The Versace Eros Dupe: Armaf Club de Nuit Urban Man, Checked Against the Notes

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

Both bottles are sold in 100 ml, so the sticker prices compare directly. What follows is who makes the claim, what the two note lists share and where they part, what the corpus voters think of each, and how to test the pair before spending either amount.

What is Armaf Club de Nuit Urban Man a dupe of?

Armaf Club de Nuit Urban Man is a dupe of Versace Eros, according to PickMyClone's Armaf clone guide, which ranks it the top Armaf match for Eros at 79% accuracy, and Accord Twin lists the same pairing. Urban Man is an eau de parfum, and on 2026-09-30 FragranceX listed the boxed 3.4 oz bottle, 100 ml, at $24.70.

The Eros in this pairing is the original eau de toilette, which the Versace US store sold at $129 for 100 ml when Accord Twin checked it on 2026-09-30. The corpus gives Eros a 2012 release and Urban Man a 2017 one.

The claim comes from a clone review site, not from Armaf, and no Armaf page read for this guide names Eros. So the pairing is a reviewer's judgement that Accord Twin repeats, with the evidence set out below so the reader can weigh it.

Do Urban Man and Versace Eros really share the same notes?

Urban Man and Versace Eros share four listed notes, mint, cedar, vetiver and oakmoss, out of lists of 11 and 10. The Eros list on the Accord Twin record opens with mint, green apple and lemon over tonka bean, geranium and ambroxan, and closes on vanilla, vetiver, oakmoss and cedar.

The Urban Man list opens with bergamot, cardamom and mint, moves through ginger, nutmeg, cedar and lavender, and closes on sandalwood, vetiver, oakmoss and patchouli.

The shared part is the fresh mint and the woody-mossy base. The green apple, vanilla and tonka bean that Eros lists are not on the Urban Man record.

How common are mint, cedar, vetiver and oakmoss?

The four shared notes are all fairly common: across the Accord Twin corpus of 107,044 perfumes, cedar appears on 13,610, vetiver on 11,765, oakmoss on 6,342 and mint on 3,109. Green apple, one of the Eros notes the clone lacks, is rarer, on 1,059.

Mint is usually described as cool and fresh, oakmoss as damp and earthy, vetiver as dry and smoky-green, and cedar as dry and pencil-like. Green apple is usually described as crisp and sweet-sour, and vanilla and tonka bean as sweet and creamy. These are descriptions of the materials as brands list them, not measurements of either bottle.

So the lists share the frame of Eros, fresh on top and woody underneath, and miss much of the sweetness that sits in its middle. The guide to vanilla in perfume covers the note Eros lists and the clone does not, and the guide to woody fragrances covers the base.

Does Urban Man outlast Versace Eros?

The Accord Twin list gives Versace Eros around 6 hours of wear and holds no figure for Urban Man, so no measured comparison is possible. The corpus rates Eros's longevity as long from 1,975 votes, and rates the clone as moderate from only 23 votes.

PickMyClone, which names the clone, estimates 7 to 9 hours for it with strong sillage, and writes that Eros keeps slightly better definition between the heart and the base. Those are a reviewer's estimate and words rather than a measurement.

Concentration points in the clone's favour on paper. The Eros priced here is an eau de toilette and the clone is 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, and the guide to EDT, EDP and parfum explains why. All 36 listed wear figures are ranked in the guide to the longest-lasting perfumes.

What do corpus voters think of Eros and Urban Man?

Corpus voters rate Versace Eros 3.83 out of 5 from 4,823 votes and Club de Nuit Urban Man 2.17 out of 5 from 35 votes, with 66% of the clone's sentiment votes marked as dislike. Those are the voting figures stored in the Accord Twin corpus, not a verdict from Accord Twin.

The two numbers are not equally reliable. Nearly five thousand votes settle a rating; 35 do not, and a small group of disappointed buyers can pull a score a long way.

A low score on few votes is a warning, not a verdict.

It is still worth weighing against PickMyClone's 79%, which judges how close the clone smells to Eros rather than whether people like it. A clone can be close to an original and still be disliked, and the reverse. Accord Twin has not smelled either bottle, so the vote counts and the reviewer's score are the evidence, set side by side.

