Opens with a soft, almost edible muskiness from ambrette layered over the faintly jammy, tropical sweetness of nesberry — unusual and immediately distinctive. The heart settles into a sheer floral blur of violet and magnolia that reads more like clean skin than cut flowers. Sandalwood and ambergris anchor the dry-down with a warm, powdery creaminess that lingers close to skin for hours. Projection is modest; sillage is intimate, a personal-space fragrance rather than a room-filler — ideal for warm-weather days when you want to smell effortlessly clean without trying too hard.
Sapodilla and ambrette open sweet and sun-warm, then blur into magnolia, violet and sandalwood over an ambergris-cedar-musk base — the same airy, skin-close profile as Mojave Ghost with noticeably longer wear.
Budget ambrette-rose sketch with Mojave Ghost's airy feel; short wear but uncanny at the price.
unisex
ALT Fragrances sells Desert Phantom as its version of Byredo Mojave Ghost.
feminine
Dua Fragrances sells Mojave Sand as its version of Byredo Mojave Ghost.
unisex
The top-scored match we list, Rayhaan Nava Sol, has a provisional accuracy 8 for $66–$70 — a score we can't yet back with a source you can check. Treat it as a lead worth sampling rather than a verified stand-in; the original stays the reference.
The top dupe of Byredo's Mojave Ghost is Nava Sol by Rayhaan, provisionally scored at 8/10 for accuracy and 8/10 for longevity. At $66 against the $330 original, it saves roughly $264 per bottle. Below: 3 more dupes, each marked with how well its score is backed.
The highest-scored dupe we list for Mojave Ghost is Nava Sol by Rayhaan. Its scores are provisional (8/10 accuracy, longevity 8/10): we do not yet have a source for them that you can open and check.
Mojave Ghost by Byredo is a floral/woody scent built on ambrette, jamaican nesberry, violet, magnolia, sandalwood, ambergris. Those notes define its character — browse any of them above to find fragrances that share the same profile.
The closest scents to Mojave Ghost by shared notes are Parfums de Marly Percival, Diptyque Fleur de Peau, Strangelove NYC Lostinflowers. See the full "similar fragrances" list below — each is ranked by how many notes it shares with Mojave Ghost.
Dupes are rated on two independent dimensions: scent accuracy (how closely it matches the original) and longevity (how long it lasts on skin). Scores come from owner reports on Reddit r/fragrance, r/fragranceclones and Fragrantica, and each is marked community-scored, provisional or not scored. They are never averaged into a single number — accuracy and longevity are separate decisions.
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