Five Lattafa Fragrances That Get You Most of Eros Najim
Let’s start honestly: you can buy Versace Eros Najim in Britain. Harrods and Selfridges both stock it. The question was never availability. It is that Najim’s caramel-cardamom-incense idea turns out to be surprisingly reproducible.
The closest Lattafa alternative to Versace Eros Najim is Qaed Al Fursan Untamed (£11.99), which shares 7 of Najim’s 11 notes: mandarin, cardamom, clary sage, caramel, cedarwood, vetiver and incense. What it lacks is the oud, so it wears drier and more herbal. Emeer (5 of 11) is the drier, more formal reading with no caramel, and Kashaf (4 of 11) is the only one of the five that carries the oud. The ranking is a straight count of shared notes, with no weighting. And if you have smelled Najim and loved it specifically, buy Najim.
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So rather than repeat the “Dubai exclusive you can’t get” line that half the internet is still running, we did something checkable. We took Najim’s published note pyramid, took the pyramids of every fragrance in our range that plausibly sits in the same territory, and counted the overlap. Here is what came out, ranked by evidence, not by margin.
First, What Eros Najim Actually Is
Versace launched Eros Najim in 2024. It has nothing to do with the minty blue Eros most people picture: it is a warm, caramel-and-incense oriental with oud in the middle. The published pyramid runs to eleven notes.
Note lists vary slightly by source; Versace’s own listing runs shorter. We used the fuller eleven-note pyramid so the scoring is harder to pass, not easier.
The Ranking
Notes shared with Najim, out of eleven. Nothing here is weighted or fudged: it is a count.
All Five, Side by Side
| Fragrance | Overlap | Key misses | Where it beats the others | Royal Scents price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qaed Al Fursan Untamed | 7 / 11 | Oud, saffron, patchouli, tonka | The whole structure, top to base | £11.99 · 90ml |
| Emeer | 5 / 11 | Caramel, oud | Clary sage + olibanum. The dry, formal reading | £28.99 · 100ml |
| Kashaf | 4 / 11 | Caramel, mandarin | The only one with oud, plus saffron and tonka | £17.99 · out of stock |
| Creative Art | 4 / 11 | Caramel, oud | Saffron + olibanum. Smells the most expensive | £39.99 · out of stock |
| Mughal Fort | 3 / 11 | Oud, incense, saffron | Nails Najim’s first fifteen minutes exactly | £39.99 · out of stock |
| Versace Eros Najim | — | — | It is the original, and the oud is genuinely lovely | Harrods & Selfridges |
1. Lattafa Qaed Al Fursan Untamed: 7 of 11
✕ Oud✕ Saffron✕ Patchouli✕ Tonka
Nothing else comes close on paper, and nothing else comes close in wear. Untamed rebuilds Najim’s entire opening and drydown structure (the mandarin-cardamom lift, the burnt caramel, the cedar-and-frankincense base) almost item for item.
What it does not have is the oud. And oud is not a detail: it is what gives Najim its smooth, resinous, unmistakably Middle Eastern weight. Lattafa fills the gap with an aromatic accord of lavender, clary sage, geranium and cypress, which pushes Untamed drier, greener and more herbal than the Versace. Some reviewers hear a Burberry Hero edge in it. They are not wrong.
✓ Buy it if what you love about Najim is the caramel-spice-incense frame.
✕ Skip it if what you love is specifically the oud. Look further down this list.
Buy Qaed Al Fursan Untamed Full wear guide: notes, longevity and how many sprays →
Untamed is the third fragrance to carry the Qaed Al Fursan name, and the three smell nothing alike. If you are unsure which one you have seen recommended, our three-way Qaed Al Fursan comparison sorts it out.
2. Lattafa Emeer: 5 of 11
✕ Caramel✕ Oud
The surprise of the exercise. Emeer is not marketed as a Najim anything, but it carries the two notes almost nothing else does, clary sage and olibanum together, plus cardamom, patchouli and cedarwood. That is Najim’s aromatic-resinous skeleton with a cleaner, more polished finish.
The difference is sweetness. Emeer has no caramel, so where Najim goes warm and edible, Emeer stays dry, tea-like and formal. If you found Najim slightly too sweet and wished someone would make the grown-up version, this is closer to what you wanted than Untamed is.
