Skin Code No. 28
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How it smells
Main Notes
Ambrette
Apple
Pear
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TopThe first notes you smell
Ambroxan
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MiddleThe heart of the perfume
Ambrette, Musk
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BaseThe notes that linger all day
Apple, Pear
Ingredients: Alcohol Denat., Fragrance/Parfum, Water/Aqua/Eau, Linalool, Limonene, Coumarin, Eugenol, Benzyl Benzoate.
For the first minute it barely behaves like a fragrance. Ambroxan is closer to a sensation than a smell — dry, faintly saline, warm, like skin that's been in the sun. There's no citrus opening, no floral introduction, nothing to announce it. That minimalism is the entire concept.
Then ambrette arrives — musky, slightly nutty, a little vegetal — and a whisper of apple and pear that reads as freshness rather than fruit. Skin Code sits close and stays there for 8+ hours. People don't ask what you're wearing. They ask why you smell good.
When to wear it
- Every day, all year — there's no season it doesn't fit
- Close-quarters situations: offices, dates, dinners
- Layering under or over another fragrance
- Anyone who wants to smell like themselves, only better
- You want projection and compliments from across a room
- Big occasions where you want to make an entrance
- You dislike musk — this is essentially all musk
Use more than you think — four or five sprays is normal for this style, not excessive. Skin Code is built to sit close, so under-spraying makes it disappear on you within the hour (even though everyone standing near you still smells it).
Honest comparison: Skin Code vs Le Labo Another 13
The same ambroxan-and-musk skin scent that made the original a cult object: minimal, warm, almost anonymous, and unusually addictive to the person wearing it.
Le Labo's version uses a notably high-grade ambroxan with a smoother, less scratchy texture — with a composition this bare, the quality of one material is the whole fragrance. Skin Code is a touch drier at the start; from hour one they're very close.
Refused to pad it out. The temptation with a two-material fragrance is to add citrus or vanilla so it feels like more value. That produces a different scent. We kept the formula as sparse as the original, then raised the concentration to extrait so the sparseness lasts.
Another 13 runs around $320 for 100 ml, and a large part of that price is the label on the bottle. If you want the exact texture of Le Labo's ambroxan, buy it. If you want that warm-skin effect on your skin every day, Skin Code delivers it at a normal price.
Frequently asked
QIs Skin Code a good Le Labo Another 13 dupe?
Yes — Skin Code is one of the closer Another 13 dupes around, which is both easier and harder than usual: the composition is minimal, so there's less to copy, but nowhere to hide either. The warm ambroxan-musk effect lands the same way.
QWhat does Another 13 smell like?
Warm skin. Ambroxan up front — dry, ambery, slightly salty — with musky ambrette and a faint apple-pear freshness underneath. There's no traditional perfume structure; it reads as a clean, amplified version of your own skin.
QHow long does Skin Code last?
8+ hours on skin, though it stays close to the body throughout. Ambroxan is one of the most tenacious materials in perfumery — it will still be on your shirt the next morning.
QCan I layer it with other fragrances?
Yes, and it's one of the best layering scents you can own. A spray of Skin Code under a floral or a woody fragrance warms it and extends it without changing its character.
