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the one you wantLouis Vuitton City of StarsUSD 350, 100 ml
USD 350USD 50
86% less
All 4 matches, ranked
smells like it, for lessVolare Golden HourUSD 50, 100 ml

Smells like Louis Vuitton City of Stars.

4 bottles the community rates close to City of Stars, 86 percent cheaper at the top, with the one thing each does differently. citrus, powdery, musky, unisex.

Scent overlap

Both bottles' accords, strongest at the top, facing each other. A bar joined through the middle is one they share.

Louis Vuitton City of Stars5 accords
4of 5 accords shared, 80%
Volare Golden Hour4 accords
not listed

Notes of City of Stars

What Louis Vuitton publishes. Black means Volare Golden Hour shares the note.

Top

  • Lime
  • Blood Orange
  • Blood Mandarin
  • Bergamot
  • Lemon

Heart

  • Tiare Flower

Base

  • Powdery Notes
  • Musk
  • Sandalwood

Notes of Golden Hour

What Volare publishes. Black means City of Stars shares the note.

Top

  • Lime
  • Blood Orange
  • Red Mandarin
  • Bergamot
  • Lemon

Heart

  • Tiare Flower

Base

  • Powdery Notes
  • Musk
  • Sandalwood

The 4 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.

No. 1
Golden Hour
Volare, EDP, 100 ml
87similar, well documented, inspired by it
USD 50350
86% less, typical price
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Where it differs: Lattafa's sister brand follows the citrus-tiare-powdery-musk pyramid closely; buyers note it needs weeks of resting to round out and wears shorter than the LV.

Buy City of Stars ifYou want the most seamless citrus sparkle and longer wear.
Buy Golden Hour ifYou want the City of Stars citrus-powder glow for under fifty.
No. 2
Houdini
Bujairami, Extrait, 100 ml
87similar, well documented, inspired by it
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Where it differs: As an extrait it lasts about three hours longer than the LV by owner accounts, with the powdery musk base pushed a bit harder and the citrus top less fleeting.

Buy City of Stars ifYou want LV's lighter, breezier citrus balance.
Buy Houdini ifYou want the same profile with clearly longer wear.
No. 3
Starlit City
ALT Fragrances, Extrait, 60 ml
85similar, reported by a few owners, inspired by it
USD 49350
86% less, typical price
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Where it differs: ALT adds night-blooming jasmine to the tiare heart and uses an oil-rich extrait base, so it smells a touch more floral and sits closer to the skin than the LV.

Buy City of Stars ifYou want the brighter, more radiant LV citrus.
Buy Starlit City ifYou want a slightly more floral take in a smaller cheap bottle.
No. 4
City of Dua
Dua Fragrances, Extrait, 34 ml
85similar, reported by a few owners, inspired by it
notes not published by the house
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Where it differs: Sold as a 34ml extrait inspired by City of Stars, it trades LV's sheer, sparkling diffusion for a denser citrus-musk that wears closer and heavier on skin.

Buy City of Stars ifYou want the sheer, glowing LV diffusion.
Buy City of Dua ifYou want a small, strong bottle of the citrus-musk idea.

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.

Read about Volare Golden Hour
Louis Vuitton City of Stars
USD 350, 100 ml
Volare Golden Hour
USD 50, 100 ml
87 similar, 86 percent less. Lattafa's sister brand follows the citrus-tiare-powdery-musk pyramid closely; buyers note it needs weeks of resting to round out and wears shorter than the LV.

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