Comparing this side-by-side with African Leather, I'd say the openings are different enough to not make you think that FS is a clone of AL. That said, the dry down gets extremely close to the OG, so much so that I'd say that if you don't mind the differences in the opening between the two, there's no reason to pay extra for the real thing, especially since the reform that happened between the original black bottle and the current gray/green bottle effected the performance. This is about 90% close to the OG, so, when considering price per ml, there's almost no reason to get the OG over this.