Fahrenheit

Dior Fahrenheit, launched in 1988, is built around a violet-leather accord with a distinctive petroleum note that opens with juicy mandarin, lavender and nutmeg before settling into black leather, vetiver and amber - a genuinely divisive, industrial-smelling classic that still has a devoted following. Clean Shaven's version captures the broad strokes: a spicy citrus opening giving way to a leathery, slightly waxy heart, and there's a hint of that petrol-adjacent character in the first hour that fans of the original will recognise. Where it falls short is depth - Dior's violet note has a real floral-metallic complexity that shapeshifts for hours, and the dupe's version reads more as a generic leather-suede accord without that shift. The base is noticeably lighter too; the original's earthy vetiver and amber dry-down that carries Fahrenheit from day into night just isn't there, so this fades to a faint leather-musk within a few hours. It's a fair way to sample the Fahrenheit idea - that petroleum-violet oddity - without committing to a full bottle of the real thing, but anyone who loves the original's polarising intensity will find this a much quieter, shorter echo of it.