Perfume dupes built to match the original, not the price tag.
The Inspired Collection: 2,400+ fragrance dupes recreated by Dua’s own perfumer at extrait strength and handcrafted in Los Angeles. $43 for the 34 ml bottle, instead of $300 to $495 for the name on the box.
Free US shipping over $65 · Vegan and cruelty-free · Made in the USA
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new scents released in 2025
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Dramatization
Take the labels away and the $452 disappears.
In the ad, people smell two unmarked bottles: the designer original and Dua’s inspired expression. Most pick with confidence. Most pick wrong. Nobody across the room knows what you paid. Only your card does.
Casino Royale Nights, inspired by Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait by MFK
Poseidon’s Absolu Elixir, inspired by Absolu Aventus by Creed
Caribbean Waters, inspired by Virgin Island Water by Creed
Bois Oudh, inspired by Oud Wood by Tom Ford
Original prices are approximate US retail and vary by retailer. Dua prices are live store prices for the 34 ml bottle.
So much of the price tag is the brand name, not the scent.
Open a $495 bottle and about $43 of it is fragrance. The rest is everything wrapped around it.
The licensed name
A designer house pays to put a fashion label on the cap, and you pay it back.
The campaign
Celebrity faces, magazine spreads, the video that played before this page. It is all in the bottle price.
The crystal and the box
Beautiful on a shelf. Invisible on your skin.
The counter
Department stores and duty-free take their cut before the bottle reaches you.
Dua skips all four. There is no name to license, no campaign to fund, no counter to pay. That is how affordable perfume dupes reach $43 without watering anything down: you stop paying for the branding and pay for the fragrance.
Built by a perfumer, not a committee.
Most fragrance dupes come from a contract lab working off a spec sheet. At Dua, the founder is the perfumer, and the recreation happens in-house in Los Angeles.
Deconstruct the original
Top, heart and base, note by note, down to the batch that fans argue about. Poseidon’s Elixir 13ZZ is built to the legendary Aventus 13ZZ batch.
Rebuild it at extrait strength
Every Inspired Collection bottle is an extrait de parfum at 33% oil concentration, where most designer bottles are 12 to 20% eau de parfum. That is the reason customers keep using the words “beast mode.”
Hand-fill in small batches, then drop it on Friday
New releases most weeks, 600 in 2025 alone. Once you find your first hit, there are 2,400 more to explore.
The Inspired Collection vs. the designer original
Dua Inspired Collection$43 · 34 ml extrait
Bottle for bottle, which one gives you:
Designer original$300 to $495
The designer bottle is bigger, 50 to 100 ml against 34 ml. It is also up to ten times the price at a lower concentration, so the extrait goes a long way.
Start with the ones everyone searches for.
Perfume dupes for her, cologne dupes for him, and plenty that work on anyone. Six of the most-searched fragrances in the world, recreated as Dua’s own inspired expressions.
Casino Royale Nights
Inspired by Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait, Maison Francis Kurkdjian
$43Original ~$49534 ml extrait
Poseidon’s Absolu Elixir
Inspired by Absolu Aventus, Creed
$43Original ~$45034 ml extrait
#Imagine
Inspired by Imagination, Louis Vuitton
$43Original ~$28034 ml extrait
Bois Oudh
Inspired by Oud Wood, Tom Ford
$43Original ~$30034 ml extrait
Miss Congeniality
Inspired by Delina Exclusif, Parfums de Marly
$43Original ~$21534 ml extrait
Savage Elixir
Inspired by Sauvage Elixir, Dior
$60Original ~$20034 ml extrait
2,400+ fragrances · Filter by For Him, For Her or Unisex
What happens after you order
Checkout
Free US shipping on orders over $65. You have 8 hours to change or cancel an order.
Made to order
Bottles are hand-filled in Los Angeles. Allow 4 to 6 business days of processing before your tracking number moves.
First spray
Extrait is dense. The opening is loud and a little sharp for the first minutes, then it settles into the scent you know.
The first two weeks
Fresh extrait keeps developing after it is bottled. Customers call it “letting it bloom.” It gets smoother and closer with wear.
Every Friday
New releases and returning favorites. This is the part nobody warns you about: you will come back.
Influencer Spotlight: feel the Dua love
Watch as influencers share their favorite Dua fragrances and bring our scents to life in their own style. Tap a card to play, sound off.
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Videos and products from theduabrand.com’s own influencer feed. Prices are live store prices.
What Dua lovers are saying
Clean Comfort
Into The Woods
Atelier Santal
Poseidon’s Berry Affair
Champagne Cream Mist
Her Instant Magic
Layers Of Vanilla
Sunlit Vanilla
Baby Mama
Vetiver Trails
Marked By X
Princeless TherapyMelissa M. Verified buyer
“I love this scent so much! It smells even better than the OG and lasts way longer.”
on Nectar Of Miami Beach
James F. Verified buyer
“So many great memories of my teenage years raced through my head at once. I am so happy that I am literally considering never buying a name brand again. This cologne is amazing.”
on Into The Woods
Simeon F. Verified buyer
“Dua Fragrances did an amazing job recreating this fragrance, it is spot on in almost every way. Looking forward to smelling and wearing it after some maceration!”
on Atelier Santal
Em V. Verified buyer
“Beautifully gourmand, without being sickly sweet. THE perfect balance in a scent.”
on Taro Milk Tea
Reyes J. Verified buyer
“Smelled Wild Vetiver and absolutely loved it. Hard to spend $500. When I heard Dua had their own version I had to get it. This smells amazing. I’m in awe. Got this today and already ordered another.”
on the Wild Vetiver inspired expression
Gigi L. Verified buyer
“One of Dua’s best! Soft, floral, skin scent. Can be worn year round. Safe blind buy!”
on I’m A Sexy Mess Rolling Out Of Bed
Freda D. Verified buyer
“Job well done! This is one of my favorite BBW scents and Dua did an amazing job. Let it sit and she shines!”
on Strawberry Velvet Cream
Verbena G. Verified buyer
“Definitely a summer scent sexy clean girl vibe.. Fresh out of the shower slide on a cute sundress and sandals”
on Island Milk Punch
Quoted verbatim from the verified Loox review feed on theduabrand.com. Scent and wear vary with skin chemistry.
Who the Inspired Collection is for
It is for you if
- You love a scent and cannot justify $400 for it.
- Your signature got discontinued or reformulated and nothing else smells right.
- You want a rotation, not one bottle. Five scents for the price of one designer flacon.
- You are buying a gift and want a “what are you wearing?” reaction without the four-figure receipt.
It is not for you if
- You want the designer bottle on your shelf. Dua sells the fragrance, not the flacon.
- You want a molecule-for-molecule copy. These are Dua’s own interpretations, built to evoke the original. Customers call the hits “spot on.” Skin chemistry still has the final word.
One perfumer. 2,400 fragrances. Every one of them handcrafted in the USA.
The Dua Brand started in Southern California with a simple objection: the fragrances people actually wanted to wear were priced for the people who least needed a deal. So the founder started recreating them himself, one at a time, at a concentration most designer houses save for their most expensive line.
Today the library holds over 2,400 originals, hybrids and inspired expressions, with new drops most Fridays, 69,000+ customers in the past year, and a spot on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. Every bottle is still hand-filled in Los Angeles, vegan and cruelty-free.
Perfume dupes, answered
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The scent you keep searching for. $43, not $495.
2,400+ fragrance dupes, hybrids and originals, handcrafted in Los Angeles at extrait strength. New drops most Fridays.
Free US shipping over $65 · Vegan and cruelty-free · Ships from Los Angeles