LL167 The Noir 29

The Noir 29 is a dark, quietly sensual Le Labo release built around spiced fig and a tobacco-hay dry-down, despite the 'black tea' name suggesting something else entirely. Jubilee's LL167 has earned some of the strongest praise across the whole range, with one reviewer calling it 'precisely the same smell' as the original and another describing it as the first dupe house where you can genuinely tell there's real perfume oil behind it. The dupe captures the fig-bay leaf opening and the cedar-vetiver heart well. Where it drifts slightly is the base: the original's tobacco-hay finish has a drier, more restrained smokiness, while LL167 pushes a touch more sweetness through the dry-down. For a scent this well-regarded as a dupe, that's a minor gap rather than a real miss.