I feel the same way about Creed in particular for whatever reason. My only clone and "clone-adjacent" bottles are Armaf Tres Nuit and Montblanc Explorer. I like them both well enough to not feel the need to spend considerably more for what would likely be a marginal improvement in the form of the originals. Maybe if I ever wanted to significantly shrink my collection and wear them as signature scents, but that is pretty much the opposite of my current collection preferences right now. I might just get some small decants of those two original scents and wear them when I occasionally want the "better" version of those fragrances, but I guess I'm not in much of a hurry to do so.