Is Alexandria UK Truly Bronze a dupe of Balmain Beauty Bronze?
Where they differ
Biggest gaps first. The bolder side leads.
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How it unfolds
Notes
- Bronze
- Truly Bronze
- in both
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Which Should You Buy?
Bronze is a divisive beast: some find it a mesmerising, magical tobacco masterpiece, others a challenging, overly masculine hay-and-honey nightmare. If you like your scents dry, serious, and with a pronounced spicy-tobacco hit, you might just fall head over heels.
Truly Bronze follows Balmain Bronze's green-spice-tobacco-patchouli path, but simplifies the original's cedar-hay chypre texture into a more generic tobacco-woody accord, sacrificing some of the nuance and complexity that gives the designer version its identity.
Scent Profile
How They Wear
Mood
Notes
Top Notes
Top Notes
Heart Notes
Heart Notes
Base Notes
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Performance
Season and Occasion Fit
Seasons
A cold-weather scent - best worn in autumn and winter.
Occasions
Given its strong projection and heady nature, Bronze isn't suitable for office wear. Its distinct, sophisticated character makes it a good fit for formal events or evening dates where it can make a statement without being overpowering. Casual wear is pushing it; it's a scent that demands attention.
Seasons
Community season votes for Balmain Beauty Bronze, the fragrance this is built to match, favour autumn and winter.
Occasions
Wearers put Balmain Beauty Bronze, the fragrance this is built to match, at its best for formal occasions.
Similarity Breakdown
Our estimate of how alike these two fragrances smell, calculated from their published notes. It is a position on our scale, not a measured percentage of shared smell.
Shares 2 of its 5 notes, including Patchouli, Tobacco
Adds green notes and spicy notes, drops cedar and hay
Where to buy
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Bronze EDP
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Import charges may apply
These shops deliver to the United States from Italy. How import charges work
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