Nomad, She Wrote

This dupe opens with the same raspberry-and-saffron combination that gives Louis Vuitton's Ombre Nomade its unlikely, jammy-meets-smoky opening, before Turkish rose and a resinous oud wood take over the heart. Birch adds a touch of the original's smoky character, though at a noticeably lower volume than the real thing, which reviewers routinely describe as having genuinely atomic sillage and longevity. The base of amber, benzoin and musk resolves into something warm and velvety rather than the original's leather-and-incense-heavy finish. It's a fair, wearable take on rose-and-oud that captures the fruit-meets-smoke concept clearly, but doesn't chase the sheer scale and darkness that makes Ombre Nomade divisive in the first place, which may suit anyone who found the original a little too much.