Updated August 2026
The best Le Labo Another 13 dupes in 2026 are ALT. Fragrances Simply Another, Oakcha Parallel, Twist Timeless No. 113, OLFx Other World 13 and Fine'ry I'm a Musk — ranked below by how closely each holds the pear-ambrette-musk skin effect.
Why does Another 13 smell like "your skin but better"?
Because the composition is molecule-led rather than story-led: pear, apple and citrus sit on top, ambrette, amyl salicylate, moss and jasmine fill the heart, and the base is built from Iso E Super, Cetalox, Helvetolide and ambrettolide — amber and musk materials that read as warm skin.
Another 13 was created by perfumer Nathalie Lorson and released in 2010 as a collaboration between Le Labo and AnOther Magazine, and the brand's own copy keeps the description down to three things: an ambroxyde-type amber material, jasmine and moss. That is unusually blunt for a niche house, and it explains the wearing experience — most of the formula lives in the base, so the fragrance behaves less like a scent applied on top of you and more like an amplifier of what is already there. Cetalox belongs to the ambroxan family of amber molecules, while Iso E Super contributes the transparent woody haze that makes the whole thing hard to locate on a blotter.
There is also a quiet trick in the fruit. Helvetolide, one of the musks in the base, is a Firmenich material documented for its pear-like facet and ambrette undertone — so the pear you notice in the first minutes and the musk you notice hours later are the same idea heard twice. Ambrettolide, the other macrocyclic musk in the list, is the molecule associated with ambrette seed, which is why the composition feels soft and seedy-powdery rather than laundered.
Why can't some people smell it?
Because specific anosmia to musks is common: a person can lack a working receptor for one musk molecule while smelling every other note in the bottle perfectly, and a fragrance weighted this heavily toward musks can therefore land as almost nothing.
The genetics were pinned down in a study published in PLOS Genetics on February 3, 2022, which tested musk perception across a discovery cohort of 1,000 participants and a validation cohort of 364 in New York. It identified OR4D6 as the first human olfactory receptor shown to drive a musk-specific anosmia: carriers of the variant rated the musk Galaxolide roughly 17 to 35 percent weaker than other participants, and some could not perceive it at all. Crucially, the paper notes that people can be anosmic to one musk and not to others — musk perception is not a single switch, which is why one person calls Another 13 the most addictive thing they own and the next person shrugs.
The practical takeaway before you shop: if the original or any alternative reads as blank on your skin, spray it on paper and ask someone else. If they smell it clearly and you do not, no amount of reapplying will fix the receptor — but picks that lean harder on woody-amber materials than on pure musks will usually give you more to work with.
What should an Another 13 alternative get right?
A convincing alternative has to land three things in order: an ambroxan-type amber base that stays warm instead of turning sharp, a pear-and-ambrette top that reads like fruit skin rather than fruit juice, and the moss-jasmine haze that keeps the whole thing from collapsing into fabric softener.
That order is where most budget versions drift. Amber and musk molecules are cheap and forgiving, so the base is easy; the fruit is harder, because the pear has to stay dry; and the moss-jasmine layer is the part almost everyone drops, which is why so many alternatives smell pleasant and generic at once. One definition before the ranking: a dupe, as we explain in what a perfume dupe actually is, is a legal, openly branded fragrance that interprets a famous profile under its own name. That is the only category this article covers.
Which Another 13 dupes are worth buying in 2026?
There is no single best Another 13 dupe for everyone, because the profile splits shoppers between the fruit at the top and the musk underneath. This ranking rewards a documented resemblance to the pear-ambrette-musk arc, US availability at the time of writing, honest labeling and what you get for the money. A pick earned a slot only when at least two independent published sources support it, and every candidate that failed that test is named in the next section rather than quietly dropped. One position belongs to our own catalog, flagged clearly and judged on the same criteria as the rest.
1. ALT. Fragrances Simply Another — the clean-musk benchmark
Simply Another is the pick most consistently named as the best Le Labo Another 13 dupe overall, and it is openly labeled: the US brand's own product page carries the line "Inspired by Another 13", and the fragrance also sells on Amazon in the 60 ml size under the same framing. It is an Extrait de Parfum sold in two sizes, 1 oz at $49 and 2 oz at $59, and the brand describes the arc as a pear opening, a cashmere-and-musk heart and a dry woody sweetness with ambroxan underneath. The honest caveat: it reads cleaner and slightly sweeter than the reference, and the mossy, faintly animalic shadow of the original is softened — you get the comfort of the profile with less of its strangeness.
