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Dark Fiction

Dark Fiction

Inspired by Cherry Smoke, Tom Ford

50 ml glass bottle (Eau de Parfum)

€25,00
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Inspired by: Cherry Smoke, Tom Ford
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PRODUCT DETAILS

This is an eau de parfum, 50 ml, with roughly 20% fragrance oil. It costs €25, the same price as every other scent we make, regardless of the original behind it. Free shipping applies on orders from €49, with delivery in 2 to 5 working days.

Cherry Smoke is sold as an eau de parfum, so Dark Fiction matches that concentration, dense enough to hold the leather and smoke together without fading within the first hour.

Longevity sits at 5 to 10 hours. Handmade with French fragrance oils, vegan, and never tested on animals. If Dark Fiction is not what you expected, you have 15 days to exchange it.

Exchanges work the same across every scent in the range, Tom Ford dupe or otherwise. Dark Fiction is built for him and for her equally, since Tom Ford released the original as a unisex fragrance too, and a review of Cherry Smoke usually lands on the same tension between fruit and smoke.

NOTES

Top notes

Sour cherry, saffron

Heart notes

Leather, osmanthus, olive, apricot

Base notes

Smoke, woody notes, cypriol

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Dark Fiction is our perfume dupe of Cherry Smoke by Tom Ford, a unisex fragrance built for anyone who wants something dark and a little smoky rather than sweet. It opens on sour cherry and saffron, moves through leather, osmanthus, olive and apricot, then settles on smoke, woody notes and cypriol.

The sour cherry reads tart rather than sugary in the first few minutes, closer to real fruit than to cherry candy, and the leather comes in fast underneath it. By the second hour the smoke and cypriol take over, leaving something dry and a little brooding rather than gourmand.

Tom Ford built Cherry Smoke as one of the label's more unusual releases, and Dark Fiction is our take on that same idea rather than a straight clone. The top notes lead with sour cherry, the middle notes bring in leather and stone fruit, and the base settles into smoke and woody notes, an accord that reads more like a bonfire than a dessert.

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Simon Koßmann

Riecht sehr gut, verglichen mit dem
Orginal nicht ganz so 1/1 wie bei „non Dark“ Fiction, aber als Daily auf der Arbeit kommt es gut an bei Kollegen im Büro, nicht zu aufdringlich aber dennoch riecht man gut :).

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Matija Tatomirovic

I have just smelled the original at the airport, and this dupe is just like the original as i remember it. Great job CP!

Perfume concentration

EDT, EDP or EXDP - what you are actually buying

The difference between these labels is not quality but how much perfume oil sits in the bottle. That decides how long the scent stays on your skin and how far it travels.

EDT Eau de Toilette 5 to 15% perfume oil

The lightest of the three. It opens fresh and fast, but fades after three to five hours. Pleasant in heat and at the office, as long as you top it up during the day.

Our choiceEDP Eau de Parfum ~20% perfume oil

The middle ground that became the standard. It lasts six to eight hours, one spray in the morning is enough, and the scent stays recognisable into the evening without filling the room.

EXDP Extrait de Parfum 20 to 40% perfume oil

The densest form, worn in drops, and it can last over ten hours. In return it loses that easy opening, and the price per bottle climbs the most.

Why we chose EDP

Every Chez Pierre perfume is made in Eau de Parfum concentration, with 20% perfume oil. That is not by accident.

An eau de toilette would mean carrying the bottle with you and refreshing the scent after lunch. An extrait would push the price up, and only someone counting hours would notice the gain. EDP sits exactly in between: one spray in the morning carries the whole working day, and the scent opens and develops instead of settling on the skin at once.

So we don't make lighter and pricier versions of the same scent. We make one, in the concentration where that scent works best.

How a perfume is measured

Longevity, projection and sillage

Three things describe every perfume, whatever the price or the name on the bottle. Once you separate them, it is easier to say what you actually want from a scent.

01

Longevity

How many hours the scent stays on skin

Measured from the moment you spray to the moment you can no longer smell it up close. It depends on the concentration, but also on your skin: on dry skin every perfume lasts less, so a dab of unscented cream before spraying helps.

02

Projection

How far it travels around you

Strongest in the first hour, it tells you how much space the scent takes up. Big projection is great for evenings and colder days, while at the office or in a meeting it usually gets in the way more than it helps.

03

Sillage

The trail you leave behind

Pronounced „see-yazh“, it means the trail a scent leaves behind you. It is the reason someone turns around as you pass. A perfume can last a long time and still leave a small trail, and the other way round.

Strong is not the same as good. A perfume with huge projection quickly tires both you and the people around you, while one without any trail stays your own private thing.

That is why every one of our perfume descriptions says how it wears, not only how it smells.

CHOOSE YOUR LIFESYLE

Dark Fiction

Inspired by: Cherry Smoke, Tom Ford

Dark Fiction works best from autumn through winter, when the smoke and leather have cold air to push against, though the sour cherry keeps it wearable into a summer evening too. It reads darker after sunset than it does under daylight.

It is built as a unisex fragrance and reads masculine or feminine depending on the skin it sits on. It suits an evening out more naturally than an office day, and like the rest of our perfume dupes it stays affordable, with one or two sprays enough to carry it for hours.

Tom Ford sits at the luxury end of designer perfumes, and Cherry Smoke is one of the scents people search hardest to find a dupe for. Among the perfumes and fragrances we make, this is the one that makes the easiest gift, since a unisex bottle works whoever it is for.

Choose our Inspiration

Tom Ford is an American designer house known for pushing bolder, darker fragrances than most of the market, and Cherry Smoke fits that pattern: a fruit note paired with something smoky rather than the usual sweet cherry treatment. It has become one of the house's more talked-about niche-leaning releases.

Most people shorten the name to just Cherry Smoke rather than including the brand every time. That is the original behind Dark Fiction, our own alternative built to smell similar to it without the original branding.

Read enough reviews of Cherry Smoke and the same word keeps coming up: smoky. It's one of the scents that shows up whenever people rank Tom Ford's boldest fragrances against niche fragrances from smaller houses, and building Dark Fiction this close to the original meant matching that accord rather than softening it into something easier to wear.

Why choose us?

Dark Fiction is our perfume dupe of Cherry Smoke, not an official release and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tom Ford. It is our own alternative, made with French fragrance oils and filled by hand in small batches, and it smells like the original from the first spray.

We only make it as an eau de parfum, since that concentration is what keeps the cherry and smoke present for the whole evening. If it does not smell like what you expected, you have 15 days to send it back.