What Is Intelligent Carbon a Dupe Of?

Intelligent Carbon is a clone of Carolina Herrera CH Men EDT. We rate the similarity at 86%. The link is the fresh, woody leather style, with Carbon adding a longer list of sweet and earthy supporting notes.

How the notes connect

Carbon lists bergamot, grapefruit and grass in its opening, followed by woody notes, jasmine, saffron, nutmeg and violet. Its base brings in leather and cashmeran with sandalwood, oakmoss, amber, sugar and vetiver. There is plenty going on, but leather, woods and that green citrus start give you a useful way into the comparison.

Carolina Herrera's current CH Men note pyramid is shorter: grapefruit and violet leaves, saffron and cyclamen, then cashmeran and leather. Grapefruit, saffron, leather and cashmeran appear on both sides. Carbon's violet and CH Men's violet leaves are listed differently, so we keep those labels separate in the note comparison.

Where Carbon takes its own route

Carbon explicitly includes sugar and amber in its base, plus grass, nutmeg and vetiver elsewhere in the pyramid. CH Men's current official list doesn't include those notes. That gives Carbon a broader sweet, spicy and grassy framework on paper, while CH Men's published profile puts the focus on its floral leather and woods.

A short note list doesn't describe every smell in a fragrance, so missing labels aren't proof that an accord is absent. Our 86% score is the more useful answer to how close we find the overall scent.

Is Carbon worth a look?

If you like CH Men's combination of a fresh opening and a leather base, Carbon is an easy one to consider. Use the differences above to decide what you want to compare on skin, especially Carbon's sweetness. The reference here is CH Men Eau de Toilette, not CH Men Privé or CH Men Swing.

See Intelligent Carbon and CH Men EDT for their individual profiles and buying options.