Cheap scents that smell great

Affordability issues with niche and designer colognes has led to incremental increase in affordable fragrances that smell similar to the more expensive counterparts. I will be listing out the smell alike of some of the more popular EDTs or EDPs that I own, sampled or based on trusted reviews on YouTube and other sources. It is hard to find them in local stores which makes them difficult to sample them and have to rely on YouTube or Fragrantica reviews (which are not always accurate and I have burnt my fingers buying soley based on them). For example bought the Armaf Italiano Uomo thinking its a Tuscun Leather clone ended up being a Chrome Legend clone which I already owned and did not like. Hope this list helps people wanting to buy some good smelling scents without shelling out the moolah. I will be leaving few blanks of the one's I do not figure out. Please comment below to complete the list. Armaf : Their fragrances are well known and lot of reviews can be found on the inter...

Sometime in 2015, my hunt for cheap fragrances led me to this name. This name was not big then and hardly any mentions of the same on fragrantica or basenotes. Infact, fragrantica had not yet listed this fragrance yet. From limited number of posts, I figured out that it was a smell alike of the most revered "Aventus". I had not smelt Aventus then and had no clue of what to expect of the same. One fine day, I ordered it on ebay India. Upon receiving, I was stunned by the potency of the same. It was an amazing value for money fragrance. Just before this I had a bottle of Armaf's iDivo for men and this one had extreme similarities with CDNIM. I was still happy with my purchase, as it lasted a long time and sillage was amazing as it was one of the most complemented fragrances that I owned. Couple of months back my friend smelled CDNIM on me and wanted me to get a bottle for him. I knew that the stock for the same was scare and people were charging a bomb as the demand was...