Lattafa Dupe Accuracy: We Verified the Note Data, and Found a Problem

By S Bin Shaheen, Fragrance Expert at Perfumeo. Research conducted August 2026. This page is updated as verification continues.

Every Lattafa dupe list online publishes match percentages. None of them explains where the number comes from.

We tried to build one properly, by counting published notes rather than guessing at similarity. Partway through, the exercise turned into something more interesting: we found that the published note data itself cannot be trusted. Lattafa’s own website contradicts Fragrantica. Retailers contradict both. One fragrance name carries three incompatible note lists across major sellers.

This page sets out the verified scores so far, the method behind them, and every data conflict we found along the way. We sell these fragrances, so read it accordingly. We have also published the working so anyone can check it.

The method

A dupe score should answer a question you can verify. Ours is: how many of the original’s published notes does the Lattafa reproduce?

Not how similar it smells. That is subjective and skin-dependent. Note overlap is countable, and anyone can repeat the count.

Source hierarchy. Brand’s own website first, for both fragrances. Fragrantica where a brand publishes nothing. Regional brand sites excluded, though we record where they diverge. Where a brand publishes both a full description and a short “main notes” summary, we use the full description.

What we exclude. Fragrantica’s pros and cons boxes carry a disclaimer stating they are AI-generated and may be inaccurate. Several circulate percentage claims. We do not cite them. Retailer product copy is excluded entirely, including our own, for reasons the findings below make obvious.

What the number does not tell you. Two fragrances can share almost no notes and still smell related, because different materials produce similar effects. Ameer Al Oudh shares one note with Replica By The Fireplace, yet Fragrantica users independently describe it as a lighter version of it. Smoke from oud and smoke from guaiac wood read similarly to a nose and count separately on paper. Treat a low score as evidence about the formula, not a verdict on the fragrance.

Verified scores

These pairs have been checked against brand-published notes on both sides.

Two columns, because the answer depends on which published list you count. Brands publish short marketing note lists. Fragrantica catalogues everything. Neither is wrong, and the gap between them is the most useful thing on this page.

Only one pair scores identically in both columns. Oud for Glory matches Initio Oud for Greatness completely whichever list you use, which makes it the only unambiguous match we found. Everything else moves, and Eternal Oud moves by 44 points.

These pairs are verified against Fragrantica on both sides, with brand-source checks still outstanding.

Where a brand list is too vague to use

Dior’s own product page for Poison Girl names three ingredients: orange, tonka bean and vanilla. The heart is described only as “a bouquet of sensual flowers”, with no flower named. Scoring against that would manufacture precision that does not exist, so Yara stays in the Fragrantica-only table.

Poison Girl also exists as an eau de parfum from 2016, an eau de toilette from 2017 with a different pyramid, and Poison Girl Unexpected from 2018. A comparison that does not specify which one means little. One Fragrantica owner reports a 2022 bottle smelling sweet and a 2024 bottle smelling almost entirely of bitter orange, which suggests reformulation on top of the flankers.

Fragrances with no comparison to verify

Most of the Lattafa range is not imitating anything, and no credible source claims otherwise.

Eternal Vanille is the clearest case. Reviewers on both Fragrantica and Parfumo state directly that Lattafa created something with its own character, and the only comparison anyone offers is vague and unattributed. Raghad, Jasoor, Al Dur Al Maknoon Silver, Atlas, Ana Abiyedh, Ajayeb Dubai Portrait and Shaheen Silver are the same: widely sold, never seriously described as versions of anything else.

We mention this because dupe lists have no reason to. A fragrance with no expensive original to name against it earns nobody a click, so it gets left out, and the range looks more derivative than it is.

Why the two columns differ so much

Luxury houses publish abbreviated note lists as marketing copy rather than formula disclosure. Parfums de Marly’s own page for Herod names three notes. Maison Francis Kurkdjian names five for Grand Soir. Kilian names six for Smoking Hot. Fragrantica lists thirteen, nine and ten respectively.

