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01Dua FragrancesLionheart

Lionheart

by Dua Fragrances

● Top pickHigh match

~$45–55

Burberry Hero (2021, Aurelien Guichard) is a fresh woody-aromatic masculine built on sparkling bergamot up top, a juniper-and-black-pepper heart, and a signature base of three cedarwoods (Atlas, Virginian, Himalayan) that gives it its dry, woody crescendo. The EDT, EDP and Parfum/Intense do not smell identical, which matters when matching a clone: most alternatives land closer in the cedar-heavy drydown than in Hero's bright citrus-juniper opening. The one alternative that can be verified independently (name and pairing confirmed on the clone house's own product page) is Dua Fragrances 'Lionheart', an extrait explicitly built as their interpretation of Hero with a matching bergamot / juniper / black-pepper / triple-cedar structure. Several budget designer-clone names circulate on dupe-listicle sites (variously 'Maison Alhambra Hero', 'Armaf Hunter'-type releases, Fragrance World and Paris Corner interpretations), but those appear only on single-source aggregator/listicle pages and could not be independently corroborated for a real SKU and a confirmed Hero pairing, so they are deliberately left out rather than reported unverified. Confidence is moderate: Hero is popular enough that house-level clones exist, but organic, cross-thread community consensus on a specific best budget dupe was thin in this search.