Guerlain Shalimar

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

Guerlain Shalimar opens with Bergamot and Lemon; a heart of Tonka Bean and Opoponax; drying down to Iris, Vanilla, Incense and Benzoin, from notes Nordstrom publishes. Those notes read as citrus, floral, sweet, amber, the coarse families Guerlain 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 Guerlain Shalimar runs $81.89 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 $12.95.

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

Guerlain Shalimar is listed as a women's fragrance by the retailer. That's a marketing label, not a rule: fragrance has no gender, and plenty of "women's" scents are worn by anyone. We show how it's sold and leave the wearing to you.

Unbranded Shalimar is the alternative we list first for Shalimar, ranked on shared cited accords then price, at $12.95 against $81.89 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 Shalimar, not replicate it, so we link the real bottle first and let you judge for yourself.

Amouage Reflection 45 (shares Opoponax, Benzoin, Incense); Xerjoff 1861 Naxos (shares Incense, Lemon, Tonka Bean); Xerjoff Naxos (shares Incense, Lemon, Tonka Bean). These share specific notes with Shalimar, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Shalimar'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 Shalimar, and has its own page.

Shalimar reads as citrus, floral, sweet, amber. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Carolina Herrera 212 VIP, Hermes 24 Faubourg and Afnan 9 PM nearby. We rank them by how many of Shalimar's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Shalimar, and each has its own page.