Givenchy Gentleman Original

You can buy the genuine Givenchy Gentleman Original straight from FragranceNet.com. The real bottle comes first; the accessible alternatives below are there if you'd rather spend less.

Givenchy Gentleman Original opens with Pear; a heart of Orris and Lavender; drying down to Leather and Patchouli, from notes Nordstrom (Givenchy) publishes. Those notes read as aromatic, fruity, powdery, woody, leather, the coarse families Nordstrom (Givenchy) 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 Givenchy Gentleman Original runs $53.19 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 Gentleman Original by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Gentleman Original, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

Givenchy Gentleman Original 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.

Givenchy Gentleman (shares Orris, Pear, Leather); Tom Ford Fabulous (shares Orris, Leather, Lavender); Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous (shares Orris, Leather, Lavender). These share specific notes with Gentleman Original, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Gentleman Original'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 Gentleman Original, and has its own page.

Gentleman Original reads as aromatic, fruity, powdery, woody, leather. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Xerjoff Aqua Regia, Liquides Imaginaires Lunatique and Afnan 9 Pm Night Out nearby. We rank them by how many of Gentleman Original's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Gentleman Original, and each has its own page.