Lattafa, by contrast, publishes detailed pyramids of eight to thirteen notes. So scoring a detailed list against a minimal one inflates the result, every time, in the same direction.

Any site publishing a single confident percentage has made this choice without telling you.

The finding nobody expected

The most repeated dupe claims score worst. The one almost nobody discusses scores perfectly.

Oud for Glory reproduces every published note of Initio Oud for Greatness: saffron, nutmeg, lavender, agarwood, patchouli, musk. Six for six. Lattafa’s own site and Fragrantica agree on the pyramid, which happens rarely. Two independent reviewers who owned both, one on Parfumo and one on Fragrantica, separately put the dry-downs at around 95% identical.

Meanwhile Asad, routinely sold as a Sauvage Elixir dupe, shares two notes with it. Yara, compared endlessly to Poison Girl, shares three of twelve and carries neither of the roses the original is built on.

And Honor and Glory, filed by affiliate lists under the same Initio comparison as Oud for Glory because it shares a line name, has nothing in common with it whatsoever. It is a pineapple and creme brulee gourmand. Zero shared notes.

Where the data breaks down

This is the part that changed the project.

Lattafa contradicts Lattafa

Lattafa’s own website publishes note lists that disagree with Fragrantica’s entries for the same product.

Yara Moi. Fragrantica gives jasmine and peach, caramel and amber, patchouli and sandalwood. Lattafa’s site gives pear, pink pepper and black currant, tuberose, jasmine and almond, vanilla, cashmeran and patchouli. Two notes appear on both lists.

Oud Mood Silver. The two published pyramids share nothing at all.

Khamrah. Lattafa lists nutmeg where Fragrantica lists clary sage. Lattafa names dates and mahonial specifically; Fragrantica hedges with “sweet fruity notes”, which is a striking omission given dates are the most identifiable thing in the fragrance. Here the brand’s list is the better one, and the market agrees: Lattafa USA, Lattafa Nigeria and several major retailers carry it verbatim.

One name, three formulas

Fakhar is the worst case we found. Fragrantica’s Fakhar Black gives apple, bergamot and ginger over lavender, sage, juniper and geranium, onto tonka, cedar, amberwood and vetiver. Walmart sells Fakhar for Men as silkwood blossom, mandarin and orange blossom over night-blooming cereus and Bulgarian rose, onto vanilla, sandalwood and tonka. Our own listing gives a third pyramid entirely.

Only bergamot appears on more than one. Nothing appears on all three. Lattafa sells Fakhar Black, Fakhar Men, Fakhar Women, Fakhar Rose, Fakhar Platin and Fakhar Extrait, and the market treats several as interchangeable.

Retailers paste the wrong product’s notes

One retailer sells Eternal Vanille listing grapefruit and plum, heliotrope and orchid, amber, vanilla and benzoin. That is Eternal Oud’s pyramid, a different fragrance in the same line.

Another lists Oud for Glory’s base notes as “initio oud wood, patchouli and musk”, having pasted the competitor’s brand name into the ingredient list. A content site publishes a wholly invented pyramid of bergamot, lemon and green apple over rose, geranium and jasmine, and dates the launch five years early.

The databases disagree with each other

Fragrantica dates Eternal Vanille to 2025 and files it as gourmand. Parfumo dates it 2026 and calls it smoky-spicy.

The originals vary between batches too

A Fragrantica user reports that Sauvage Elixir batches produced after 2025 smell noticeably drier and woodier than earlier ones, with others staying sweeter, and is asking owners to share batch codes so buyers can tell them apart.

So the reference fragrance is not fixed either. Comparing a 2026 Lattafa to a 2022 Dior is not the same exercise as comparing it to a 2026 Dior, and no dupe list anywhere accounts for this.

Lattafa omits notes the database includes

Lattafa’s own sites give Mashrabya’s base as vanilla, caramel and patchouli. Fragrantica adds oud smoke. That is not a minor discrepancy in a fragrance sold on its smokiness, and it changes the score against Kilian Smoking Hot from 50% to 83% depending which list you count.

