Perfume dupes for women

Women's Perfume Dupes – Alternatives to Famous Scents in EDP Concentration

Perfume dupes are eaux de parfum inspired by famous scents. They recreate the original composition under the maker's own name and cost less than perfumes with a fashion house logo. They're also called perfume alternatives, inspired perfumes or decanted perfumes. All our women's perfume dupes are eaux de parfum (EDP), which according to the concentration classification described by Fragrantica means compositions with 15–20% fragrance oils that last 6–10 hours on the skin. In this category you'll find over 110 women's scents, in 50 and 100 ml bottles.

To start, choose one of our four bestsellers. The Lancôme La Vie Est Belle dupe is the most popular women's scent in the whole shop, sweet with praline and iris. The Chanel Coco Mademoiselle dupe suits the office and meetings because it's elegant and never overpowering. The Carolina Herrera Good Girl dupe is the pick for evenings and dates. The Dior J'adore dupe works for every day and as a gift for mum.

How to choose perfume dupes for women

To choose a perfume dupe for yourself, start with a scent you already know, then match the fragrance family and longevity to the season and occasion. Below we explain how an alternative differs from the original, how to choose a fragrance family and how to check longevity.

How a dupe differs from the original

A dupe differs from the original in its name, bottle and price, not in the character of the scent. It recreates the same note pyramid – top, heart and base – in eau de parfum concentration. You pay for the composition, not for an ad with a film star and a designer bottle. You can compare originals with their alternatives in the Original perfumes for women category.

How to choose a fragrance family

To choose a fragrance family, think about when you'll wear the perfume. Floral and citrus scents smell light during the day and in summer, chypres suit the office, and amber, vanilla and gourmand scents wrap you up in autumn and in the evening. Our customers' favourite brands are Chanel, Dior and Giorgio Armani.

How to check longevity

To check longevity, spray the perfume on your wrist in the morning and smell your skin after 4 and after 8 hours. Base notes – vanilla, musk, patchouli and amber – last the longest, which is why sweet and oriental scents last longer than citrus ones. On clothes, an eau de parfum can smell for up to 2–3 days.

FAQ: perfume dupes – frequently asked questions

Below we answer the questions about women's perfume alternatives that our customers ask most often.

What are perfume dupes?

Perfume dupes are eaux de parfum inspired by famous scents that recreate their composition under a different name and at a lower price. In our shop, every dupe has an EDP concentration of 15–20% and an N° number, and the product page shows which original it's inspired by.

Are perfume alternatives long-lasting?

Perfume alternatives are long-lasting because, as eaux de parfum, they last 6–10 hours on the skin. Compositions with vanilla, amber and patchouli last the longest, and 2–3 sprays are enough for the whole day. We've gathered the longest-lasting scents in our ranking of long-lasting perfumes for women.

What are decanted perfumes?

Decanted perfumes are perfumes filled into bottles from a larger batch of the composition, usually as dupes of famous scents. The Polish term “lane” or “nalewane” (poured) describes how they're bottled, not their quality: our dupes go into 50 and 100 ml glass bottles with an atomiser.

Which perfumes are similar to La Vie Est Belle?

The most similar to La Vie Est Belle are sweet gourmand scents with praline and vanilla, e.g. Lancôme La Nuit Trésor, Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium and Thierry Mugler Angel. They all have a sweet, long-lasting base, and you can compare the full list in our ranking of women's perfume dupes.

Are perfume dupes fakes?

Perfume dupes are not fakes because they don't pretend to be the original: they have their own name, their own bottle and openly state the scent that inspired them. A fake copies the brand's logo and packaging, while a dupe only copies the character of the composition.