What Is DUA Desert Flower a Dupe Of?

If you are wondering what DUA Desert Flower is a dupe of, the answer is Louis Vuitton Fleur du Désert. This is a clone pairing built around the idea of honeyed flowers, cinnamon and oud. Here are the notes worth comparing before you choose a bottle.

The idea behind the comparison

Honey, cinnamon, rose, jasmine and orange blossom connect the floral and sweet parts of this pairing. Oud, ambroxan and ambrette give you another side to compare. If you are curious about a floral oud rather than a purely woody one, those contrasts make this a useful place to start.

How do their notes compare?

DUA gives this scent a single note list. Its listed notes include Orange Blossom, Musk Mallow, Cinnamon, Ambroxan, Jasmine, Honey and Rose. That gives you a few specific notes to look for in a sample.

Louis Vuitton Fleur du Désert lists Honey, Cinnamon, Jasmine, Rose, Orange Blossom, Agarwood (Oud) and Ambroxan among its notes. You can see the complete profiles above, with each scent’s own labels and structure. A note list describes the idea; it does not tell you the proportions or guarantee that two fragrances develop the same way.

What would we compare on skin?

We would compare the honey with the rose and orange blossom first. Then check how the oud changes that impression once the opening has settled.

Which one should you choose?

If honeyed flowers, cinnamon and oud is the idea you want to explore, this pairing is a useful place to start. We’d choose between them after checking the actual bottle size, current offer and return terms, rather than assuming one is automatically the better deal. Try the same number of sprays on separate wrists if you can, and compare them again after the opening has settled.