The Creed Silver Mountain Water Dupe: Armaf Club de Nuit Sillage, Note by Note

By Mahdi MST · Updated 2026-10-16 · 7 min read

The bottles come in different sizes, so every sum in this guide is per millilitre. What follows is who makes the claim, what the lists share and where they part, why the listed wear figures point in an unexpected direction, and how to test the pair before spending either amount.

What is Armaf Club de Nuit Sillage a dupe of?

Armaf Club de Nuit Sillage is a dupe of Creed Silver Mountain Water, according to PickMyClone's Armaf clone guide, which rates it 80%, and Accord Twin lists the same pairing. Club de Nuit Sillage is an eau de parfum sold as unisex, and on 2026-09-30 FragranceX listed the 3.6 oz bottle, 105 ml, at $37.75.

Silver Mountain Water is a Creed eau de toilette, and the Creed Boutique US sold the 50 ml bottle for $360 when Accord Twin checked it on 2026-09-17. The corpus gives Silver Mountain Water a 1995 release and the clone a 2020 one, a gap of 25 years.

PickMyClone lists the clone twice, once as CDN Sillage Creed at 82% and once as Club de Nuit Sillage at 80%, which reads like one bottle under two names. The claim comes from reviewers, not from Armaf, and no Armaf page read for this guide names Creed.

Do Club de Nuit Sillage and Silver Mountain Water really share the same notes?

Club de Nuit Sillage and Silver Mountain Water share four listed notes, bergamot, black currant, musk and sandalwood, out of lists of 13 and 8. The Silver Mountain Water list pairs bergamot and mandarin with green tea and black currant, over galbanum, musk, sandalwood and petitgrain.

The Club de Nuit Sillage list adds lemon, lime, violet leaf and ginger at the top, rose, jasmine and iris in the middle, and ambroxan and cedar at the base.

The two notes that give Silver Mountain Water its green character, green tea and galbanum, are not on the clone's list. That is the gap to test for.

How unusual is green tea in a fragrance?

Green tea is the rare note on the Silver Mountain Water list and musk the most common: across the Accord Twin corpus of 107,044 perfumes, green tea appears on 777, galbanum on 2,247 and black currant on 2,763 under that spelling, while musk appears on 33,174 and ranks 1st of 4,506 distinct note names by mentions.

So the clone shares the common notes and misses the rare one. Sandalwood and bergamot are also near the top of the corpus, on 24,341 and 21,805 perfumes.

Green tea is usually described as fresh and slightly bitter, galbanum as sharp and green, black currant as tart and fruity, and musk as soft and clean. These are descriptions of the materials as brands list them, not measurements of either bottle. The guide to what musk smells like covers the base both bottles list, and it explains why the word musk covers a whole class of materials.

Does Club de Nuit Sillage last longer than Silver Mountain Water?

The Accord Twin list gives Creed Silver Mountain Water around 4 hours of wear and holds no figure for Club de Nuit Sillage, so no measured comparison is possible. The corpus rates the original's longevity as moderate from 799 votes, and carries no longevity votes for the clone.

PickMyClone's estimate for the clone is 8 to 10 hours, and its verdict calls longevity comparable. Those are a reviewer's estimate and words rather than a measurement, and the site's two entries for the clone do not fully agree with each other.

Concentration favours the clone on paper. The Creed is an eau de toilette and the Armaf an eau de parfum, and on the Accord Twin list the 10 eaux de toilette with a figure run from around 4 to 7 hours against 5 to 9 for the 24 eaux de parfum. The label is a loose guide, not a promise, as the guide to EDT, EDP and parfum explains. The guide to the longest-lasting perfumes ranks all 36 bottles that carry a figure, from the shortest wear to the longest.

Does a shared note list mean an identical smell?

A shared note list does not mean an identical smell, and four shared notes out of eight is a partial match. A note list names materials. It does not give amounts, grades, or how each one reaches you.

PickMyClone's verdict describes the difference in its own words: the clone has a slightly heavier synthetic quality than the original's airy transparency, with a more pronounced metallic signature, while the original's dry-down reads as more polished.

Airy is hard to copy on paper.

