Bond No. 9 Lafayette Street

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Bond No. 9 Lafayette Street opens with Bergamot and Coriander; a heart of Ambroxan, Apple and Vanilla; drying down to Woods, Tonka Bean and Ambergris, from notes Brand-Official publishes. Those notes read as amber, citrus, fresh, fruity, sweet, woody, the coarse families Brand-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 Lafayette Street runs $349.99 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 Lafayette Street by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Lafayette 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 Lafayette Street 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.

Rasasi Hawas for Him (shares Ambergris, Apple, Woods); Afnan 9 Pm Night Out (shares Apple, Ambroxan, Tonka Bean); Versace Eros (shares Apple, Ambroxan, Tonka Bean). These share specific notes with Lafayette Street, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Lafayette 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 Lafayette Street, and has its own page.

Lafayette Street reads as amber, citrus, fresh, fruity, sweet, woody. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Versace Dylan Blue, Lattafa Oud Lail Maleki and Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio Intense nearby. We rank them by how many of Lafayette Street's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Lafayette Street, and each has its own page.