5 clones found

01Dua FragrancesMojave Sand

Mojave Sand

by Dua Fragrances

● Top pickHigh match

~$34–39

02Alexandria FragrancesGhostbusters

Ghostbusters

by Alexandria Fragrances

High match

~$40–55

03OakchaDesert Glass

Desert Glass

by Oakcha

Moderate match

~$40–46

04DossierMusky Violet

Musky Violet

by Dossier

Moderate match

~$44–49

05ALT. FragrancesDesert Phantom

Desert Phantom

by ALT. Fragrances

Moderate match

~$30–40

Byredo Mojave Ghost (2014) is a soft, airy skin-scent built on ambrette, sapodilla/nesberry, magnolia and violet over a creamy sandalwood-cedar-ambergris drydown — clean, powdery-woody and famously subtle, which makes it hard to clone convincingly since so much of its charm is its restraint. The community's most repeated recommendations are dedicated house dupes rather than designer smell-alikes: Dua's Mojave Sand and Alexandria's Ghostbusters are the long-standing accuracy picks, with Oakcha's Desert Glass drawing heavy recent praise for closeness, and Dossier Musky Violet and ALT Desert Phantom rounding out the affordable field. Consensus is decent but scattered across retailer pages, Fragrantica boards and TikTok more than deep Reddit threads, and reviewers repeatedly note no dupe fully nails the original's delicate musk — so treat these as strong approximations. Note: ScentMetric-style lists float a 'Lattafa Eclat Blanc' pairing that could not be independently corroborated, so it was excluded.