4 clones found

01Alexandria FragrancesRuthless

Ruthless

by Alexandria Fragrances

● Top pickHigh match

~$35–70

02Maison AlhambraVictorioso

Victorioso

by Maison Alhambra

High match

~$15–25

03Milton LloydFame & Glory

Fame & Glory

by Milton Lloyd

Moderate match

~$10–20

04RasasiHawas for Him

Hawas for Him

by Rasasi

Low match

~$25–35

Invictus (2013, notes: sea notes/grapefruit/mandarin top, bay leaf/jasmine heart, ambergris/guaiac wood/oakmoss/patchouli base) has a real but somewhat scattered clone landscape — muddied by the fact that Paco Rabanne has released many flankers (Aqua, Legend, Victory, Platinum, Intense) that get conflated with the original in reviews and even by clone houses themselves. Direct-hit dupes with matching note pyramids and cross-source corroboration are Alexandria Fragrances' Ruthless (near note-for-note match, well regarded within the Alexandria catalog) and Maison Alhambra's Victorioso (repeatedly singled out by independent reviewers as one of the better sub-$20 Invictus EDT clones, ~90% match per aggregator scoring). Milton Lloyd's Fame & Glory is a long-running budget dupe with matching notes but weaker, shorter-lived performance and uncertain current availability. Rasasi Hawas is the fragrance most frequently invoked in the same breath as Invictus ('the Invictus killer'), but its actual note structure diverges more (cinnamon, orange blossom, driftwood vs. the original's marine-citrus-guaiac profile), and community threads split on whether it's really chasing the original Invictus or Invictus Aqua specifically — so it's included with a caveat rather than as a top pick. Designer 'similar-style' fragrances like Azzaro Wanted and Jimmy Choo Man Intense come up constantly in these discussions too, but they're marketed as their own fragrances rather than dupes, so they're excluded here. Direct Reddit access was unavailable during this research (search engine blocked r/fragrance and r/fragranceclones as a crawl target), so consensus here leans on Fragrantica community board threads, Basenotes, and clone-house/clone-review sites rather than Reddit threads specifically — confidence is moderate rather than high as a result.