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Best 1861 - Naxos Dupe
Xerjoff 1861 - Naxos retails for $250. Sicilia captures the same scent character at a fraction of the price — same DNA, same 8+ hour wear, same compliments.
Why this dupe
- Captures the same aromatic character that defines 1861 - Naxos — top, heart, and base notes reflect the original's DNA.
- Eau de Parfum concentration with higher-than-industry-standard fragrance oil — projects and lasts 8+ hours on skin.
- Vegan, cruelty-free, paraben-free formulation. Same wearable scent without the luxury markup.
- Roughly 72% cheaper than Xerjoff's retail — the difference goes back in your wallet, not into brand campaigns and retail markups.
- 4.6★ across 558+ reviews from real customers — see what they're saying on the product page.
About 1861 - Naxos
1861 - Naxos is a fresh, herb-forward fragrance from Xerjoff with an opening built around lavender and bergamot. The aromatic heart centers on honey, tying the composition together with clean, confident energy. The dry-down fades into a soft, lasting base of tobacco leaf.
On skin, 1861 - Naxos typically delivers excellent longevity (8+ hours) with strong sillage that projects across a room. The price point — $250 at retail — reflects Xerjoff's positioning, packaging, and distribution overhead more than the cost of the formulation itself.
How to wear it
Clean, fresh, and broadly appealing, Sicilia works well across most settings — work, travel, casual social. Reads as fresh without being generic.For best longevity, apply to pulse points (wrists, neck, behind the ears) on moisturised skin.
How we matched it
Our perfumers studied 1861 - Naxos's note structure — the lavender opening, the honey heart, the tobacco leaf dry-down — and built Sicilia around that same architecture. The aim isn't a molecule-for-molecule clone; it's a faithful interpretation of the scent character at a price the market doesn't normally allow for.
What's the same: the aromatic family signature, the note progression on skin, the longevity profile (8+ hours on most skin types). Where it can differ: small accord nuances in the first 30 minutes — the most volatile part of any fragrance — and slight projection variation depending on your skin chemistry. We're transparent about that. Your nose will tell you the truth before any review can.
Every Fragrenza fragrance is formulated as Eau de Parfum, vegan, cruelty-free, and paraben-free. The juice does the work; the price reflects the juice, not the brand campaign budget.
Side by side
The original
Xerjoff
1861 - Naxos
$250
Designer/niche pricing reflects brand positioning, retail markups, and campaign spend — not always the juice itself.
The Fragrenza alternative
Sicilia
$69.99
Same aromatic character, formulated as Eau de Parfum, vegan and cruelty-free, built to last 8+ hours.
What it costs per spray
Xerjoff retail
1861 - Naxos
$0.42
per spray · ~600 sprays/bottle
Fragrenza
Sicilia
$0.11
per spray · ~600 sprays/bottle
A standard atomiser pushes about 0.1ml per spray, so a 60ml bottle delivers around 600 sprays before it's empty. At $69.99, Sicilia works out to roughly $0.11 per spray. The Xerjoff original at $250 sits at about $0.42 per spray — same volume, same delivery, very different per-use cost.
Project that across a year of regular wear — three times a week, two sprays per wear, about 312 sprays a year — and Sicilia runs roughly $36.39 for the year, against roughly $130.00 for 1861 - Naxos. That's about $93.61 a year staying in your wallet — the difference covering the brand campaigns, retail concession fees, and prestige packaging that don't change what's inside the bottle.
Inside the scent
Inside each note
A closer look at the building blocks behind 1861 - Naxos's scent. Each note plays a specific role across the wear arc — and links to the full Fragrenza collection of fragrances built around it.
Top — first impression
Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is perhaps the single most iconic ingredient in the entire history of perfumery. Native to the sun-drenched hillsides of the Mediterranean basin and cultivated on an enormous scale in...
Bergamot (Citrus bergamia) is one of perfumery's most beloved and versatile citrus ingredients, grown almost exclusively along the sun-drenched Calabrian coastline of southern Italy. A hybrid believed to descend from the bitter...
Lemon (Citrus limon) is one of the most universally recognised and widely used ingredients in the entire history of perfumery. Originally cultivated in South and Southeast Asia and introduced to the Mediterranean...
Heart — the character
Honey is one of perfumery's oldest and most beloved ingredients — a golden substance produced by honeybees from the nectar of flowers, used in fragrance in the form of natural honey absolute,...
Cinnamon is one of the most beloved spices in the world, harvested from the inner bark of Cinnamomum verum and related species cultivated across Sri Lanka, India, and Southeast Asia. Its warm,...
Cashmeran is a remarkable synthetic aroma chemical created by IFF (International Flavors and Fragrances) that has quietly revolutionised the way perfumers create warmth and sensuality. Technically classified as a polycyclic musk with...
Jasmine sambac — known as Arabian jasmine or mogra — is among the most intensely and intoxicatingly fragrant flowers on earth. Native to South and Southeast Asia and now the national flower...
Base — the dry-down
Tobacco leaf is one of fragrance's most nuanced and multi-dimensional natural ingredients — a note that captures the full aromatic journey of the tobacco plant from field to curing barn. Unlike the...
Tonka bean is the seed of the Dipteryx odorata tree, a leguminous giant native to Venezuela, Brazil, and the wider tropical Americas. The seeds are harvested when ripe, then dried or macerated...
Vanilla (Vanilla planifolia) is native to Mexico, where the Totonac people first cultivated it long before Spanish explorers brought it to Europe in the sixteenth century. The vanilla orchid's seed pods —...
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