Basenotes owners date weaker batches to 2019 and 2020. One owner then reports a changed formula in a mid-2021 batch, after the EU ban on Lilial: the ingredient is gone from the label, the non-alcohol content is down from 22% to 18%, and the scent is stronger but more synthetic. Others in the thread still rate their 2020 bottles highly.
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.
Owners who have worn both put it between 70% and 90% of Layton: closest in the dry-down, with a spicier, mintier opening. One owner in a side-by-side thread says it should not be called a clone at all.
An ~85% take on Layton that fans call a "baby Layton": the apple-lavender-vanilla DNA is all there on the spray, but it telescopes fast into a mostly-vanilla dry-down with less of the original’s mid-stage refinement. The cheapest believable Layton.
Four reviewers who know Layton compare the two: they find it close to very close and stronger, with an opening that differs and a slightly deeper character. Wear time is reported at six to eight hours.
Sharing listed notes does not make two perfumes smell alike. Each of these has a match of its own and no reformulation report on file here; they are different perfumes, not matches for Layton.
4 notes in commonapple · geranium · vanilla · sandalwood
4 notes in commonbergamot · apple · geranium · sandalwood
3 notes in commongeranium · vanilla · sandalwood
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