Cheaper alternatives

Cheaper alternatives to DS & Durga Bowmakers

Bowmakers by DS & Durga is an unisex eau de parfum in the niche price tier. These 10 fragrances cost less and smell close to it.

What to wear instead

• Gucci Guilty Absolute designer · 72% note match, 2 tiers cheaper. They share amber, cypress and cedarwood.
• Lalique Encre Noire Sport budget · 67% note match, 3 tiers cheaper. They share amber, cypress and cedarwood.
• Swiss Arabian Echoes of St. Moritz budget · 60% note match, 3 tiers cheaper. They share amber, cypress, cedarwood and oakmoss.
• Dossier Ambery Saffron budget · 58% note match, 3 tiers cheaper. They share amber, cedarwood and oakmoss.
• Boy Smells Hinoki Fantôme premium · 57% note match, 1 tier cheaper. They share amber, cedarwood and oakmoss.
• Aesop Hwyl premium · 56% note match, 1 tier cheaper. They share cypress, cedarwood and oakmoss.
• Calvin Klein CK One budget · 55% note match, 3 tiers cheaper. They share amber, cedarwood and oakmoss.
• Lake & Skye Apaaray premium · 54% note match, 1 tier cheaper. They share amber, cedarwood and oakmoss.
• Versace Man Eau Fraiche designer · 52% note match, 2 tiers cheaper. They share amber, cedarwood and oakmoss.
• Phlur Somebody Wood designer · 51% note match, 2 tiers cheaper. They share amber, cedarwood and oakmoss.

How these were picked

Ranked by shared notes, counting rare notes for more than the vanilla and musk nearly everything has, and base notes for more than the opening. A price tier is a band (budget, designer, premium, niche, luxury), not an exact price. “Sold as a dupe” means the catalogue records it as an imitation; the rest only match on paper.

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