ChatGPT · measured July 2026
The ChatGPT Shelf for Fragrance Dupes
Dossier is the category
74% share against 23% for Lattafa in second. That 51-point gap is the widest of the eight categories by a distance. Walmart supplies 77% of the offers here — more than any single retailer in any other beauty shelf we measured.
- Questions asked
- 554
- Brands seen
- 173
- Offers recorded
- 2,502
- Through a feed
- 82%
Who ChatGPT names
Share of shelf is the percentage of answers a brand appeared in. It is not a rank of quality or sales — it is how often the model brought the brand up when someone asked about a perfume dupe.
- 1 Dossier 74%
- 2 Lattafa 23%
- 3 fine'ry 21%
- 4 MIX:BAR 14%
- 5 Avon 6%
- 6 ALT. Fragrances 4%
- 7 Calvin Klein 4%
- 8 Armaf 4%
Where the offers come from
Every product ChatGPT showed came from somewhere. Brand-direct means the offer pointed at the brand's own store rather than a retailer.
- Walmart 77% · 1,565 offers
- Target 13% · 264 offers
- Brand-direct 5% · 110 offers
- Ulta 1% · 20 offers
- Sephora 1% · 14 offers
How the shelf gets built
82% of the offers here arrived through a product feed rather than a page crawl, and 110 of them came direct from a brand.
| Shelf position | Offers | Through a feed | Brand named |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top of shelf | 1,314 | 81% | 77% |
| Positions 2–3 | 980 | 82% | 76% |
| Position 4 and below | 208 | 83% | 79% |
Who writes this shelf
Before ChatGPT names a a perfume dupe brand, it reads. These are the sources it cited most when building this shelf.
- pickmyclone.com 1,460 citations
- reddit.com 897 citations
- dupe.com 516 citations
- scentfile.com 339 citations
- goodhousekeeping.com 282 citations
- whowhatwear.com 282 citations
How we measured this
- We asked ChatGPT 554 shopping questions about a perfume dupe in July 2026. The questions never named a brand, so nothing here was prompted into the answer.
- Questions were repeated. ChatGPT does not answer the same way twice, so a single ask tells you nothing — share of shelf is the pattern across all 554 of them.
- We recorded every brand mentioned and every product offer shown, 2,502 offers across 173 brands.
- This is one engine, one country, one point in time. It is a snapshot of a shelf that moves.
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