Stronger With You

Emporio Armani's Stronger With You made its name as an easy, sweet oriental - pink pepper and cardamom spice over a warm chestnut, vanilla and amber base that most reviewers rate as a comforting, cosy date-night scent rather than an all-day workhorse. Clean Shaven's version opens close to the original, with a recognisable spicy-sweet pink pepper burst and enough vanilla sweetness to feel familiar straight away. The difference shows in the base: the real Stronger With You develops a rounded, slightly nutty chestnut-amber warmth that lingers pleasantly for several hours, while the dupe's dry-down flattens out into a simpler vanilla-sugar note that fades faster and loses the original's cosiness. It's a reasonable way to try the sweet-spicy concept for a night out, though don't expect it to hold up as long into the evening as the genuine bottle would.