Le Labo built its reputation on a handful of scents that smell like nothing else on a shelf, and two of them became modern icons: Santal 33, the creamy, smoky sandalwood that took over coffee shops and hotel lobbies, and Another 13, the clean, radiant skin-musk. At roughly $220 to $230 a bottle they are also two of the most-searched "is there a dupe?" fragrances in niche. These are the closest note matches in our data. We are honest about scope: these are the two Le Labo scents with genuinely established note-matched dupes, so this is a focused list rather than a padded one.
The usual honest note: a dupe shares key notes, it is never identical, and fragrances reformulate over time, so treat these as close relatives. Every match is grounded in shared notes, not marketing.
Santal 33: an 88% match with Dossier Woody Sandalwood
The one that made Le Labo a household name. Dossier's Woody Sandalwood shares Santal 33's sandalwood, cardamom and leather, the creamy, smoky, unisex signature you smell on half of Brooklyn, at $29 against $230, an 88 percent match and our closest Le Labo call. If you try one, make it this.
Another 13: a 79% match with Zara 4mbr0x
The clean, magnetic skin-scent built on ambroxan. Zara's 4mbr0x shares Another 13's ambroxan, moss and musk, that soft, radiant, hard-to-place "smells like expensive skin" quality, for around $26 versus $220. A looser match than Santal 33, but the ambroxan core reads true.
How to find a Le Labo dupe
Santal 33 and Another 13 are the two Le Labo scents with the strongest, most-established dupes, which is why they are the two we feature. If you love a different Le Labo, search it in the dupe finder and we will show the closest note-matched alternative we track, with the shared notes and the price gap. Dupejoy earns a small commission if you buy through our links, at no extra cost to you, and it never changes which dupe we match to a fragrance.