Your Touch

#968 in my "Tour de Fragrance" I get a lot of messages from guys with limited means asking me my opinion of inexpensive clones, so I try out as many as I reasonably can, and some are great and I'm happy to have them on the shelf, and some not so much and they go to the men's shelter or the college kids. This is one of four Maison Alhambra dupes that arrived today, and it's most similar to Swiss Arabian "Primal Code", kind of like if you mixed Stronger with You Freeze and Armaf Odyssey White. If you like any of the "Stronger with You" line you'll appreciate this. Like those Armani scents, same ballpark as Bentley "Silverlake", Armaf "Niche Sapphire", Avon 'Mesmerize Black", Givenchy "Gentleman Only Intense" but fruitier. Moderate performer. Fine for the office, casual wear, date night. Very fresh. Not likely to offend anyone. For me it's a keeper and at $20 a safe blind buy that will probably go in the gym bag.

Great stuff, they just came out with your touch intense and i got it on the way too. I'd highly recommend this. Sillage and longevity are both above average. I get cardamom, cinnamon, vanilla and a bit of chestnut and maybe a little lavender. 9/10.

It is very good quality, very good price and resembles 92% the original. Highly recommend. Compliment getter, for sure. Since I got this for my brother-in-law, he doesn't wear anything else, and I'm getting his third bottle for his birthday.

I've already reviewed this one but I just got your touch intense. Hoping fragrantica will add it soon. If you liked the og you'll like the intense. Same top notes but the mid and base are different. I think the intense is a bit better.

The notes are completely wrong here for some reason. This is a clone of Stronger With You. And it’s a really close one. Projection is a bit worse, you need to overspray this. On clothes, it lasts for 7-8 hours easily.

@admins can you put the whole your touch lineup on fragrantica? You're missing intense, amber, oud, and tobacco. Thank you.

This should be a 4.3 or 4.4. It's good enough and strong enough to be rated higher.

smells incredibly good after a few months of maceration

Come on fragrantica, add your touch intense.

ADD YOUR TOUCH INTENSE PLEASE FRAGRANTICA

* Good clone of Emporio Armani Stronger With You * Good blend of sweet, spice, vanilla, amber, musk, and wood aromas * Classic gourmand DNA; a must for gourmand lovers * Brighter and fresher than the original * Actually projects better off of skin than Stronger With You * Good alternative to the modern "Sweet and Fresh" style * Good QPR value * Great for cooler weather and intimate occasions * Vanilla is not as strong or rich as the original * Not as warm as the original * Not unisex * Leans towards older users Your Touch is a pretty good clone of Stronger With You. I live near a Sephora and was able to try out the original and compare them. Your Touch is actually better in some ways. It's a noticeably stronger projector and radiates much better off of the skin. It places an equal emphasis on the spices and the vanilla and is much brighter and fresher. This is a classic gourmand style fragrance and is a must for gourmand lovers. On the flip side, it's not as warm as the original which heavily emphasizes the vanilla. Side by side, that vanilla is noticeably stronger and much richer in Stronger With You. But Stronger With You also has terrible projection so that richer warmth doesn't really mean much if people can't smell it off of you. Your Touch is reasonably close to Stronger With You and honestly performs way better for an excellent price. It leans towards older males and is not unisex. This is great for cooler weather and intimate occasions. Recommended.

Ordered a bunch of 1ml decants to test and got this as a bonus. IDK if that was on purpose or just a mistake. So far, I've disliked any fragrance that has cinnamon as a note so i didn't expect i would like this scent, and was a little worried about others saying it smells like fecal matter or a rotten tooth. Well, I don't get that in the slightest, it actually smells pretty nice, it fact it's the first scent with cinnamon that i legitimately like. That said i wouldn't say the cinnamon scent stands out, it just kind of blends well with everything else, which is maybe why i like it more. Still not a major fav for me personally, but i wouldn't mind waring it from time to time if i had it. The others maybe just got a really bad batch or maybe some sort of counterfeit? Or maybe since this is a 1ml sample, it may have already had months of maceration before i bought it and hence smells better?

