1 clone found

01RihannaRogue

Rogue

by Rihanna

● Top pickModerate match

~$20–35

The eponymous Bottega Veneta (2011) is the house's signature women's chypre: a bright bergamot and pink-pepper opening over jasmine sambac, settling into a suede-leather, oakmoss and patchouli drydown that the community prizes as an elegant, refined leather. It is now discontinued and increasingly pricey on the secondary market, and dupe-hunters repeatedly call it one of the harder scents to match — there is no serious clone-house (Dua, Alexandria, Armaf, Al Haramain) version of the women's signature, and generic 'inspired-by' oils like Zag Zodiak's '330 BV' rest on a single vendor's word. The one dupe with genuine, years-long consensus is the discontinued Rihanna Rogue (2013): forum and Reddit users converge on a roughly 90% match whose heart and suede/amber drydown are near-identical to BV, differing mainly in a sweeter, fruitier, creamier opening and a missing oakmoss edge — a budget stand-in for the profile rather than the refinement. Confidence is moderate: one well-vetted match, but thin overall consensus and both fragrances being discontinued.