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Best cologne under $40

Still worth wearing after lunch.

First pick

Asad

The cheaper bottle to test if Sauvage Elixir was the brief. Sweeter and rougher at the start. Not the same product.

$0.10 a wearSkip if you wanted the polish of the original. The opening is rougher.
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Club de Nuit Intense

The famous cheaper take on Aventus. Smoky pineapple, a rough opening, then wearable. Batch variation is real.

$0.13 a wearSkip if a harsh first ten minutes will annoy you.
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Woody dupe

A cheaper woody in the Bleu lane. Shorter life, cleaner, fine for an office that does not need the real bottle.

$0.23 a wearSkip if you need the incense in Bleu. This gets the shape and misses that.
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