What We're Looking For In A Black Orchid Dupe

Tom Ford Black Orchid is a hugely popular fragrance with a loyal fan base. However, many of these top fragrances share similar base notes and scent combinations that can be easily identified and mimicked in a good quality black orchid clone.

It is essential to break down the fragrance notes used to make Tom Ford Black Orchid to understand how to make a good dupe.   

The first olfactory experience opens with a multi-level mix of fruit and truffle. The sweet top notes quickly mellow with hints of creamy vanilla and chocolate coming through.   While still sweet, the creamy edge of vanilla and chocolate cools the sweet notes down and prevents it from leaving a lingering sickly-sweet first impression.   The third wave of warmth comes through with hints of amber, adding some base to the scent experience. Throughout, you will get little hits of warm, rich spices that act to balance out the heady sweetness you get when you first inhale the fragrance.   Overall you are left with a lingering rich, warm and fruity fragrance with a lasting mysterious edge. We can see why this has become such a popular fragrance for both sexes.  

Black Orchid Scent Profile

Black orchid top notes:  bergamot, blackcurrant, gardenia, jasmine, lemon, mandarin, truffle, and ylang-ylang.

The middle notes: gardenia, lotus, jasmine, orchid, ylang-ylang, fruity notes, and spices.
     
The base notes: amber, chocolate, incense, patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla, vetiver, and white musk.

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Black Orchid: A scent tailor-made made for winter

Tom Ford Black Orchid is a powerful fragrance that is both sweet and strong, making it a favourite fragrance to wear during the colder winter months. The fragrance adds a lot of warmth on a cold and chilly day, raising your mood and energising your soul.   However, Tom Ford Black Orchid is an ideal fragrance to wear regardless of the season for romantic evenings and dates. It is dark, mysterious and seductive enough to create warm feelings in those around you.   But because it is such a strong scent, we wouldn't say it was a good choice for the office as it may be too overpowering.

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The history of Tom Ford Black Orchid

Best described as being a rich, sweet and dark combination of notes, when this line was released in 2006, it stormed onto the fragrance chart and quickly became a huge seller.

But what makes Black Orchid so unique? Back in 2006, the fragrance industry was dominated by many big names with a heavy and dark scent. Back then, it was a popular phase, and Black Orchid ticked all the right boxes for a fashionable scent.

Created initially as a scent for women, it didn't take long for men to discover that the rich, dark notes of Black Orchid worked really well for them too. This saw a further explosion in demand from both men and women and saw Black Orchid morph into a top unisex fragrance.

Are Black Orchid Dupes Any Good?

Fragrance clones make up a large market, and there are dedicated fragrance houses that work hard to make fragrances that are very similar to expensive designer brand fragrance lines.

While many fragrance houses get close to the original recipe, they will never be precisely the same. But they do serve a valuable service. If you are unsure about splashing out on the original expensive fragrance, then trying out a close copy can be a more cost-effective way to see if you like the scent and if it would be worth your investment.

Some Tom Ford Black Orchid fragrance dupes smell so similar that you will get a good impression of how the original scent will sit with you day in and day out but at a much lower price.

Why Is Black Orchid So Expensive?

It's the Tom Ford logo, 100% the logo. The quality is good, but there isn't much reason for chosing it over something else made with the same ingredients, there's no hand made history, expensive special ingredient etc. It's the logo.

The Best Black Orchid Copy: Orchid by Copycat

We conducted a side-by-side test of Tom Ford Black Orchid and Copycat Orchid and honestly they were almost identical.     Inspired by Black Orchid Notes Gardenia, Blackcurrant and Ylang-ylang, we could pick up the heady sweetness of fresh berries paired with the warmer notes of amber and spices that gave it the bass notes it needed to ground the fragrance, the black orchid dupe is perhaps ever so slightly heavier on the blackcurrant notes, but there was no way to tell after 5 minutes on test strips or the skin.    

The scent profile of the Copycat Orchid matched up exactly, and the company managed to nail the Tom Ford Black Orchid experience perfectly. With such a good copy available on the market, you have to question why anyone would pay full price for the real thing.   

Our tests also proved that Copycat Orchid has just as much staying power as the original Tom Ford Black Orchid. Our testers could still smell the fragrance a few hours after application. The heavy and dark nature of the fragrance also helps with its longevity, meaning it was still pleasantly lingering after a long night out.   Copycat Orchid blends an alluring range of fragrances, such as chocolate, citrus, sandalwood and vetiver, to create a scent that works perfectly for both men and women. It makes a heady combination that most definitely isn't for shrinking violets.     

Like the original Tom Ford Black Orchid, Copycat Orchid is a rich and bold fragrance laced with creamy chocolate, zingy bergamot and warm spices, creating an exotic and mysterious aura around those who dare to wear it. It is undoubtedly a fragrance that will help you stand out from the crowd at special events.