Often citedMaison Alhambra
Jean Lowe Immortel
Shares the original's DNA without landing it. The ginger is heavier and overpowers the citrus and aquatic notes the original keeps in balance — a rawer, twisted reading rather than a copy, and some owners pick up a pickle-juice edge the original does not have. Owners who have both put it around seventy percent. The widely repeated 95 percent figure comes, by the sub's own account, from people who have never smelled the original. A good fragrance on its own terms; longevity is a gamble.

