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Can cut-price scents smell like designer fragrances? We put these high street versions to the test

WORDS: STEPHANIE MAYLOR.

Chic oriental ✽ Suddenly Madame Glamour, £3.99 for 50ml EDP, Lidl ✽ SIMILAR TO: Chanel Coco Mademoiselle, 77 for 50ml EDP, The Perfume Shop Picking up your perfume with your peas isn’t as glam as going to a department store, but Lidl’s Suddenly Madame Glamour is an elegant, expensive-smelling perfume. Compared with Chanel, initially it’s a little zestier, though it has the same hallmarks of jasmine, rose and vetiver. Chanel’s fragrance has more of a punch and lasts longer on the skin, but costing a fraction of the designer option, Lidl’s is a great everyday alternative. Punchy floral ✽ New Look Dusk, £12.99 for 100ml EDP ✽ SIMILAR TO: Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb, £105 for 100ml EDP To look at, you wouldn’t know these perfumes were at all alike. Dusk is chunky and clunky, while Flowerbomb is…

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