1 clone found
Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal (2017, women's EDP) is a rich honeyed gourmand-floral: blood orange and mandarin up top, a creamy honey/gardenia/orange-blossom heart, and a warm patchouli-beeswax-caramel base — sweet, dense and instantly recognizable. The clone landscape for the original women's Scandal is unusually narrow and centers on a single well-established dupe: Maison Alhambra 'Candid', which the community repeatedly cites as the direct budget stand-in for the honey/beeswax profile. Note the naming split that trips people up — 'Candid' clones the original Scandal, 'So Candid' clones the So Scandal flanker, 'Candid Tonight' targets Scandal By Night, and Armaf 'Odyssey Mandarin Sky' / 'Candid Pour Homme' clone the men's Scandal Pour Homme (NOT this fragrance), so those are deliberately excluded here. Confidence is solid for Candid but the pool of genuinely-established original-Scandal clones is thin — most other 'dupes' floating around are designer smell-alikes (Paco Rabanne Fame, Britney Electric Fantasy) from ingredient-match listicles rather than clone-house SKUs.
Questions
- What is the cheapest dupe for Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal?
- Maison Alhambra Candid is the cheapest community-vetted dupe of Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal, typically around $25–33.
- What is the closest clone to Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal?
- Maison Alhambra Candid is the community's top pick, rated a high match.
- How many dupes of Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal are there?
- 1 community-vetted dupe of Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal: Maison Alhambra Candid.
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