Where does the $104.30 go?

The $104.30 is the gap between Versace Eros at $129 and Urban Man at $24.70 for the same 100 ml, and no source read for this guide says what it pays for. Because the sizes match, the subtraction is fair as it stands: per millilitre it is $1.29 against 25 cents, so Eros costs about five times as much for the same volume.

What is known is short. Eros is a Versace eau de toilette priced on the brand's own site, while the Urban Man figure is a discounter's listing. Eros lists green apple, vanilla and tonka bean, which the Urban Man record 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 Creed Aventus dupe guide for Club de Nuit Intense Man runs the same kind of sum on another Armaf pairing, and the guide to what Club de Nuit is a dupe of maps the whole line.

Should you pick Urban Man if you love the sweet side of Eros?

Buy Urban Man if the minty, woody frame of Eros is what you want at $24.70 for 100 ml and you can live without its apple and vanilla; buy Eros if the sweet middle is the reason you like it. The split follows the lists and one reviewer's verdict, and those are all Accord Twin has.

PickMyClone writes that the clone uses simpler cedar accords and lacks the specific Madagascar vanilla depth of the original, which matches what the note lists show. Anyone who loves Eros for its sweetness should weigh that, and the low corpus rating, before buying.

And anyone who has never worn Eros should not buy either bottle blind. The clone is cheap enough that a miss costs little, but a cheap bottle you do not wear is still money spent. The next section is the low-cost way to find out which one suits you.

What is a low-risk way to try Eros and Urban Man?

Start with a sample of Versace Eros, not a full bottle, and wear it for a full day before deciding whether Urban Man is worth trying against it. A small decant costs a fraction of $129 and tells you whether you like the original at all.

Then test Urban Man on the other wrist, on the same day, so the two meet the same skin, weather and hours. Compare them at the start and again a few hours in, because the lists overlap at the mint and the woody base and part company in the sweet middle, where Eros lists apple, vanilla and tonka bean.

If the sweetness is what you miss, that is the part the lower price does not buy. The guide to perfume decants explains how to buy small amounts safely, and when a cheap full bottle is the better test than a decant.

What is the best Versace Eros dupe?

Armaf Club de Nuit Urban Man is the best-documented Versace Eros dupe Accord Twin can price, as PickMyClone's top Armaf match at 79%, and it is one of five claimed clones on record. PickMyClone ranks Armaf All You Need is Desire second at 76%.

The published lists also name Lattafa Blue Sapphire and Lattafa Qaed Al Fursan Untamed against Eros, and Melissa Jane Lee's Maison Alhambra list names Maison Alhambra Versencia Oro. Accord Twin holds no checked price or note list for any of those four yet, so none of them can be ranked against Urban Man here.

Calling one the best would need a published comparison with numbers, and a three-point gap in one reviewer's scores is too small to carry that weight. Readers who want other options can describe the smell they want to Accord Twin, which names three bottles at three prices and marks which pairings a source actually claims.

Is Urban Man a dupe of Eros Flame or Eros Energy?

Urban Man is claimed as a dupe of the original Versace Eros, not of Eros Flame or Eros Energy, which are different fragrances. The version is part of the name: a clone of Eros is not automatically a clone of every Eros flanker, and each flanker has its own note list and price.

No source read for this guide claims that Urban Man copies Eros Flame or Eros Energy, and Accord Twin holds no clone claim for either flanker.

So anyone searching for an Eros Flame dupe should not buy Urban Man on the strength of this page. The honest line for a flanker with no claim on record is the one Accord Twin uses everywhere: no cheaper alternative has been named for it by a source Accord Twin could check. The guide to dupe claims checked against notes explains why a claim is needed before a pairing appears.

What can this comparison not tell you?

Accord Twin cannot tell you whether Urban Man smells like Versace Eros on your skin, because it has not smelled either bottle and four shared notes out of ten or eleven is a partial match. Everything on this page comes from named sources read on stated dates: PickMyClone and Melissa Jane Lee for the claims, Versace and FragranceX for the prices, the corpus and FragranceX for the notes and votes.

Prices move. The Versace figure and the FragranceX one were both read 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 79% 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.