Fucking Fabulous

Dupe Fab leans hard into the almond-and-vanilla signature that makes Tom Ford's Fucking Fabulous instantly recognisable, opening on a bittersweet, faintly boozy lavender-clary sage combination before the almond takes hold. That marzipan sweetness is genuinely close to the original's opening hours, which is the easiest part of any dupe to get right. Where it diverges is the heart and base: the real Fucking Fabulous builds a dense, almost dirty leather-orris accord underpinned by cashmere wood and tonka that keeps unfolding for the better part of a day, and this version's leather and orris feel noticeably thinner, settling into a pleasant but conventional amber-tonka warmth rather than Tom Ford's more textured, skin-close leather. It is a fair, wearable echo of the shape rather than a forensic match - closer on the opening than the drydown, and shorter-lived across the board. Best worn for evenings or nights out where the almond-leather combination still reads as confident and a little daring.