Bond No. 9 New Haarlem

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Bond No. 9 New Haarlem opens with Lavender, Bergamot and Green Notes; a heart of Coffee and Cedar; drying down to Amber, Vanilla, Tonka Bean and Patchouli, from notes Bond No. 9 (official) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, green, aromatic, sweet, amber, woody, 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 New Haarlem runs $244.99 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 New Haarlem by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke New Haarlem, 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 New Haarlem 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.

Afnan 9 PM (shares Tonka Bean, Lavender, Amber); Armaf Odyssey Spectra Rainbow Edition (shares Tonka Bean, Lavender, Amber); Al Haramain Gold Crystal Sapphire (shares Green Notes, Lavender, Cedar). These share specific notes with New Haarlem, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of New Haarlem'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 New Haarlem, and has its own page.

New Haarlem reads as citrus, green, aromatic, sweet, amber, woody. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Lattafa The Kingdom, Nishane Unutamam and Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio Intense nearby. We rank them by how many of New Haarlem's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of New Haarlem, and each has its own page.