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no dude, the real scam is fragances to those prices! I even have the budget and not willing to pay for that crap. Stop your non sense. And whatever, people still going to buy dupes haha

i like how much effort u put it gang

I am with you 100% man!!! -Clones... been there, done that. I have 130+ bottles, ALL original ones, I got rid of the several clones I tried. -I would never wear a Tom Ford or Prada fake jacket, or a fake Movado watch. That would be distasteful, pretentious, and just lame and embarrassing to me. No clones for me, thank you! I am far from rich, but I like the real thing, I deserve the real thing. If I can't afford it, I move on. Imagine meeting someone for the first time who ask you about what you are wearing and you are wearing a clone. uuuuh... no good. The creative artistic work done by the original creators also deserves respect. And it is just better quality too. Never mind the haters. You are right.

The big problem with all this is that the original houses themselves reformulate their fragrances a few months after putting them on sale. They basically tell you "hey, here, the original bottle, the original logo, the original price, but the liquid inside is not the original formula. Enjoy!" It really is not very different from a clone, not to mention that it is a clone disguised as an original perfume. Reformulations result in fragrances that smell different and perform differently than the original. You buy a Montblanc and what is in the bottle is not very different from a Lataffa. At least the latter sell it to you cheap.

Cracking up over all the needless hate this vid is getting. I love the info and the way it’s being delivered. Someone mentioned the mic(?) he is using; how ludicrous is that? I mean, come on…really? And I’ll go ahead & bite the bullet & mention the elephant in the room: most clones suck!! They’re often heavy-handed, or have a clearly noticeable factor of cheapness in their scent. Who knows wtf is really in them as well. Sorry not sorry, but I trust a legendary designer house like Dior a HELLUVA lot more than any clone or mass producer UAE manufacturer when it comes to putting something on my skin. The most noticeable physical reaction I ever had to a fragrance was from a Lattafa (Sheik Shuyuke Final Edition) - which did smell good btw! And yes I have a couple of Afnans I love from their Supremacy line. So I am not against clones, I just think most of them are crap!

Aww poor luxury brands :C don't clone fragrance you guys! T.T

Yea I agree especially with the first point. I had one clone fragrance. I sold it after a few days even tho I liked it and it was around 1/5 of the price of the original. I just felt bad with myself knowing that I use the clone

Hidden gem of a channel. Watched almost of your videos by now and will keep watching, great and entertaining content! Thank you.

I hate Bond No9, Amouage, perfumers who recreate their fragrance for another fragrance house, "reverse engineering" and those who create with a twist, mancera, montale, but the compliments and price tags that goes along with those clones is great for most. Fact maybe yes no???: Firmenich - One of the largest fragrance and flavor companies in the world, Firmenich has extensive capabilities in fragrance creation and may analyze popular scents for inspiration in their formulations. International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) - A global leader in the fragrance and flavor industry, IFF is involved in the creation of new fragrances, which can involve reverse engineering as part of their process. Symrise - Another significant player in the fragrance industry, Symrise may reverse engineer popular fragrances as part of their innovation and development processes. Anyway, hope your delivery is recieved in its entirety and not subjected to subjectivity.

If you can’t afford the price go buy the clone guys, If you are really obsessed with the orginal fragrance, you are going to buy it eventually, either you buy it’s clone first or not But when it comes to people’s knowledge about perfumers, your argument is quite surreal. Majority of people wants just to smell good. We have to remember that those people have different things to do everyday and fragrance is just a hobby for them and expecting them to follow a certain perfumer or to know a fragrance’s perfumer is not an appropriate reason to not buying clones. Those two things are not related strongly. Worth noting: nobody needs to know who Alberto Morillas, Quentin Bisch, Kurkdjian, Demachy are. They don’t do it for ordinary people to know their names, they do it for the art and for the money, and for the money you have to be a good perfumer, for sure. If your fragrances have lots of clones, that’s mostly a good thing considering that your frag performs well enough. I agree about a thing with you though, I am sick of top 10 clones lists, those clones do not even smell close, for most of the time and by most of the time I mean %95. Clones are just clones…

I hate every car brand other than Volvo because they all stole their safety belt. No-no.

Imagine being soo high up big brands posterior’s that all you can smell is the aroma of their excrements

Indie Companies might lose money but I could care less if LVMH or Estee Lauder lose money, that's the whole idea.

Had a sample ask the girls at work they all said I smelled like an old lady.

