina in Floral at $335, Delina Exclusif in Amber at $430. At that price Exclusif is the most expensive of the four Parfums de Marly bottles on the list, ahead of Oajan at $400.

Zara sells a bottle called Fashionably London for $59.90 that lists the same five notes as Exclusif. A dupe list can print that in one line. This guide checks the three things a one-line claim skips: which Delina the Zara actually matches, what an identical note list does and does not prove, and where the extra $370.10 goes.

What exactly is Zara Fashionably London a dupe of?

Zara Fashionably London is listed on Accord Twin as a dupe of Parfums de Marly Delina Exclusif, the $430 bottle, and not of the $335 Delina, which draws roughly three times the searches. The distinction matters because the two Parfums de Marly bottles are built from different note lists, and a dupe is only useful if it copies the one you actually want.

The pairing is one of 50 approved on the list, and one of 22 where the cheaper bottle comes from Zara. 18 of those 22 Zara bottles are listed at $26 and the other four at $39.90 or $59.90, and Zara is the largest single source of dupes the list holds. That narrow spread is useful, because it means the dupe's price is barely a variable in a Zara comparison. The notes are.

So the question worth asking is not whether a $59.90 bottle can compete. It is whether this particular $59.90 bottle matches this particular original, note for note, and the answer to that depends on which Delina you had in mind.

Do the two bottles really share all five notes?

Zara Fashionably London and Parfums de Marly Delina Exclusif really do share all five notes: Accord Twin lists both with the same five, and no note on either list is missing from the other. Those notes are litchi, pear, bergamot, pink pepper and turkish rose.

That is the strongest kind of match the list records. In the published audit of dupe claims, only 99 of 274 checked claims showed real overlap between the two note lists, and 83 showed almost none. A pair that shares every listed note sits at the very top of that range.

Both bottles also sit in the same family, Amber, which is where 25 of the 122 bottles on the list are classified. A shared family and a shared note list together are about as close as published data can bring two perfumes. Beyond that point the only instrument left is a nose, and the list does not have one.

How common are rose and lychee?

Rose is in real retreat while lychee barely existed before the 2000s, so this note list reads as a modern one.

Across 57,598 dated fragrances in the Accord Twin corpus, counted as a share of all note mentions in each decade:

Rose is named on 12,358 releases and is down about 2.2 times; lychee on 322 and rising from nothing. Jasmine fell on the same curve as rose, down 2.1 times. A rose-and-lychee list is therefore a combination that could not have existed in 1985, whichever bottle is wearing it.

These are notes as brands list them rather than measured content, and the 2020s rest on 4,290 dated releases, so treat the last column as the weakest one.

Is it a dupe of Delina or of Delina Exclusif?

Zara Fashionably London matches Delina Exclusif, and it shares only one listed note exactly with the original Delina: turkish rose. That is the most important fact in this guide for anyone shopping by name, because the two Parfums de Marly bottles are easy to confuse and hard to swap.

Exclusif drops the peony and the vanilla, adds pear, bergamot and pink pepper, and moves from Floral to Amber. The lychee in one list and the litchi in the other are the same fruit under two spellings, so the practical overlap with Delina is two notes out of four, not one.

Either way it is a partial match. If the bottle you want is Delina, Fashionably London was not paired with it. If it is Exclusif, the list says it was, and the same Zara bottle also turns up as a $59.90 rose in the rose and amber guide.

Both sit in families defined by Michael Edwards' Fragrance Wheel rather than by either brand.

Does an identical note list mean an identical smell?

An identical note list means the two brands published the same five ingredients, and it says nothing about how much of each is used, which materials stand in for them, or what else is in the bottle that neither brand chose to list.

Rose is a clear example. A turkish rose note can be built from a natural rose oil, from a handful of synthetic rose molecules, or from a blend of both, and the three can smell noticeably different while all being honestly described as rose. Fruit notes such as pear and litchi are usually built from aroma chemicals, because most fruits do not give up a usable essential oil the way a flower or a peel does.

