Where it differs: Avant Ruby swaps part of Carmina's amber and cashmeran base for ambroxan, so the drydown smells sharper and more mineral and less plush than the Creed.
Smells like Creed Carmina.
2 bottles the community rates close to Carmina, 92 percent cheaper at the top, with the one thing each does differently. fruity, rose, warm spicy, for women.
Scent overlap
Both bottles' accords, strongest at the top, facing each other. A bar joined through the middle is one they share.
Notes of Carmina
What Creed publishes. Black means Maison Alhambra Avant Ruby shares the note.
Top
- black cherry
- pink pepper
- saffron
Heart
- violet
- may rose
- peony
- cashmere wood
Base
- musk
- amber
- cashmeran
- frankincense
- myrrh
Notes of Avant Ruby
What Maison Alhambra publishes. Black means Carmina shares the note.
Top
- black cherry
- saffron
- pink pepper
Heart
- may rose
- peony
- violet
- cashmere wood
Base
- musk
- ambroxan
- myrrh
- incense
The 2 worth trying, ranked
Similarity is the owners' vote plus the note overlap. Price is a typical US bottle price when the house publishes one. Bars are each match's own accords.
Where it differs: ALT markets Melodia as inspired by Carmina and its own buyers report a close match from opening to drydown, though no independent side-by-side confirms how the projection compares.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Similarity figures come from owner ratings and published notes, never from a lab, and no bottle here is a copy of another. Brand names appear only to say what a scent is similar to.
Side by side, the way people actually decide
Two bottles, two prices, one honest sentence. Every match on the site has this card.
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