“For those new to the fragrance game: Creed's Aventus was released in 2010 and is considered one of the best fragrances ever made. A 100ml bottle retails for $435, although you can typically find it for around $250-ish. Club de Nuit Intense Man is the closest low-priced clone you can buy at $30-ish (Parfum Vintage is arguably slightly better, but the 100ml bottles cost $160). CDNIM's opening (i.e., the first 20 minutes or so) smell about 60% the same as Aventus, but the dry down is 95% the same. Due to the reformulation of Aventus after 2016, the fragrance has been highly inconsistent in terms of batch quality and performance. One could argue that this $30 clone is actually more similar to the pre-reformulation Aventus. Given retail pricing, you could buy 13 bottles of this for one bottle of Aventus at retail price, or eight bottles instead of one ~$250 bottles of Aventus. You simply cannot beat this price-to-performance ratio.”