Could never put that on my skin

Clones never smell better. Clones will usually last longer because they have high % of synthetic compounds that usually last few hrs longer. I’ve seen $20 cheap fragrances last all day but smell like trash

I can’t see myself buying a clone it’s no point just get the real thing and be happy. These clone junkies will buy million clones and it’s still won’t smell better than the real thing. Like buying a fake Rolex being delusional thinking it’s better than the real thing. Just pathetic if you feel the original is to expensive don’t complain just save up. You will be even more happy. But buying a collection of clones is cringe

A hot take. Good video

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Its like that with all facets of creation there is imitation furniture, cookware, clothes, shoes, tech, shoot even cars. Brands determine the prices consumers spend money on the investment. At some point you make purchase decisions on your personal preferences. You ether want orignal authenticity or replica copy cat styles. The key thing in any purchase of consumerism is the ability to distinguish key qualities that resonate with you the consumer. It's not like large brands dont manufacture cheap quality products and over price them ridiculously to gain unfair high margins of profitability.

As a guy who overbought on clones, now I'd prefer if those monies went to original fragrances. *HOWEVER* - the outstanding clones, 95-99% to the OG for a 5th ( if not 1/6....) of the price taught me how much of a scam some of the "regular" fragrances are. You just gotta be smart about this.

A lot of these fragrances are not 1:1 dupes. If these companies were more reasonable with the prices and quality of their products - Clones wouldn't exist.

I started off with clones because i didn't have the budget or i didn't allow myself, financially, to spend on more expensive perfumes. I said this just so you know where im coming from. I will say this, if all i cared about is purely scent, i'd be more then satisfied with the clones. Infact, the LATTAFA fragrances i have (not all of them are obvious clones) are in the top of my prefered fragrances out of my collection and i display this fact on fragrantica without shame. I have 15 dollar LATTAFA's that i prefer to 200 dollar niche, and they perform better! Having said that, i moved away from clones simply because i want to own the originals. It is not out of boasting or flexing, infact, if someone asks me what fragrance im wearing i usually lie about it because in today's economy and in the country i live in i'd be embarrased to admit in owning fragrances that cost as much as a month's rent. I don't have that kind of money anyway so i'd be trying to paint a picture that is simply not true. No man should pretend to have money he doesn't or to live a lifestyle that is a farce. Still, i chose to gravitate towards the originals because i respect and appreciate the product even more. Thats not to say i don't appreciate my clones, see my first point. I take care of the bottles and cherish them with the same attention as my more expensive stuff. As a person who wasn't spoiled and didn't have money for hobbies or money to throw away, you learn to appreciate and cherish everything.

Were you commenting on Enigma PC or Parfum? I would never say that Parfum has a weak dry down.

If a bottle of coke cost 15$ you'd best bet I'm buying the home brand one for $1. If pricing wasn't horrid in the fragrance industry clone brands would not need to exist.

Clones are “inspired” and “copied” versions of the originals but in my opinion clones never have to be carbon copied exact the same. They can be, many consumers would love them but not a must criteria. At least for me, I never go out each time and make sure meticulously the clones I’m buying or have bought are and must be exactly the same. 90% of the time, I do not care but I do care the way as they smell off of my skin, the performance and this is something you never mentioned about, “feelings” the emotions when you wear them. That goes to the whole world of fragrances. So when I wear the colones and make me feel so good then I don’t care the rest. Sure it’s a good reference to have sometimes what they are cloning to or inspired by. And also many of them smell as equally as good or better than the originals as many honest reviewers have been testifying. If you still want to spend $200 and more for the originals just so you feel the just is served knowing they are the “original” creators then no one would scream at your face. And remind you, some of those original fragrances might have been also getting at least “inspired” by other original brands and competitors especially when it comes to those “greedy” cosmetic and fragrance corporations. Those noses, the artists are just getting paid huge bucks by those multi-billion dollar companies what to creat and they are not necessarily creating by their own creative imaginations. They do have that “menu” and “instructions” written by those corporations to follow. Once those noses become very popular and earn huge recognitions from the world, they will sometime create their own labels like Francis Kurkdijan and he puts his own price tag on them which are not 2 digits but 3. At the end of the day, whether you are tired of clones or those flankers after flankers, they are in the same existence to make more money off of all of us fragrance enthusiasts or addicts one way or the other and you are also sort of justifying to buy some of clones of certain ones then we all are in the at least similar perimeter and neighbourhood of getting some scented water or “toilet water” to make ourselves smell and feel good regardless of where they are from and who made them. I like both the originals and clones but what I do deteste is the price tags they putting on particularly with designers fragrances and not only so high considered the production costs are so low, but they still keep raising the prices every year for the same or some cases worse because they reformulate them and dilute them for more profits!! And those people who are involved to create a fragrance you were talking about in the beginning of the video, most of them are also employees of those greedy companies and they just do what they were told to do just like most of us here. So for me, betraying or cheating on the originals, I don’t feel bad one bit. If it’s an independent artist and going through a lot of work and effort then that’s a complete different story. Of course most people in the fragrance community would understand his/her hard work and unique artistry.

