4 clones found

01ArmafOdyssey Mandarin Sky

Odyssey Mandarin Sky

by Armaf

● Top pickHigh match

~$25–35

02Maison AlhambraCandid Pour Homme

Candid Pour Homme

by Maison Alhambra

High match

~$18–25

03Paris CornerSolitude Man (Pendora)

Solitude Man (Pendora)

by Paris Corner

Moderate match

~$18–22

04Al WataniahDuha

Duha

by Al Wataniah

Moderate match

~$8–15

Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal Pour Homme (2021) is a fresh-gourmand masculine built on blood mandarin and clary sage over a honey-caramel and tonka heart, dried out by a woody vetiver base — bright and sweet up top but not cloying, a reliable crowd-pleaser. It is a fairly recent release, so clone consensus is moderate rather than deep, and it lives mostly on YouTube/retailer chatter plus Fragrantica 'alternative' listings rather than heavy long-running Reddit threads. The most-praised dupe is Armaf Odyssey Mandarin Sky, repeatedly called a near-identical rendition (with a touch more mandarin and a slightly more tonka, less caramel skew); Maison Alhambra's Candid Pour Homme is explicitly built as a Scandal Pour Homme alternative and is widely regarded as one of the few that nailed the DNA. Cheaper Arab-house takes (Paris Corner Solitude, Al Wataniah Duha) match the accord closely on paper but are held back by weaker or more variable performance. Note: popular listicles (ScentMetric) mispair this scent with unrelated oud fragrances like Lattafa Bade'e Al Oud Sublime — those are wrong and excluded.