So treat a five-note match as a strong reason to try the Zara, and not as a promise that it smells the same. Accord Twin has not smelled either bottle. The match is a match on paper, and paper is where the list stops.

Where does the $370.10 go?

The $370.10 between the two bottles is not an ingredient bill, and no published source breaks down what it buys. Neither brand discloses formula costs, so any split between materials, bottle, distribution and margin would be a guess, and a guess dressed up as a breakdown is exactly the kind of number this site refuses to print.

What the list can show is that the gap is consistent across the range. Most Zara dupes on it cost $26, while the originals they are paired against run into the hundreds. Parfums de Marly alone has four bottles on the list, from Delina at $335 to Delina Exclusif at $430. Among the 41 pairings where all five notes match, the $370.10 gap is the fifth widest, behind Zara For Him Red Edition against Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum at $455.10, Aldi Lacura Her Reign against Creed Aventus For Her at $451, Lattafa Al Qiam Silver against Bvlgari Tygar at $450.01 and Zara Ocean Blue against Oajan at $374.

Here is the part the price does honestly tell you: which bottle carries the name. It does not tell you which one smells better on you, and it cannot, because that is settled by a nose and not by a receipt.

Who should buy Zara Fashionably London, and who should not?

Buy Zara Fashionably London if Delina Exclusif is the bottle you want and $430 is more than you want to spend finding out whether you like wearing it. At $59.90 it costs about 14% of the original, which turns a large commitment into a small experiment.

Do not buy it expecting the Parfums de Marly bottle itself. The Zara carries no Parfums de Marly name and may not wear the way the original does, and Accord Twin holds no wear figure for either bottle, so it will not guess which one lasts longer.

And skip it if what you actually want is the original Delina. The two Parfums de Marly bottles share only turkish rose and a lychee note spelled two ways, so a dupe of one is a weak stand-in for the other. For that bottle, the honest move is to sample Delina itself before spending anything on a copy of its sibling.

The wear figures rest on evaporation rather than opinion. Schwarzenbach and Bertschi of Givaudan sampled the air above treated skin in 2001 and watched the concentration fall away over several hours.

How do you test the two without wasting money?

Test the Zara first, because at $59.90 it is the cheaper mistake. Wear it for a full day before judging, since the opening of a perfume and the way it settles later can feel like two different products, and a verdict formed in the first few minutes is really a verdict about the top notes alone.

If you like it, the next step is not the full $430 bottle. A decant of Delina Exclusif lets you run the fair test: a week of ordinary days in the Zara, then a week in the decant, noticing which one you reach for. A side-by-side sniff on one afternoon settles less, because your nose adapts within minutes to whatever is closest to it.

If you cannot tell them apart, keep the $59.90 bottle and the $370.10 difference. If you can, and the original is clearly the one you want, you will have learned it for the price of a decant instead of $430.

What can this comparison not tell you?

A note-list comparison cannot tell you how Zara Fashionably London or Delina Exclusif smells, how long either one lasts, or how far either one carries, because Accord Twin holds none of those facts for these two bottles and does not estimate them.

The note lists, prices and families come from the Accord Twin list, and the pairing is one of its 50 approved dupe pairs. The launch year of Delina Exclusif, 2018, comes from Fragrantica's page for the bottle, and Parfums de Marly's own US store sells it in 30ml and 75ml sizes. Prices move and retailers discount, so check the current price and size before you compare. What this guide stands behind without qualification is the narrow claim: on paper, these two bottles list the same five notes for a $370.10 difference.

Whether that difference is worth paying is a question only your own wrist can answer.

Age changes both bottles. A 2004 study by Moa Sköld and colleagues found that fragrance terpenes oxidise once air reaches them, so an old bottle is not chemically the bottle it was when it was sealed.

Prices here are the figures Accord Twin lists, last checked September 2026. They are a reference for comparing bottles, not one shop's till: the same bottle moves with size and retailer, so check the shop before buying.