2 clones found

01The Dua BrandPredator

Predator

by The Dua Brand

● Top pickModerate match

~$60

02Fragrance WorldImperium X

Imperium X

by Fragrance World

Moderate match

~$20–30

A masculine fruity-chypre/fougere with slight chypre undertones: a bright lemon-bergamot-mandarin-orange citrus opening leading to a jasmine-cistus-pineapple-galbanum heart, drying down into a dense, smoky-woody base of oakmoss, patchouli, leather, tobacco, rum, cypress/fir balsam, ambergris, incense and amber. Launched by Roja Parfums (Roja Dove) in 2022 as an expensive niche release, Apex has only an emerging, thin clone landscape rather than the years of settled community consensus that older powerhouses enjoy. The two genuinely corroborated alternatives are The Dua Brand's 'Predator' — which Dua itself openly lists as inspired by Apex, with a note set that tracks the original closely — and Fragrance World's 'Imperium X', consistently paired with Apex across multiple independent retailer listings though with scattered reports of weak performance. There is little independent side-by-side wear-test discussion (Reddit/YouTube) for either, so match-quality claims here are tentative; dupe-ranking listicles and note-matching sites that surfaced other names (e.g. Lattafa Ajayeb, Zara) were not independently corroborated and are excluded.