Al Haramain Madinah

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

Al Haramain Madinah opens with Rose, Geranium, Bergamot and Orange; a heart of Jasmine, Orchid, Clove, Saffron, Sandalwood and Cedar; drying down to Musk, Amber, Sandalwood, Cedar and Cashmeran, from notes Al Haramain Official Store publishes. Those notes read as floral, citrus, spicy, woody, sweet, musky, the coarse families Al Haramain Official Store 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 Al Haramain Madinah runs $8.95 at FragranceShop.com as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them.

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

Al Haramain Madinah 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.

Amouage Jubilation Xxv (shares Orchid, Clove, Orange); Al Haramain Story Of My Life (shares Orange, Cedar, Sandalwood); Creed Viking (shares Clove, Orange, Cedar). These share specific notes with Madinah, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Madinah'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 Madinah, and has its own page.

Madinah reads as floral, citrus, spicy, woody, sweet, musky. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Tiziana Terenzi Afrodite, lattafa Ajwad and Lattafa Al Noble Safeer nearby. We rank them by how many of Madinah's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Madinah, and each has its own page.