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My bottle has a different design than the one shown here (black and green) - not sure if it's older or newer, but I've had mine for about 2 years now. I did a decent sized Dua haul back in the day to give them a fair shot and came away massively disappointed. Of the 15-20 or so bottles I tried, I loved three (Fawn of Iris, Atelier des Ors Iris Fauve dupe + Pomme Trempee on the Rocks, Kilian Apple Brands OTR dupe, and Jump and Kiss, Clive Christian Jump Up and Kiss Me Hedonistic dupe), sort of liked a couple more and *hated* the rest. This falls into the tepid like category - it's certainly not offensive and I can tell that I'd probably enjoy the real Amethyst Haze, but it has that permeating 'Dua funk' that just detracts from the otherwise solid DNA. I don't see why I would want to wear this over anything else in my relatively large collection, but at least it's not outright gross (and horribly offensive to the great fragrances they're trying to clone) like Dua's Dress Code (generic old lady rose) or Spiced Gourmand (nasty, moldy powdered almonds). Infatuated (Unique'e Luxury - Crush on Me dupe) is also a decent one I guess, but a majority of my blind buys have flopped hard which I've never experienced with any other fragrance company. Avoid blind buying from Dua at all costs, in my opinion - sadly made even more difficult by how hard it is to sample them ahead of time.