When i first got it, it didn't like it that much, but after 3 months of maceration it has become strong and it's scent has been improved, i like the drydown of it but i don't appreciate the smell of chest nuts in this because they smell a little bit weird. This can be worn in the winter and fall time and i think spring too because it isn't overpowering or overcloying and this has a touch of sweetness and it has great longevity and projection, lasts for about 9 hours(on my skin) and projects 3 feet. This can be your daily scent and its definitely blind buy safe but make sure to let it macerate. Lonngevity: 8/10 Projection:7/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall:7/10

Like the other review says, the notes don't make sense because this is a dupe of Stronger with You and I agree it's a close one. I have a sample of Stronger with You and this, when wearing both, one on each wrist its really hard to smell a difference. I'm sure a more trained nose could point out the 10% difference, but I'd say it's 90% similar to the OG. So the notes should be something like this (copying Stronger with You notes) TOP: Chestnut & Sugar MID: Sage & Lavender BASE: Vanilla & Smoke

Your Touch by Maison Alhambra – A Steal Compared to Stronger With You Your Touch brings the same sweet, woody vibe as Stronger With You Intensely, but with a bit more spice and better performance. Sometimes it lasts just an hour, but when it settles, it pushes past 12 hours. At just $15, it’s a bargain—especially when Stronger With You charges $100 for almost the same scent. Why pay more when this spicy alternative does it better?

The smell of chestnuts is like the smell of an old person's breath. and adding chestnuts to this perfume destroys its beautiful smell. I think it needs to soak for a couple of months and we'll see if the artificial chestnut smell goes away. After a period of soaking for months, the scent became much more beautiful and the durability is good.

Very good value. Very likable and warm scent. To me, this is an inoffensive, dumb reach kind of fragrance. In my opinion it’s not a “night” fragrance as most people seem to rate it as, here. It’s one that would work perfect for work, school or running errands.

I was looking for a cozy winter fragrance and saw that stronger with you by Armani was often recommended. Not having the financial means to buy overpriced designer frags , I gave this one a chance. Having good experience with Maison Alhambra I expected a nice clone of a designer frag. Im very confused when it comes to this fragrance. Sometimes it smells absolutely amazing but some times it smells lika monure. Im not joking. I can't understand why though. I wish they've would have kept it simple and just skip the part that smells like the elephants at the circus having a bad stomach. I've learned that you have to leave all middle eastern fragrances to macerate for a while but I can't imagine how this fragrance is going to get better with time smelling like monure. Why oh why do I always fail with the blind buys.... Update 2025*** It has gotten alot better and that manure smell has mostly disappeared but not entirely. For me personally this is still an ok smell . Not bad but still not good enough for me to buy this again. It was cheap when I bought it and for that price it was worth it I guess. 20 Euros.

So to spare a long read, OUD plus SWY. It's not a heavy oud scent but that is where some of the shite like smell comes from. It's not heavy, in the air not that noticeable. But nose to skin, there honestly is a funk sitting in the scent. Just enough to notice. A little shite smell is too much for me. But I will let it macerate for a while and see if it improves before giving or selling. Side note, Fragrance World Proud of You Absolutely is very nice! Similar price, but it is a little darker like SWY Absolutely. Guess I just need to stick to the designer on this one lol.

i get a sharp minty note in the opening , it is close to swy scent profile but there is something off about it ,very synthetic 6/10

Sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit 🫤🫤

If you are looking for the Vanilla Sweetness of the OG Stronger with You, you'll be disappointed, as the "main accords" suggests, warm spice over powers the vanilla to the point that I can't smell vanilla what so ever. But the warm spice too is really chemically smelling.

It smells like a bad rotten tooth. I should not get that experience in a perfume. That was disgusting. Other people said like feces. Is like a piece of meet that stayed in the teeth. I liked many Maison Alhambra female perfumes and i got them for presents. This one was the first male perfume i got from the brand and it was horrible. Even if some or many does not smell it, imagine if you smell like that to any number of people, even to just one.