Green tea and galbanum are the materials most often associated with that airy, green quality, and they are exactly the two the clone's list leaves out. That does not prove the clone fails, since a list can leave out what a formula contains. The site's own check of 274 published dupe claims found 83 that shared almost no notes, so this pair sits in the middle of that range. Accord Twin has not smelled either bottle.

Where does the $6.84 a millilitre go?

The $6.84 a millilitre is the gap between Silver Mountain Water at $7.20 per millilitre and Club de Nuit Sillage at 36 cents, and no source read for this guide says what it pays for. The sticker prices cannot be subtracted directly, because the Creed is sold here in 50 ml and the clone in 105 ml, so the fair comparison is per millilitre: the Creed costs about 20 times as much for the same volume.

What is known is short. Silver Mountain Water is priced at Creed's own US boutique, while the Club de Nuit Sillage figure is a discounter's listing. The Creed lists green tea, galbanum and petitgrain, which the clone does not.

What is not known is longer: the cost of either formula, the grade of any material, and how much of each price is bottle, brand and distribution. The guide to niche versus designer fragrance sets out what a price gap can and cannot be shown to buy.

Is Club de Nuit Sillage right for you without the green tea and galbanum?

Buy Club de Nuit Sillage if you want a fresh citrus-and-currant bottle at 36 cents a millilitre and can accept a list without green tea or galbanum; buy Silver Mountain Water if the green, airy character is the reason you want it. The split follows the lists and one reviewer's verdict, and those are all Accord Twin has.

The clone's list also names rose, jasmine, iris and ambroxan, which may read more floral and ambery than the Creed on paper. Anyone who loves Silver Mountain Water for its clean, watery feel should weigh that before buying.

And anyone who has never worn Silver Mountain Water should not buy either bottle blind. The Creed is a large bet at $360 for 50 ml, and even the $37.75 clone is money wasted if the missing green notes turn out to matter. The next section is the low-cost way to find out.

Is a decant the best way to try Silver Mountain Water first?

Start with a sample or decant of Silver Mountain Water, not a full bottle, and wear it for a full day before deciding whether Club de Nuit Sillage is worth trying against it. A small decant costs a fraction of $360 and tells you whether you like the original at all.

Then test Club de Nuit Sillage on the other wrist, on the same day, so the two meet the same skin, weather and hours. Compare them at the start, when the shared bergamot and black currant are strongest on paper, and again a few hours in, when the green tea and galbanum on the Creed list would be the difference.

If the clone reads heavier on you, as PickMyClone suggests it can, that is the part the lower price does not buy. The guide to perfume decants explains how to buy small amounts safely and what to watch for.

What is the best Silver Mountain Water clone?

Armaf Club de Nuit Sillage is the best-documented Silver Mountain Water clone Accord Twin can price, at 80% on PickMyClone and with a checked US price on this page. PickMyClone lists two further Armaf bottles against the Creed, one printed as Sillage at 78% and Bucephalus No. II at 76%, and the published clone lists also name Afnan Supremacy In Heaven.

Accord Twin holds no checked price or note list for any of the others, so none of them can be ranked against Club de Nuit Sillage here.

Calling one the best would need a published comparison with numbers, and a few points between one reviewer's scores are too few to carry that weight. The guide to what Club de Nuit is a dupe of shows where Sillage sits in the Armaf line, which targets Creed more often than any other house on the lists Accord Twin reads, and the Armaf Club de Nuit Intense Man and Creed Aventus guide covers the best-known of those pairings.

What can this comparison not tell you?

Accord Twin cannot tell you whether Club de Nuit Sillage smells like Silver Mountain Water on your skin, because it has not smelled either bottle and the lists share only four notes. Everything on this page comes from named sources read on stated dates: PickMyClone for the claim and scores, the Creed Boutique US and FragranceX for the prices, and the corpus and FragranceX for the notes.

Prices move. The Creed figure was read on 2026-09-17 and the FragranceX one on 2026-09-30. If a shop shows something different today, trust the shop.

The page also cannot give a measured wear time for the clone, since no source publishes one, and the 80% is a reviewer's judgement rather than a measurement. What it can do is show the claim, the evidence and the gap in plain numbers, so the sample you buy is an informed test.

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.