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01JacomoSilences

Silences

by Jacomo

● Top pickModerate match

~$25–45

Chanel N°19 is the icy, aristocratic green classic: a galbanum-and-bergamot blast up top over a powdery iris/orris and rose heart, drying down to vetiver, leather and oakmoss. It has essentially no clone-house dupes — Armaf, Dua, Alexandria, Al Haramain and the rest simply don't reproduce this austere green-iris genre, so anyone searching for a $30 Middle-Eastern clone will come up empty. What the community actually recommends are peer designer/niche green florals in the same family rather than true budget copies: the single most repeatedly cited (across Basenotes, Fragrantica and blog threads for well over a decade) is Jacomo Silences, an inexpensive, now-hard-to-find designer that shares N°19's cold galbanum-green opening — though consensus is candid that it is 'no direct substitute,' skipping much of N°19's floral powder and reading darker and mossier. Other names that come up (Annick Goutal Heure Exquise, Balmain Vent Vert, Chanel's own Cristalle, Sisley Eau de Soir, Dior Dioressence) are adjacent green/iris scents, not dupes. Treat this as thin, moderate-confidence clone consensus: N°19 is more 'admired classic with a few kindred spirits' than a fragrance with a definitive cheaper twin.