This is probably my favorite fragrance

I absolutely agree with you about quality of clones. I mean, maybe all basic ingredients are bought from the same "big 6" providers. But I guess some unic ingredients like orris, mahogany wood or ebony wood cannot be bought and replicated so easy (well, even cdnim trys to replicate pineapple with sweet lemon). But still) I live in Russia and we have absolutely enormous prices on fragrances right now. Like price for Amouage, TF of LV fragrance is literally about your salary per month (again - literally). And a lot of frags we can't even buy already: like Dior, Channel, Nichanne etc. So clones actually help us to try some fragrance, original of which we just can't buy or it has absolutely crazy price. And Montale/Mancera help us with it also very well (they have quite a good prices yet). For example: I really wanted to try Dior Fahrenheit but I just can't try it somewhere offline, buy a sample or just a full bottle (we already doesn't have Fahrenheit here). In this case I bought the one from FW and it smells well. Another point about clones is that at least Lattafa tries already to make unic smells. And if you like not only the smell but also the bottles of fragrances then, well, c'mon, you just have to have Ajwaa. I bought it only because of its bottle, and I don't care if it's clone or not (now I know that it's not which is good) but THIS tree-bottle is magnificent... C'mon, name at least one western fragrance with such great bottle - if we have it here I will go and buy it. And another example: Here we have prices for fragrances from FW Abraaj line (clones of Amouage frags) around $12-15. For real Amouages it's about $500-600 (and it's not a joke or smth - these are literally real prices right now here *). Well, you know, in this case - NO, just NO, thanks... * And yes, it's a regular salary per montg here.

I don't know why all the hate you get but your opinion is reasonable.

How about Vertus Monarch ?

You are making a false comparison - covers and clones pay homage to the original. They don't and cannot just slap a Gucci sticker on them and claim to be the original.

To be 100% honest, I do not love the fact that I own some clones. But let me be 1000% clear it’s not because in any way shape or form I feel bad that I’m taking money out of one of these billion dollar or at least hundreds of million dollars Fragrant houses. How many times have you purchased a cologne really liked it then once you’re done with that bottle you purchased another of the same bottle only to find it’s not the same quality? So we’re OK with them doing that but we should have a problem with cloning it? The way I see there’s two ways to solve the problem number one sell your product cheaper, if you sell it for the same price as a clone would cost you’re not gonna have to worry about cloning it, and number two your clones. What if Creed had their own clone of Creed Aventus? you let it be known that you are using lesser quality but at a significant savings

I don’t like clones either but I see the space for them in the market and these higher end clones available now are actually made by hired perfumers as well not just decided and mixed by a machine.

Not fan of the house but I haven’t found anything as juicy citrusy as Elysium for its price at discounters. I have plenty of citruses but all more woody or bitter.

Idk what made you do a video like this, but it seems a bit misguided...perhaps even with the intent of rage-baiting. The idea that the cloning houses, which are mostly UAE based, are the only ones who clone is a bit silly. Both Mancera Cedrat Boise and Montblanc Explorer smell like Aventus, but those houses get a free pass and are branded "Aventus-inspired" when compared to Armaf's stuff. Green Irish Tweed and Cool Water smell similar, but you won't hear people cry about the morality of copying someone else's work there, unless it's the arabic houses who do it at a more competitive pricing, while also creating decent products. Depending on where you live, and a whole lot of people don't live in developed western countries, spending 100, 200 or more $$ on a perfume might not be that viable, so getting something that has a decent scent and performance for relatively cheap is the only option.

