Bond No. 9 Gold Street

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Bond No. 9 Gold Street opens with Jasmine and Pink Pepper; a heart of Suede and Iris; drying down to Ambrette, Oakmoss, Tolu Balsam and Vanilla, from notes Bond No. 9 (official) publishes. Those notes read as floral, powdery, spicy, sweet, woody, leather, the coarse families Bond No. 9 (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 Bond No. 9 Gold Street runs $378.69 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 Gold Street by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Gold Street, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

Bond No. 9 Gold Street 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.

Creed Centaurus (shares Tolu Balsam, Pink Pepper, Jasmine); Diptyque Fleur De Peau (shares Ambrette, Iris, Pink Pepper); Glossier You (shares Ambrette, Iris, Pink Pepper). These share specific notes with Gold Street, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Gold Street'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 Gold Street, and has its own page.

Gold Street reads as floral, powdery, spicy, sweet, woody, leather. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Creed Delphinus, Liquides Imaginaires Lunatique and Givenchy Gentleman nearby. We rank them by how many of Gold Street's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Gold Street, and each has its own page.