The original is often not one fragrance

Lancome Oud Bouquet exists in at least four versions: 2014 by Christophe Raynaud, 2016 by Fabrice Pellegrin, a 2018 edition with no perfumer credited, and a 2024 Absolue release. Score Oud Mood against the 2016 notes and you get 33%. Against the 2014 description you get 60%. Same two bottles.

Sauvage Elixir, L’Interdit and Black Opium have all been reformulated or heavily flankered. Any comparison to “the original” means little without naming the version.

Brands publish two different lists of their own

Kilian’s full description of Angels’ Share names seven notes. Its layering set page gives “main notes” as three. Fragrantica lists nine. Khamrah scores 33%, 57% or 44% depending which you pick, without a single note changing.

AI text is being read as evidence

Fragrantica now generates pros and cons summaries from member reviews, labelled as AI-generated and possibly inaccurate. One claims Mashrabya nails about 90% of Smoking Hot. That figure looks like community consensus and is machine-written. It will be quoted as fact by sites that skip the disclaimer.

Two variables nobody controls for

Maceration. A reviewer rating Al Qiam Gold at 95% to Ombre Nomade specifies that was after four months of home maceration. Another found Fakhar Black harsh and synthetic on first wear and only convincing after six months. Two honest people can report wildly different results from the same juice depending on how long the bottle has rested.

Name collisions. Qaa’ed and Qaed Al Fursan are unrelated fragrances four letters apart. Oud Mood, Oud Mood Elixir and Oud Mood Reminiscence Silver share a name and little else. Ameer Al Oudh from 2016 and Ameer Al Oudh Intense Oud from 2021 are different fragrances. Al Qiam Gold and Al Qiam Silver are different. We made one of these errors ourselves during this research, working from retailer copy before switching to source data.

What this means if you are buying

Treat every percentage you see online, including ours, as evidence rather than a promise.

Check which version of the original a comparison refers to. If it does not say, the number is unanchored.

Give a new bottle four to six weeks before judging it. The maceration effect is real and it is large enough to change verdicts.

Read the note list, not the product name. Half the Badee Al Oud line contains no oud.

And sample before committing when the comparison is the reason you are buying. Our sample range exists largely for that.

Frequently asked questions

How accurate are Lattafa dupe percentages online?

Most are unsourced. No retailer or blog is running laboratory analysis, and the underlying note data varies between the brand’s own website, Fragrantica, Parfumo and individual sellers. A percentage without a stated method and source is a marketing device.

Which Lattafa is the closest dupe?

Badee Al Oud Oud for Glory against Initio Oud for Greatness. It reproduces all six published notes, brand and database agree on the pyramid, and two independent owners of both put the dry-downs at around 95% identical.

Is Khamrah a dupe of Angels’ Share?

It shares four of Kilian’s seven published notes: cinnamon, praline, vanilla and tonka bean. It does not contain cognac, the note Angels’ Share is built around. An interpretation rather than a clone.

Why do note lists differ between websites?

Because no single authority exists. Brands publish marketing-led lists, databases publish community-maintained ones, and retailers copy whichever they find first. We found Lattafa’s own site contradicting Fragrantica on three products and three incompatible pyramids for one product name.

Does a low score mean the dupe is bad?

No. It means the formulas differ on paper. Ameer Al Oudh shares one note with Replica By The Fireplace and is still described by Fragrantica users as a lighter version of it, because different materials can produce similar effects.

How often is this page updated?

As verification continues. Ten pairs are scored at the time of writing, with the remainder of our Lattafa range in progress. Pairs move between the two tables as brand-source checks complete.

Method notes for anyone checking our working

Scores count unique notes, not pyramid positions. Where a note appears in two tiers of the same pyramid, we count it once. Near-matches are not counted: amber and amberwood are treated as different notes, as are vanilla and bourbon vanilla where a brand distinguishes them.

We do not average conflicting sources. Where sources disagree we state both and name which we used.

If you spot an error, tell us and we will correct it and say so. That is the whole point of publishing the method.