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King of Judea Attar The Dua Brand

8.4 / 10 182 Ratings

A popular perfume by The Dua Brand for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is sweet-spicy. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production. The perfume is vegan according to the manufacturer.
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Main accords

Sweet

Spicy

Woody

Smoky

Oriental

Fragrance Notes

Tobacco

Osmanthus

Vanilla

Cinnamon

Labdanum

Pepperwood™ Cypriol

Cypriol

Frankincense

ISO-E-Super Musk

Musk

Patchouli

Cedar

Vetiver

Ratings

Scent

8.4182 Ratings

Longevity

8.6167 Ratings

Sillage

8.2166 Ratings

Bottle

5.4172 Ratings

Value for money

7.5134 Ratings

Submitted by EvilCat · last update on 10/13/2025.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Inspired Expression collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Herod

Arabian Horse Parfum Extract

Alloro

Hercules

Spicebomb Extreme

Judea's Casino Royale

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/16/2023

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

TheRealFunk
10 Reviews

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TheRealFunk

Helpful Review 8

From the March of the King into His Enchanting Palace

We start off objectively, as the first moments of the fragrance still tempt us to do so. Right after spraying, it is temporarily not as refined and delicate as Herod. However, it more than makes up for that in the drydown! In fact, I find that some other Duas come very close to the fragrance, but are not better than the original. This is not the case here, as King of Judea gets better and better in the drydown. Even in direct comparison to Herod, it leaves this one behind and fades away in the drydown. It ascends the throne itself, having built a new, much more beautiful palace of scents. The drydown is like a gondola ride to the highest peak. Always more seductive, creamier... The best tobacco I have ever smelled is caressed by distinctly noticeable cinnamon and vanilla, while the cedarwood in the background gives it body and depth. The sillage and longevity are insane. Simply unbelievable! However, in the drydown, it is no longer in the manner of: "in your face - I wear Herod/King of Judea. Swallow this information or choke on it!!" (This appearance of the Judean king is somewhat the case in the first hour)... after this initial royal march with drums and fanfares, flanked by all the Judean legions, it then transitions into the royal palace. Through this gate of vanilla and cinnamon, upon crossing which one is met only by the faintest, softest, and briefest whiff of incense, probably just to prevent the smell of the street from having a chance to enter this sanctuary... one discovers a palace where seduction, luxury, and all things beautiful prevail, and tobacco leaves hang to dry. What is the additional nuance that makes this palace of fragrance so beautiful, so seductive... perhaps the ladies of the palace whose skin smells of vanilla, cinnamon, and beauty, or maybe the aura of the majestic king himself? You will only find out if you enter the palace of the King of Judea yourself. Welcome :)

08/16/2021

10Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Marth
15 Reviews

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Marth

Top Review 33

Finally, I have you back!

Hey everyone,
I want to share my excitement with you. I can still vividly remember the moment I first smelled Herod. The whole room was flooded with this incredibly spicy and sublime scent. I was shockingly in love. Cinnamon, tobacco, and pepperwood in perfection. So, to be safe, I bought Herod directly from Marly. Once home, I sprayed it on and... huh? This is not Herod! No warmth, no cinnamon, a completely different scent, additionally with a really unpleasant metallic note. After a lot of research, I read that the fragrances are diluted or reformulated, or that different batches vary. Others say the fragrances need to mature. Absolute nonsense! It annoys me immensely what customers have to put up with. It’s a damn formula, and if you stick to the plan, the scent should always smell the same. I also don’t understand why everything has to be constantly improved? The perfumes are expensive enough to maintain quality in the long term. And boundless greed for profit has never done anyone any good.
So, enough complaining.
Now for the positive: Dua has managed to capture this enchanting scent and the emotions of my 2018 Herod 1:1. I am happy!!! I can't say anything about the longevity yet, but I will follow up on that.
Hopefully, Dua doesn’t change anything about the formula, I really wish for that!
Cheers everyone!

02/03/2021

9.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Duftwaffe
1 Review

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Duftwaffe

Top Review 56

The Herod Effect

I have tried several times to condense everything into a statement, but each time I was limited by the maximum character count, so this now seems to be my first comment.
And that for a dupe, strange aftertaste.