Aventus. Nobody could tell if you're wearing anything. 300€ CDNI. Everybody can appreciate your scent. 30€ Of course I'm into clones. Companies should get into not scamming us

What I do respect about the clones is that they can get so close to the real thing, but cost like 10 times less, and that can justify your purchase. However, if the clone is cloning a designer scent, at let's say half the price, and being 80-90% accurate, with the performance being a bit weaker, then you could argue that you should invest into a real thing. Also, in some instances, clone fragrance can outperform the actual fragrance, so of course people are going to support clone houses.

You forgot to tell all the truth. Many of designer fragrances are inspired by another fragrances, that's some kind of clone...

Wouldn't ginger heavy fragrances help with nausea? It seems like that would be the case. I read an article about how orange scents can help boost ones mood, and I've been using leather fragrances to help me relax to fall asleep at night lately.

Fragrance is expensive so "clones" are a good market, you can go into zara and get some really good inspired by fragrances but there are differences and trade offs in quality and the dry down dosent lie when it comes to these clones because that dry down is disgusting in my experience For me the original is always better blended, smelling, preforming, and the dry down superior, alot of these clones can smell too sharp and too fake smelling, with inferior dry down

Al Haramain revenue is 34m$ per year, compared to , for example, Guerlain which has a revenue of 300m$ per year... so you can't say that Al Haramain is a little perfume house, knowing that Guerlain is one of the top sellers worldwide

The entire argument of "stealing" falls apart when you consider perfumers don't own their creations nor do they make royalties from it. I'm all about crediting your perfumers and paying them more, but the fact of the matter is that these recipes and formulations are owned by mega corporations. I couldn't possibly feel poorly about displaying forged Basqiat reprints, and I think that is analogous to perfumery. By your logic I should be condemning Damber Wabsolute despite the perfumer sharing the ingredients and no longer being a part of Tom Ford as well as anti-establishment himself. These scent profiles becoming more accessible only helps the perfumer get more credit, if that's who we really care about here. People aren't buying dupes because they want dupes. They want the OG but can't afford it. Someone's first dip into fragrance is a lataffa dupe of a xerjoff instead of sauvage. They hate "cologne" but this one actually smells nice. Guess who just got a new eventual fan? The perfumer. That's not to say they live off love and adoration, they need money just like us, but more OG bottles being sold doesn't necessarily mean more money in their pocket and more encompassingly, who's to say more OG bottles aren't sold BECAUSE of dupes making scent profiles more accessible? I know I bought Tuxedo because I loved The Tux so much. I never smelled that scent profile before. It's only natural that anyone with a dupe would eventually want to graduate to the real thing. I should probably actually watch past 6 minutes though so let me continue.

Thank you bro. Many people who also hate copycats who undercut originals (ie clones) are afraid to speak up about it. You see why in your comments lol! Clone lovers are like a mob lol. But I agree with you whole heartedly man.

saying this while using a neumann clone is quite funny

my cdnim perfume beats your aventus in performance and even in smell, so yeah no, keep your niche bud XD

Commenting to boost your stats - really good content, keep it up brother

I buy niche, designer to clone everything. Just a matter of what i emjoy. Wearing Sauvage Elixir today, will wear Khamrah tomorrow. What's delusional is thinking that brands like Dior or Creed or LV give two rats asses about you. I make clothing for a living. For all kinds of brands. In the hundreds of thousands. Believe me when i tell you this, no one cares. None of the brands do. I sit in meetings with these folks andnhave done so for over a decade all over the world. The price is set where the demand meets the supply. Thats has been and always will be the market. Capitalist pig or not. We can speak on it for days on end, and the end result will be the same.....it doesn't matter and majority of people do not care. I see happy people wearing fake Gucci and sad people wearing real Pradas. It doesn't matter.

Go to the grocery store and you will see a Generic version of many items. Cinnamon Toast Crunch vs Cinnamon Toast Brunch. The generic brand is a replica of the OG. Not an inspiration. Nobody is forcing you to buy the clone. Food, clothes, shoes, materials. Damn near everything has a cheaper alternative. And somehow, the companies are still thriving. And when they are not, I'm not sure the that it is due to the existing of those replicas. I've spent a good amount of money on the real deals. And a lot of money on the clones. Many of the clones I've purchased influenced me to buy the real deal.

Clone fragrances are extremely tacky

Clones suck. Most of them are sweatshop made. That's where the cheap is from. They undercut ethical makers. Avoid UAE. Its 80% migrant labor, and they have no rights.