Montagne Parfums: Made-to-Order Dupes of Niche Perfumes

Montagne Parfums makes its versions of niche perfumes, names the original on each product page, and mixes every bottle after you order it. Of its best-known three, Eau Matcha follows its original most closely, and Another 14 is the one that divides people.

How Does Montagne Work?

Montagne’s FAQ says the company has worked in fragrance since 2012 and launched Montagne Parfums in April 2019. Its fragrances are “freshly compounded to order”, meaning nothing is mixed in advance and sits on a shelf. The flip side is that Montagne doesn’t accept returns, so read the current dispatch and return terms before ordering, especially for a gift with a date attached.

Montagne goes after niche houses more than designer bestsellers: Le Labo and Kurkdjian rather than Dior and Chanel. That puts it with Alexandria in the “niche interpreters” group of our dupe house guide.

Montagne	Its stated original	How close are the notes?
Eau Matcha	Le Labo Thé Matcha 26	Nearly identical lists
Le Bonbon	MFK Baccarat Rouge 540	The core, without the sugar
Another 14	Le Labo Another 13	Same idea, more musk and pear

Eau Matcha: Thé Matcha 26

Eau Matcha lists fig, matcha tea, cedar, orange and vetiver. Le Labo’s Thé Matcha 26 lists matcha, fig, vetiver, cedar and bitter orange. That’s the same five notes, and the closest match of the three.

It’s a green perfume, not a sweet one. Fig brings a milky, leafy note, the tea is grassy and a little bitter, and cedar and vetiver dry it out. If you’re picturing a matcha latte with sugar, this isn’t it. One wearer loves its uplifting, herbal side and picks out the matcha leaf. Our comparison puts the two side by side.

Le Bonbon: Baccarat Rouge 540

Le Bonbon lists jasmine and saffron, cedar and ambergris. That’s the skeleton of Baccarat Rouge 540: saffron’s leathery warmth, jasmine, dry wood and the salty-mineral ambergris accord.

What it doesn’t list is ethyl maltol, the burnt-sugar molecule that gives BR540 its candy-floss glow. Note lists are never complete, so that may just be an omission. Our BR540 dupe list and the Le Bonbon comparison compare it with the others. Le Bonbon Intense is a different perfume with a different reference.

Another 14: Another 13

Another 14 lists jasmine and musks, ambrette and pear, then Iso E Super and ambergris. Another 13 is famously sparse, built on ambroxide, jasmine and moss, and Another 14 adds a softer musk-and-pear layer around the same idea: a clean, skin-like haze more than a perfume you notice.

That’s also why it divides people. The author of the same Reddit discussion can barely smell it, while a commenter struggled at first and came to love it. Perfumes built on Iso E Super and musks do this to some noses: many people have a specific anosmia to one or more musk molecules, and our musk guide explains why. If you’ve never been able to smell Another 13, Another 14 is unlikely to change that. The comparison page has both note lists.

Where Next?

Dua covers many of the same niche references and adds hybrids, and Alexandria offers Roja and Creed alternatives.