Accord Twin / Dupes / How we decide
How we decide what counts as a dupe
A cheaper bottle is listed as a dupe only when somebody else has said so in public, about that exact bottle, and when it is not already known as a clone of something different.
Somebody has to have said it
A bottle appears on a page here only when a clone list, a reviewer or a forum thread names it for that fragrance. Our own impression that two things smell alike is not evidence, and a shop listing is a price, not a claim — an Amazon page proves what something costs, not what it smells like.
The version is part of the name
Bad Boy and Bad Boy Extreme are different perfumes, and so are Sauvage and Sauvage Elixir, and Le Male and Ultra Male. A dupe claimed for the base bottle does not carry over to a flanker unless a source names the flanker. Most dupe lists ignore this, which is how a bottle ends up recommended for a fragrance it was never compared to.
A bottle that clones something else is never listed
Afnan 9PM is widely documented as a Jean Paul Gaultier Ultra Male clone. It is therefore never shown under another house’s bottle here, however close the accords look on paper. We keep a table of 253 clone-to-original pairings taken from the published clone lists, and it works as a veto: if a bottle is filed under a different fragrance, it cannot appear on this one’s page.
What we still cannot promise
We have not smelled these bottles. Everything here is what sources say, priced on the day we checked, and prices move. A dupe is never the same perfume: it holds the recognisable part and gives up the rest, usually in the dry-down and in how long it lasts. That is why every card carries the catch.
The same rules run inside the finder. Describe a bottle or a feeling and it will only name cheaper bottles someone has actually claimed for it.
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