Kilian
One fragrance is widely sold as a cheaper version of this. Ranked strongest match first.
Green apple and brandy over warm oak and cinnamon — like an apple tart with a drink beside it.
2021
Widely agreedMawj
Appletini
Around 95 percent, from someone with the original in their all-time top five. A touch more sour-apple and less sweet, and up close the original is smoother — but in the air they are hard to tell apart. It performs better.
Ranking combines how widely wearers agree a fragrance is a dupe with how closely its notes and accords line up. “Strong match” means both signals agree; “loose match” means it is in the same family but noticeably different on skin.
Mawj Appletini is widely sold as a dupe of Kilian Apple Brandy on the Rocks. Around 95 percent, from someone with the original in their all-time top five. A touch more sour-apple and less sweet, and up close the original is smoother — but in the air they are hard to tell apart. It performs better.
Mawj Appletini is the closest we have on record. It is the one wearers name most consistently. Around 95 percent, from someone with the original in their all-time top five. A touch more sour-apple and less sweet, and up close the original is smoother — but in the air they are hard to tell apart. It performs better.
Yes, though only one: Mawj Appletini. It is the only fragrance we have found a first-hand comparison for.
No. A dupe is built to the same idea, not the same formula, and cheaper materials usually show in the opening and in how long it lasts. That is why every entry here says how it differs instead of giving a percentage. Of Mawj Appletini, for instance: Around 95 percent, from someone with the original in their all-time top five. A touch more sour-apple and less sweet, and up close the original is smoother — but in the air they are hard to tell apart. It performs better.
Green apple and brandy over warm oak and cinnamon — like an apple tart with a drink beside it.
Kilian Apple Brandy on the Rocks is a 2021 unisex Eau de Parfum, and it does what the name says with unusual literalness.
It opens on green apple, sharp and juicy, with a boozy edge that reads as calvados rather than sweet cider. Rum and cinnamon sit behind it. As it settles, oak and tonka arrive and the apple turns cooked rather than fresh, more like a tart than fruit off the tree.
The Liquors collection is built on this trick — take a drink, render it as a fragrance, keep it recognisable. This is one of the more successful attempts, partly because apple and wood is a combination that works on skin and partly because the boozy note never turns medicinal.
Longevity is respectable, roughly six to eight hours, with moderate projection.
It arrived after Angels' Share had already made the collection famous, and lives somewhat in its shadow. The clone houses have followed the same order of priority.