No.174 Black XS

Eden's No.174 takes on Paco Rabanne's Black XS, an oriental woody that built its reputation on the odd but addictive pairing of fresh citrus and gourmand praline. The Eden version opens with a brighter, more immediate lemon and sage blast before the chocolatey praline note takes over almost straight away, whereas the original lets that sweetness build more gradually against the cinnamon and black cardamom spice. Community reviews of Eden's dupe line describe this note as accurate to the nose in the first couple of hours but flatter overall, missing some of the rosewood's textural depth in the base and fading into a simpler patchouli-amber musk well before the eight-hour mark the original can reach on skin. It still nails the core identity that makes Black XS recognisable across a room, just with less nuance and a shorter lifespan, which tracks with what people expect from a budget aftershave built to approximate rather than replicate a discontinued-adjacent niche-leaning designer scent.