
French Avenue
Best Kilian Old Fashioned Dupe
French Avenue Royal Blend Vintage is a clone of Kilian Old Fashioned, with a 78% accuracy score and about 75% cheaper than the original.
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Royal Blend Vintage captures the essence of Old Fashioned's boozy, leather-forward profile reasonably well, with a solid whiskey and tobacco heart. However, the clone lacks the refined complexity and slightly smoky depth of the original, feeling somewhat more linear and less nuanced in the base where Kilian's version develops more sophistication.
The clone matches the overall scent family closely but with slightly less longevity (4-5 hours vs 6+ hours on original) and reduced sillage. The opening is nearly identical, but the original's mid-stage develops greater leather and smoke complexity that the clone doesn't fully replicate.
What people who wear French Avenue Royal Blend Vintage report, based on votes and reviews from a large fragrance community.
“Open with strong liquor scent, then sweetness creep out little by little while liquor in the opening tone down to balance the other note. Didn't smell bad, actually it's well blend and quality of scent is really good.When dry down it's smell like balsamic vanilla malt with tobacco but at this point it already become skin scent.Also performance on my skin is really lacking in both projection and longevity.Good fragrance, still lacking in performance even though I think maturation could improve on this but the scent profile is not my type.”
“Notes on here are incorrect.SEA Fragrance has posted the correct notes down in the reviews.Overall an amazing cologne that I absolutely love. While not the strongest and longest lasting. It's still very good especially for the price.In a way, it reminds me a bit of Bentley Intense & Lubin Idole. A sweet middle ground of the two. Boozey, warm, not too sweet. Overall. The juice inside this bottle. 10/10.”
“A not too bad substitute for drinking alone... (no, there is no fragrance with that name.:-)The brief opening has some boozy sugar.Alas, it´s no more than a glimpse, a single breath almost completely forgotten by the drydown.The main story is a sentimental comfort blanket which can trace its origins back to Shalimar edp and Heritage edp by Guerlain.FA Vintage isn´t as nuanced as the Guerlains but it´s a fairly good sophomore.”
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