Commercially successful fragrance replicas and analyses
Neroli Portofino is a very popular modern take on the classic cologne. Neroli is used in a vast number of men’s fragrances as a basic note, and in women’s fragrances often as an accent. In traces or overdose it is exceedingly beautiful. This formula takes the Tom Ford iteration of a cologne and ramps it …
Terre D’Hermes is an extraordinary fragrance of woods, vetiver, pepper, and mosses. It is universally loved and while it tends toward the masculine, it is quite unisex. This is my take on the wonderful fragrance. It does use a few restricted ingredients (not restricted when the fragrance was first created) but generally it is straightforward …
Everyone loves Aventus by Creed. It is their number one best selling fragrance and probably the most cloned. Sauvage by Christian Dior and more recently Mont Blanc’s Explorer are very similar in style (Explorer being virtually a clone – and considered better than Aventus by some reviewers!) When perfume reviewers and experts are asked “what …
