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01Dua FragrancesEnigmatic Gem

Enigmatic Gem

by Dua Fragrances

● Top pickModerate match

~$60

Frederic Malle Uncut Gem is a real 2022 eau de parfum by perfumer Maurice Roucel, built from Roucel's personal cologne and marketed as a rugged, masculine spicy-leather amber: a bright ginger/bergamot/mandarin/nutmeg opening over a vetiver, olibanum and leather heart on an amber-musk base, with a heavy dose of ambery crystalline aromachemicals. It is a niche, relatively expensive release (roughly $300-470 retail) with almost no clone/dupe discussion in the community: Reddit and r/fragranceclones returned nothing, and Basenotes threads only offer a one-off personal comparison to Dior Homme 2020 Elixir (not a clone claim) plus a comment arguing that no cheaper fragrance does the same job. The one genuine clone-house version I can verify is Dua Fragrances' Enigmatic Gem, which Dua itself explicitly markets as its inspired expression of Uncut Gem and lists with a note set mirroring the original exactly. The pairing is reliable (Dua names the original directly; this is not a templated listicle placeholder), but there is no independent community testing of its accuracy, so match quality is unverified. Honest bottom line: as a niche release, Uncut Gem lacks any established clone consensus, and Dua's Enigmatic Gem is the only real, correctly-paired option rather than a vetted close match.