Amouage Search

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

Amouage Search opens with Lemon, Lime and Mandarin; a heart of Pepper and Elemi; drying down to Cade and Vetiver, from notes Amouage (official) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, spicy, woody, smoky, 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 Search runs $284.89 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 Search by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Search, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

Amouage Search 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.

Mancera Vetiver Sensuel (shares Lime, Pepper, Lemon); Armaf Odyssey Wild One (shares Elemi, Pepper, Lemon); Creed Himalaya (shares Pepper, Lemon, Mandarin). These share specific notes with Search, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Search'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 Search, and has its own page.

Search reads as citrus, spicy, woody, smoky. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Xerjoff 1861 Zefiro, Afnan 9 Am Dive and Al Haramain Amber Oud Bleu nearby. We rank them by how many of Search's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Search, and each has its own page.