John Varvatos Artisan

You can buy the genuine John Varvatos Artisan straight from FragranceShop.com. The real bottle comes first; the accessible alternatives below are there if you'd rather spend less.

John Varvatos Artisan reads as citrus, aromatic, floral, spicy, woody, the coarse families Macy's cites. How it wears depends on your skin and the concentration. We only publish notes and accords we can trace to a source.

The genuine John Varvatos Artisan runs $25.95 at FragranceShop.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them; the "smells-like" alternatives start around $12.95.

We rank the "smells-like" alternatives to Artisan by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Artisan, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

John Varvatos Artisan is listed as a men's fragrance by the retailer. That's a marketing label, not a rule: fragrance has no gender, and plenty of "men's" scents are worn by anyone. We show how it's sold and leave the wearing to you.

Unbranded Artisan is the alternative we list first for Artisan, ranked on shared cited accords then price, at $12.95 against $25.95 for the genuine bottle. Most alternative houses publish no scent profile of their own, so for those we show the original's cited accords rather than claim an independently verified match. It's meant to evoke Artisan, not replicate it, so we link the real bottle first and let you judge for yourself.

Artisan reads as citrus, aromatic, floral, spicy, woody. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Afnan 9 Am, Lattafa Blue Oud and Bond No. 9 Bond No.9 Dubai Garnet nearby. We rank them by how many of Artisan's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Artisan, and each has its own page.