Xerjoff Fars

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Xerjoff Fars opens with Cade, Lavender and Bergamot; a heart of Cedar, Geranium and Jasmine; drying down to Amber, Vetiver, Patchouli and Sandalwood, from notes Xerjoff (official) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, aromatic, floral, amber, woody, the coarse families Xerjoff (official) 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 Xerjoff Fars runs $188.99 at FragranceNet.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them.

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

Xerjoff Fars is listed as unisex, marketed for anyone, which is how we'd wear it too. Fragrance has no inherent gender; the label just reflects how the retailer sells it.

Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir (shares Geranium, Lavender, Vetiver); Armaf Club De Nuit Urban Man Elixir (shares Geranium, Lavender, Vetiver); Creed Viking Cologne (shares Geranium, Lavender, Vetiver). These share specific notes with Fars, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Fars's cited notes they actually share, weighting rarer notes heavier than ubiquitous ones. Each is its own fragrance with real, sourced notes, not a copy of Fars, and has its own page.

Fars reads as citrus, aromatic, floral, amber, woody. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gioia, Al Haramain Amber Oud Smell Dubai and Mancera Aoud Violet nearby. We rank them by how many of Fars's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Fars, and each has its own page.