A Fragrantica owner who first bought Invictus EDT in 2020 and bought it again in 2025 says it no longer smells the same or lasts as long. A second owner says a 2025 bottle is different but still likes it. A third puts the change at batches from 2024 on and blames a banned lily-of-the-valley ingredient. These are owners' reports only.
Unless the report says the brand announced it, this comes from owners comparing bottles, not from the brand. Two bottles from different batches can smell different; check the batch code where you can.
If the bottle on the shelf today is not the one you remember, these are the matches we list for it. A score does not say which batch of the original the match was compared with.
Four reviewers who know Invictus compare the two. Three call it a clone of the first Invictus with a creamier, milkier feel; the fourth, who owns the whole line, places it nearer Invictus Victory and Pure XS. Wear time runs from about half a day to seven or eight hours.
Shares Invictus's sweet-aquatic vibe but adds cinnamon and vanilla and runs more linear — an inspired-by rather than a 1:1, and some peg it closer to Invictus Aqua.
About a hundred reviewers place it against Invictus, nearly all as a blend of Invictus and Dior Sauvage: roughly forty call it an even mix, thirty find it mostly Invictus, under twenty mostly Sauvage, and about a dozen find it close to neither. Wear time is split, from two or three hours to eight and more.
Sharing listed notes does not make two perfumes smell alike. This one has a match of its own and no reformulation report on file here; it is a different perfume, not a match for Invictus.
3 notes in commonguaiac wood · ambergris · patchouli
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