Rasasi Hawas Black

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

Rasasi Hawas Black opens with Bergamot and Lemon; a heart of Cardamom, Cinnamon and Lavender; drying down to Amber, Musk and Oud, from notes FragranceX publishes. Those notes read as citrus, aromatic, spicy, amber, woody, musky, the coarse families FragranceX 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 Rasasi Hawas Black runs $28.95 at FragranceShop.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them; a real 5ml sample is $2.99.

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

Rasasi Hawas Black 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.

Xerjoff 1861 Zefiro (shares Cinnamon, Oud, Cardamom); Rasasi Hawas for Him (shares Cinnamon, Cardamom, Lemon); Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir (shares Cinnamon, Lemon, Lavender). These share specific notes with Hawas Black, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Hawas Black'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 Hawas Black, and has its own page.

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