I bought on Amazon and returned two days later. It smells fecal mixed with nice perfume. I thought that was just the beginning but the shit's smell stayed all long. Fortunately I tested alone at home and I didn't went to work with it. Worst perfume experience in my life.

It looks like stronger with you but after 10 minutes after spray it smell like shit with stronger , i don't recommend it.

Is this a safe blind buy? Will it get better after oxidation

Your Touch isn't trying to be a SWY clone, maybe sometimes... but it's a little closer to SWY Intesely. This is exactly it. I would write that it is a linear fragrance, but the "master of ceremony" from Maison Alhambra 😉 included everything that could possibly be impressive from the very beginning. Therefore, both top notes, heart notes and base notes are felt almost immediately. Some, because it is only an attempt to clone a well-known fragrance and not a clone that has fully captured all the complexity of the original. So we get cardamom, violet leaf, a bit of mint, cinnamon, a bit more fruit and vanilla. We get all this from the first spray, the scent doesn't develop much so it stays almost the same until the very end. We immediately get everything that is "best". 😉 This is definitely SWYI's DNA, this fragrance is quite long lasting and projects quite well. It is sweet, fruity, and not an unpleasant scent. Moreover, the SWY fragrance line itself is not very refined, so the crazy directness presented by the clone should not offend anyone. I suspect that even a random passerby wearing perfumes from this series will not be able to notice the difference. My "Your Touch" is only four months old and it seems to me that the parameters are better than those shown on this website. There is a similar scent - a clone from La Rive, with a similar profile... twice as cheap, but its capabilities are much lower than those of our "hero" in terms of longevity and projection. Maison Alhambra is something that can replace SWYI in less demanding situations - shopping, going out of town, going to the gym. In fact it has quite versatile uses... and it's so cheap!!! This is a very good choice. And I'm writing this when my bottle is only four months old, I'm waiting to see how it will develop over the next months, if at all. It will definitely become a bit more durable and its projection will improve. I recommend it, especially to all incurable snobs. 😁 Yes, I also have few bottles from the SWY collection and I can easily compare them. There are also other nice and very cheap options (Armaf Odyssey Homme White Edition is more than twice as expensive, that's why I don't compare it with YT), but these are definitely not as good as MA's frag. $15, that's really funny.

I'm a big fan of the original Stronger With You EDT. Original SWY has that perfectly smooth blend of woods/sweetness/amber that makes it one of my go-to fragrances in the colder seasons. Your Touch is definitely a clone of that, but I don't think this is a good one. I'm being picky, but there is a funky smell in this one that makes it inferior to other dupes I've tried. To my nose it smells like SWY around 80-85%, but with a stinky oud-type note in there. Maybe it's an overdose of the Guaiac wood. I've opened and sprayed the bottle a few months ago and let it sit; it's still there. Performance is just okay, as is with most Maison Alhambras. I'll be passing this bottle on to someone else. I prefer Armaf Odyssey White, which has a lighter freshness. CR7 Game On is also better to me. And by the way, the original SWY EDT is still affordable and can be found (especially when on sale) for about $50. It's worth every penny, because none of the clones are quite like it. You don't need all the money-grab flankers, the original is where it's at. Watch out for fakes, the market is flooded with them. Only buy from reputable sellers.

I have the intense version of your touch. It's pretty meh, pretty mid but it's also cheap. I think you can find better fragrances at this price point, it's a mid dupe of intensely, it smells similar yet with way less strength or recognizability. Decent, I guess.

I don't want to write this one off. But, went into a store, sprayed it in skin. And, it actually smelled like shit. Like, actual fecal matter. As of right now 0/10. Will update if I get to try a matured bottle (if it does mature at all)

I got sent a free sample of this, it's nice. A little more fruity floral than Oud 24h Gold but almost identical otherwise. I don't have SWY to compare it to but it smells how I remember it smelling.

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Somebody needs to add the Your Touch Intense version as well! I need to find out the longevity and sillage before buying.

Please add the whole Your Touch line, Fragrantica!

Add Your touch intense, tobacco, oud, amber