What Is DUA Exclusif Royal Chariot a Dupe Of?

If you are wondering what DUA Exclusif Royal Chariot is a dupe of, the answer is Parfums de Marly Layton Exclusif. This is a clone pairing built around the idea of almond, flowers, oud, coffee and woods. Here are the notes worth comparing before you choose a bottle.

The idea behind the comparison

Exclusif Royal Chariot is the Layton Exclusif pairing. Almond, flowers, Laotian oud, coffee and woods all deserve attention here. The profiles also name civet and sweet base notes, which makes the whole arrangement more useful to compare than vanilla alone.

This guide uses Layton Exclusif, rather than the original Layton.

How do their notes compare?

DUA gives this scent a single note list. Its listed notes include Mandarin Orange, Guaiac Wood, Pink Pepper, Laotian Oud, Sandalwood, Water Lily and Patchouli. That gives you a few specific notes to look for in a sample.

Parfums de Marly Layton Exclusif lists Almond, Mandarin Orange, Bergamot, Watery Notes, Civet, Rose and Geranium 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’d compare the almond and flowers with the oud and coffee later. The listed civet note does not tell us the sourcing or composition of either fragrance.

Which one should you choose?

If almond, flowers, oud, coffee and woods 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.