2. Oakcha Parallel — the pyramid-faithful pick
Parallel is the closest thing to a note-by-note reading of the published original among the mainstream US houses. Oakcha's product page names Another 13 as the inspiration and lists pear, apple and citrus over ambrette, moss and jasmine, with Iso E Super, Cetalox and Helvetolide underneath — a structure repeated in the independent Fragrantica entry for the fragrance. It sells as a 50 ml Extrait de Parfum at $45. The caveat is proportion rather than material: the pear reads juicier and further forward than in the original, and the fragrance wears close, so shoppers hunting for a noticeable trail should look further down this list.
3. Twist Timeless No. 113 — the volume-per-dollar pick
Timeless No. 113 is the most literal transcription here: the brand's page states it is inspired by Le Labo Another 13 and publishes the reference note list material for material — pear, apple and citrus; ambrette, amyl salicylate, moss and jasmine; Iso E Super, Cetalox, Helvetolide and ambrettolide. It comes as a 100 ml spray at $47 against a $55 list price, which makes it the cheapest per milliliter of everything ranked, and it is also carried on Amazon under the same positioning. Two honest caveats: the brand does not publish a concentration for it, and a note list matching on paper never guarantees matching proportions in the bottle — volume-first releases usually spend their budget on size rather than on refinement.
4. OLFx Other World 13 — the Extrait option, from our own catalog
This position is ours, flagged openly. Our Extrait interpretation follows the same arc — pear and apple that read like fruit skin, ambrette and jasmine through the middle, amber, musk and moss underneath — at Extrait de Parfum concentration, which sits denser and closer to the body than the eau de parfum sprays above. It is also the only pick here sold in two application formats: a 50 ml Extrait spray and a 10 ml alcohol-free roll-on perfume oil, which is the least expensive way in our range to test how the profile behaves on your own chemistry before committing. The honest limitation is the flip side of the format: an Extrait built on musks projects quietly, so if a room-filling trail is your first criterion, the 100 ml sprays above will out-shout it.
5. Fine'ry I'm a Musk — the drugstore entry point
I'm a Musk is the video-famous comparison of this category, and it needs the clearest framing of anything on the list: the brand has never positioned it against another fragrance. Launched in 2023 and sold through mass retail in a 2 fl oz bottle at $29.99 on the brand's own shop, it is a soft cotton-and-musk eau de parfum with a creamy sandalwood drydown, and perfume databases group it with Another 13 and other paper-and-musk scents on note structure alone. It belongs here because it delivers the general feeling at the lowest entry price in this ranking — and it ranks last because it drops the moss and the seedy ambrette edge entirely, which is where most of the original's character lives.
Which popular pick did not make the list?
Dossier Musky Musk. It appears constantly in Le Labo Another 13 dupe threads, and it does not belong: the brand's own product page positions it against Juliette Has A Gun's Not A Perfume, a different original built around a single amber molecule, and the Walmart listing carries that same "inspired by" line in its title. It costs about $29 direct and about $32 at Walmart, and it is a good buy on its own terms — but a fragrance built to answer one reference is not an interpretation of another, and the two get confused only because they share a molecular family in the base.
Three more candidates were checked and set aside for stated reasons. Alexandria Fragrances Other 13 and The Dua Brand's Another 13 Shades are both openly framed against the original, and both showed sold out across every size when we checked in August 2026. Zara's The Golden Lullaby overlaps with the original at note level — musk, pear and an amber molecule — but Zara publishes no positioning for it and no stable US price we could verify twice, so it stays off a ranked list rather than on it.
How do the picks compare at a glance?
The table strips the ranking down to what shoppers actually weigh. Longevity classes summarize published brand and community reporting rather than lab measurement.
| Fragrance | Skin-scent match | Projection | Longevity class | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Labo Another 13 (original) | The reference point | Intimate | Long | 15 / 50 / 100 / 500 ml EDP, refillable |
| ALT. Fragrances Simply Another | Close, cleaner and sweeter | Intimate to moderate | Long | 1 oz or 2 oz Extrait |
| Oakcha Parallel | Close, pear pushed forward | Intimate | Moderate to long | 50 ml Extrait |
| Twist Timeless No. 113 | Most literal note reading | Moderate | Long | 100 ml spray |
| OLFx Other World 13 | Built on the pear-ambrette-musk arc | Intimate | Long, close-wearing | 50 ml Extrait spray + 10 ml roll-on oil |
| Fine'ry I'm a Musk | Adjacent — cotton musk, no moss | Moderate | Moderate | 2 fl oz eau de parfum |
Two patterns are worth naming. Every Le Labo Another 13 dupe here competes on intimacy rather than on strength, which is unusual — in most dupe categories the budget versions try to out-project the original, and here they cannot without breaking the effect. And the formats have split: the US "inspired by" houses have standardized on small Extrait bottles, while the mass-market entry point is a large, lighter eau de parfum.
