Amouage Interlude

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

Amouage Interlude opens with Bergamot, Oregano and Allspice; a heart of Amber, Incense, Labdanum, Opoponax and Vanilla; drying down to Leather, Oud, Oud, Patchouli and Sandalwood, from notes Amouage (official) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, aromatic, fruity, sweet, amber, woody, the coarse families Amouage (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 Amouage Interlude runs $375.89 at FragranceNet.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them; the "smells-like" alternatives start around $39.

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

Amouage Interlude 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.

AromaPassions Balance Extrait de Parfum is the alternative we list first for Interlude, ranked on shared cited accords then price, at $39 against $375.89 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 Interlude, not replicate it, so we link the real bottle first and let you judge for yourself.

Amouage Interlude Man (shares Oregano, Allspice, Opoponax); Afnan Supremacy Incense (shares Oregano, Opoponax, Labdanum); Afnan Supremacy Noir (shares Oregano, Opoponax, Labdanum). These share specific notes with Interlude, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Interlude'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 Interlude, and has its own page.

Interlude reads as citrus, aromatic, fruity, sweet, amber, woody. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Xerjoff Louis Xv De Venoge, Fragrance Du Bois Milano and Liquides Imaginaires Lunatique nearby. We rank them by how many of Interlude's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Interlude, and each has its own page.