✓ Buy it if you found Najim slightly too sweet and want the dry, grown-up version of its aromatic-resinous side.
✕ Skip it if the warm, edible caramel is the part of Najim you love. Emeer has none.
3. Lattafa Kashaf: 4 of 11, and the Only One With the Oud
✕ Caramel✕ Mandarin
This is the interesting one, and it is the reason this article is not just “buy Untamed.”
Kashaf scores lower than Untamed overall, but look at which four notes it matches. Saffron, agarwood and tonka bean are three of the exact four that Untamed leaves out. Kashaf is, in other words, the complement rather than the competitor: where Untamed rebuilds Najim’s bright caramel-spice half, Kashaf rebuilds its dark resinous half.
✓ Buy it if it is the oud and the dark, resinous half of Najim you are after.
✕ Skip it if you want Najim’s bright mandarin-and-caramel opening. That is Untamed’s territory.
Kashaf is currently out of stock. Check availability → Or start with Untamed →
4. Lattafa Creative Art: 4 of 11
✕ Caramel✕ Oud
Same score as Kashaf, different flavour of it. Creative Art pairs saffron with olibanum and benzoin over a vanilla-amber base, and the elemi in the opening gives it a resinous lift Najim does not have.
It is the most “expensive-smelling” fragrance on this list. Whether it is right for you depends entirely on whether you want a Najim alternative or simply a very good saffron-incense woody, because on the second count it beats everything above it.
✓ Buy it if you want a very good saffron-incense woody more than a Najim alternative.
✕ Skip it if you want Najim’s caramel sweetness or its oud. Creative Art has neither.
Creative Art is currently out of stock. Check availability → Or try Musamam for saffron and incense →
5. Lattafa Mughal Fort: 3 of 11
✕ Oud✕ Incense✕ Saffron
Lowest score on the list and still worth including, because of which three notes it shares: cardamom, cedarwood and caramel. That is the exact trio that makes Najim recognisable in the first fifteen minutes.
Mughal Fort takes that opening and resolves it into vanilla, musk and amber instead of oud and resin. So the first impression is uncannily on-target and the destination is somewhere sweeter and softer. If you liked Najim’s opening more than its base, this is your bottle.
✓ Buy it if you liked Najim’s opening more than its base.
✕ Skip it if it is the oud and resin of Najim’s drydown you want. Mughal Fort lands on vanilla, musk and amber instead.
Mughal Fort is currently out of stock. Check availability → Or try Untamed for the cardamom-caramel opening →
The Honest Bit
A note count measures ingredients, not quality of blending, and Versace’s perfumers work to a different brief. If you have smelled Najim and loved it specifically, buy Najim. Harrods and Selfridges both have it. We would rather tell you that than sell you a bottle you spend a year feeling slightly disappointed by.
What the list is for is the other situation: you smelled Najim on someone, liked the idea of it, and would like most of that idea in something you can spray without thinking about it. On that question the answer is clear, and it is Qaed Al Fursan Untamed.
If you want to see every bottle we group under Versace in one place, including the ones between deliveries, browse our Lattafa Versace-inspired perfumes collection.
In Stock Now: The Najim Picks and Their Neighbours
Our two in-stock picks from the ranking, plus three bottles that sit in the same warm, spicy, resinous territory. The last three were not part of the scoring.
Weighing Untamed against Asad Bourbon? Our Asad collection comparison covers the whole Asad line. Drawn to the frankincense in Untamed, Emeer and Musamam? Frankincense and incense fragrances explained.
Which Najim Alternative Should You Buy?
- Closest overall to Najim?Qaed Al Fursan Untamed →
- Najim, but drier and less sweet?Lattafa Emeer →
- It’s the oud you’re after?Lattafa Kashaf (out of stock) →
- You love Najim specifically?Buy the Versace · Harrods & Selfridges
Lattafa Qaed Al Fursan Untamed 90ml EDP
The closest match we found: 7 of Najim’s 11 notes · £11.99 · 100% authentic · free tracked UK delivery · 30-day returns
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Sources
Najim’s note listing was cross-checked against the independent fragrance database below; Lattafa note pyramids are taken from the product listings linked above.
- Fragrantica — Versace Eros Najim: launch year and community note listing (a shorter list than the eleven notes we scored against).