Is Montblanc Individuel a dupe of Creed Original Santal?
Close match Widely recommended as a substitute, and most people who compared them agree.
Montblanc Individuel is a close match to Creed Original Santal. Of 12 independent sources that compared them, 8 say it is near-identical or close, 4 say it is similar or inspired by it and 0 disagree. It appears on 1 community dupe list. Individuel costs $27.00 for 75 ml at MicroPerfumes ($0.36/ml); Original Santal costs $295.00 for 100 ml at MicroPerfumes ($2.95/ml), so the alternative costs 88% less per ml. Prices are checked every 20 minutes. These figures last changed on .
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Original Santal
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Montblanc
Individuel
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| Price | $295 100 ml | $27 75 ml |
| Per ml | $2.95 | $0.36 |
| Verdict | Close match of Original Santal | |
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| Buy | See prices | See prices |
The evidence
- Say close 8
- Say similar or inspired by 4
Confidence: 77%. It combines how many independent sources agree, how strongly they word it, how recent they are and how many disagree. How confidence works
In their words 10
Mont Blanc Individuel was the original...Creed Original Santal was the clone
A Reddit comment, Mar 2023, 36 points
Mont Blanc Individuel is supposedly the original and Original Santal the dupe.
A Reddit comment, Dec 2025, 12 points
Creed's Original Santal was likely inspired by Montblanc Individuel, which was likely inspired by Joop Homme
A Reddit comment, May 2025, 8 points
Original Santal is a clone of Mont Blanc Individuel, everytime you see the word Original in Creed, you know its a clone of something, they put the word original to influence buyers to think the other way around
A Reddit comment, Mar 2023, 6 points
Yep, and Creed Original Santal is a Montblanc Individuel clone
A Reddit comment, Nov 2020, 5 points
But there is already Creed Original Santal that is a clone of Montblanc Individuel.
A Reddit comment, Jan 2023, 4 points
Original Santal is generally accepted/regarded as a clone of Individuel as Individuel was released before Santal.
A Reddit comment, Jun 2022, 2 points
As has been pointed out here by a poster with a better memory than mine, Creed's Original Santal is regarded by many to be a clone of Mont Blanc's Individuel.
A Reddit comment, Apr 2020, 1 point
Except Original Santal is inspired by Individuel.
A Reddit comment, May 2026, 0 points
Yes Original Santal by Creed was inspired by Montblanc Individuel ( I know crazy right?).
A Reddit comment, Jun 2022, -2 points
Community dupe lists
Lists Montblanc Individuel as an alternative to Creed Original Santal.
How the verdict is worked out is on the how it works page.