Well then, let’s start with why I have so much to write about this fragrance.
Years ago, long before I delved deeply into the topic of perfume - "hey, Le Male smells seductive and is a must-have, One Million is rightly worn by every second person, and Davidoff Cool Water smells like you just stepped out of the shower" - I stumbled through the bathroom at a house party at a good friend's place and was confronted with a jumble of perfume bottles.
Completely overwhelmed as to why someone needs so many perfumes and why there was no Le Male among them, I confronted him. He just laughed and took a bottle from his collection.
It looked cool, I had to admit. He sprayed it on my neck, on my shirt, and on my wrist.
“Smell this.”
And for the first time, I smelled Herod. I was blown away. Excuse the anglicism, but it just fits best. What a fragrance, I couldn’t stop sniffing my wrist.
My then-girlfriend was also very enthusiastic, often catching herself smelling me.
And so it happened again and again that I would wear Herod at his place whenever I had the chance and simply enjoyed the scent.

Years later, when I slowly started acquiring my own “special” perfumes, it was time for Herod to move in with me as well. First as a decant.
The package arrived, I nearly tore it open in the air to get to the long-awaited fragrance as quickly as possible, took it, and sprayed it directly on my wrist - and was confused.
Did it always smell like this? Was this the scent I had fallen in love with years ago? Too bad, it seems my taste has changed after all. It was good, but nowhere near as phenomenal as I remembered.
And somehow, it only lasted a few hours, not like I remembered it lasting all evening.

Then, some time ago, my aforementioned acquaintance visited and went through my fragrances, and he came across the Herod decant. “Cool, Herod! Mine has been empty for a while, can I try it?” Sure, he could. And then it happened: His reaction was identical. He was convinced that it must be a counterfeit, a so-called dupe, and not even a particularly good one.
He ordered a bottle some time later because he was convinced that the original smells different.
No. It didn’t. It smelled very similar and had a very similar performance. We were both overwhelmed. Disappointed.

And that brings me slowly to the actual purpose of this long comment: Dua Fragrances - King of Judea Attar.
I encountered this fragrance here in the forum, extremely critical due to the bad experiences of others with known dupes - to be honest, not specifically with Herod, but just disappointed with dupes in general. Yes, they smell similar, nothing more. They perform worse, like a shadow of the desired scent.
Nevertheless, curiosity and the longing for the past experience won out, which is why I got myself a bottle.
When it arrived, I was initially just surprised at how incredibly cheap and unremarkable the bottle looked. I simply couldn’t connect the bottle with the hoped-for spectacular content; it just looked like a typical generic dupe container to me.
I sprayed it on, and was initially rewarded with a very biting note.
Too soon to sniff, it seems. As this slowly faded, something unexpected happened:
There it was. That was the scent that burst my “The world only needs the 5 known fragrances” bubble.
So I hadn’t been mistaken. The fragrance was that good back then. And King of Judea Attar is still that good.
I am by no means a perfume expert, but a layman who is slowly, bit by bit, discovering the world of scents for himself. So don’t pin me down on specific notes, olfactory perception, or anything like that.
I just wanted to share my little journey with you and let you know that this clone, this dupe, has managed to revive exactly that experience I had the first time I got to smell Herod. Thank you for that, Dua.

Ultimately, I can only say that I can describe my subjective feelings here. Personally, I like it far better than the new Herod batches.

10/22/2020

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Ramboss
11 Reviews

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Ramboss

10

Herod Intense? More like Herod Light!²

I can't understand how some people come to label this as Herod Intense. I've been sniffing both fragrances alternately for 15 minutes, and while I do recognize Herod in this scent, it smells more like I’ve had Herod on for ages and it’s at that point where you can only catch faint remnants of it. However, it’s not that you can’t smell it anymore; rather, it smells very, very soft in comparison. You have to imagine that you’ve been wearing Herod for 8 hours, all the notes have blended together, and it’s just starting to fade from the skin so that you can only catch a very light whiff of it. You then take that scent and turn the power dial back up. This way, you can perceive it quite well again, but it doesn’t smell like it did at the beginning. That’s how I would describe it in layman’s terms :)