The original: Louis Vuitton Afternoon Swim
Master Perfumer Jacques Cavallier Belletrud's homage to the citruses he loves most, built around a rare Sicilian orange -- bergamot drifting over a deep current of mandarin, lifted by ginger. Part of the Cologne Perfumes line, with bottle artwork by Californian artist Alex Israel. Refillable in stores with a perfume fountain. Sold exclusively through Louis Vuitton.
| Dupe | Match | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Velixir Poseidon EDP | 88% | $57 |
| Rayhaan Adonis Icarus | 87% | $30 |
Afternoon Swim retails around $360.
How we score. Every percentage comes from cross-referencing note pyramids against Fragrantica and brand-official sources, then weighting what people who own both fragrances actually report. We don't publish anything below 85%, and we say when something barely clears.
#1Velixir Poseidon EDP
Shares with the original: Bergamot, Mandarin, Ginger, Ambergris
Every note in Poseidon appears in Afternoon Swim — bergamot, mandarin, ginger and ambergris — missing only the Sicilian orange. Side-by-side video comparisons put the two very close, including one creator comparison with 27,700 likes and 287 comments, and Indonesian reviewers comparing them reach the same conclusion. Read the performance reports before buying, because they contradict each other badly: owners report anywhere from six to ten hours, while others get thirty to forty-five minutes even with heavy application. The ambergris is the real risk — one owner reports it amplifying into a body-odour accord on her husband's skin, a full scrubber. A four-note composition leaves nowhere to hide if your chemistry disagrees with the base. One further caveat we would rather state than bury: this brand's written reviews have been publicly accused of bot activity, so we have weighted the video comparisons and discounted the text.
Sources: TikTok side-by-side comparisons, multiple creators in English and Indonesian
#2Rayhaan Adonis Icarus
Shares with the original: Mandarin, Bergamot, Sicilian Orange, Ginger, Ambergris
Afternoon Swim is a deliberately minimal citrus -- Louis Vuitton lists just bergamot, orange and ginger as its key notes -- and Adonis Icarus matches its entire signature, mandarin and ambergris included. That is the same reason Pacific Aura scores well against Pacific Chill: when an original is built from a handful of molecules, hitting all of them is most of the work. A Swedish retailer that stocks it calls it a really good Afternoon Swim dupe and notes it projects two to three hours, longer than the LV -- which matters, because LV's colognes are famously fleeting, so this is one of the rare cases where the alternative outlasts the original. Honest caveats: performance reports scatter widely, from one to five hours, and Maison Alhambra Jean Lowe Azure has a competing claim to being the closest Afternoon Swim clone, which we have not yet researched.
Sources: Swedish retailer stocking it, multiple TikTok reviewers calling it an Afternoon Swim clone, dedicated YouTube comparison, BeautyHouse US listing
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