5 bottles the community rates close to Side Effect, 88 percent cheaper at the top, with the one thing each does differently. warm spicy, woody, boozy, unisex.
Both bottles' accords, strongest at the top, facing each other. A bar joined through the middle is one they share.
What Initio publishes. Black means French Avenue After Effect shares the note.
What French Avenue publishes. Black means Side Effect shares the note.
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: After Effect follows the rum, tobacco and cinnamon structure closely but opens drier and more synthetic, and owners find it less deep and velvety than Side Effect once it settles.
Where it differs: Upside Down swaps Side Effect's sandalwood and saffron for a sweeter floral vanilla with candied cinnamon, and owners call it close but sweeter, blurrier and stronger lasting.
Where it differs: Aftermath stays a loud rum, vanilla and cinnamon scent all day, while Side Effect softens into vanilla and woods, and owners report batch variation that makes some bottles smell off.
Where it differs: Infini Elixir drops the boozy rum and tobacco, adds oud, leather and vanilla, and owners describe it as sweeter and less masculine than Side Effect while performing strongly.
Where it differs: Amethyst is a rose and oud scent with pink pepper and vanilla, not a boozy tobacco one, and owners say it projects hard for three to four hours and overwhelms if overapplied.
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