Hotel Collection No 1 Lime Basil & Mandarin Perfume | Aldi 100ml Spray Eau De Parfum for Women

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I opted for Superdrug’s Layering Lab Body Mist in the scent Paradise, which is meant to be a dupe of Paco Rabanne’s popular fragrance Olympea. Blossom is just as floral and feels just as luxurious as Alien, but certainly doesn’t last as long. So many people have been looking for a Jo Malone Lime Basil & Mandarin dupe so I know this will be good news to them! This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I like a stronger perfume for an evening scent. Aldi have done a good job in trying to replicate the smell though, and I think if you haven't worn the Jo Malone version before, you'd be impressed with the dupe.

Designer perfumes are a wonderful thing – but let’s be honest, they don’t come cheap. So it’s not surprising that Aldi perfume dupes have become some of the most popular products in the supermarket’s surprisingly vast

Aldi perfume dupes

Lacura E1 Exclusive Only = Dior Miss Dior OR Carolina Herrera 212 VIP Rosé (mixed opinions on this one) With that in mind, we decided to put a range of perfume dupes, said to be similar to high street and designer favourites to the test, to see how they held up. Here's the results: Layering Lab Blossom Body Mist Dupe for: Thierry Mugler’s Alien

Rating: 4/5 Aldi's Hotel Collection No. 3 Pomegranate Eau De Parfum Dupe for: Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir R)-Para-mentha-1,8-diene, Butylphenyl Methyl Propional, Hydroxycitronellal,Linalool, Linalyl Acetate.

I don’t think I’m quite ready to abandon Alien, but Superdrug’s Blossom certainly makes a decent stand in. Is there anything more comforting than the scent of your favourite perfume? A decent dupe of it, maybe. How can you be sure they’re actually similar scents to the original? Do they last as long or smell as strong as you’d like?