How does the OLFx interpretation approach it?
Our starting point is that the original is an eau de parfum doing base-note work, so we built ours as an Extrait de Parfum, where a higher fragrance concentration lets amber and musk sit denser against skin without asking for more projection. The composition follows the reference arc rather than any single note list: pear and apple kept dry at the top, ambrette and jasmine as texture more than as flowers, then amber, musk and a pale moss undertone that stops the drydown from reading like fresh laundry.
The two formats serve two different wearers. The 50 ml Extrait spray behaves like a conventional fragrance with a tight scent bubble; the 10 ml roll-on perfume oil is alcohol-free, applies to pulse points by touch, and lays the profile closest to the skin — the quietest way to wear something this soft, and the cheapest way in our catalog to find out how the accord behaves on you. Both sit on the same product page.
Is the original worth $250 or more?
At Le Labo's own US site in August 2026, Another 13 lists at $113 for 15 ml, $250 for 50 ml, $348 for 100 ml and $1,138 for 500 ml, with a 50 ml refill at $200. That puts the 50 ml bottle at about $5 per milliliter, while the alternatives ranked above run between roughly $0.47 and $1.63 per milliliter.
Whether that gap is worth paying is a real question. The original buys you a tightly batched niche formula, the refill route, and a drydown whose moss-and-ambrette shadow none of the budget versions fully reproduce; the alternatives buy you the daily experience of the idea at a price where wearing it to the office stops being a decision. We work through that trade in are perfume dupes worth it — the short version for this profile is that the base is the easy part to approximate and the strange part is the expensive part, so how much you care about strangeness sets your answer.
Who should wear a skin scent?
Anyone who wants to smell like a person rather than an announcement. A skin scent suits office environments with fragrance-sensitive colleagues, gyms, hospitals, first dates where you would rather be discovered up close than noticed from the doorway, and hot weather, where heavier compositions turn syrupy and this family stays legible.
They also suit people who dislike choosing a gendered lane, which is why the profile sits across three of our collections at once — the musk range it belongs to structurally, the woody compositions that share its transparent amber floor, and the broader unisex perfume selection where these scents are usually shopped. Two practical notes: apply more than you think you need, because this genre rewards quantity rather than distance, and reapply at midday instead of over-spraying in the morning.
What do shoppers ask about Another 13 dupes?
These are the questions US shoppers put to Google most often, answered straight.
Is there a dupe for Another 13 perfume?
Yes — several, and the good ones say so on the bottle. An Another 13 perfume dupe is easy to find; the useful question is which ones are labeled that way by the house that made them. ALT. Fragrances Simply Another, Oakcha Parallel and Twist Timeless No. 113 are all openly labeled as inspired by Another 13 and all sell in the US between roughly $45 and $59, and our own Extrait interpretation covers the same arc in a 50 ml spray or a 10 ml oil. Fine'ry I'm a Musk is the cheapest way into the general feeling, but it is an adjacent scent rather than an interpretation of this one.
What perfume does Another 13 smell like?
It smells like warm skin with a dry pear rubbed into it: a fruit-skin opening, a soft seedy ambrette and jasmine haze in the middle, and a long amber-musk base with a faint damp moss undertone. The nearest well-known reference point outside its own dupe market is Juliette Has A Gun's Not A Perfume, which runs a single amber molecule almost alone — Another 13 is that idea with fruit, flowers and moss layered around it.
Does Costco sell Le Labo another 13?
Sometimes. Costco has carried Another 13 on costco.com in both the 1.7 oz and 3.4 oz sizes, and Le Labo bottles have turned up in warehouses at prices well under department-store retail. Treat it as an opportunistic find rather than a channel: sizes and prices move without notice, and the brand's own site is the only place where the full size range is listed consistently.
Why can't some people smell Another 13?
Because of specific anosmia to musk molecules. Research published in PLOS Genetics in February 2022 identified the receptor OR4D6 as the first shown to drive a musk-specific anosmia, with variant carriers rating the musk Galaxolide 17 to 35 percent weaker than everyone else — and because different musks are read by different receptors, you can be blind to one and fully sensitive to the rest. On a fragrance built this heavily on musks, that shows up as a bottle that smells like almost nothing on you and unmistakable on a friend.