Dior Lip Oil Dupes Ranked: Four I Tested Against the £40 Original

There's a particular kind of internet beauty product that becomes so famous, so quickly, that you almost resent buying it. The Dior Lip Glow Oil is that product. It's the one everyone on TikTok holds up to their mouth with a little smug flourish, the one beauty editors quietly keep in their top drawers, and the one that costs forty pounds for what is, let's be honest, a shiny little wand of oil. Forty pounds.

At some point, a woman who is trying to be sensible about her spending has to ask the obvious question: is there a Dior Lip Oil dupe that actually holds up? Something that gives you the same glassy, plumped, your-lips-but-better finish without the twinge of guilt at the till. The good news is that the market has gone slightly mad for lip oils in the last couple of years, which means we're spoiled for options. The less good news is that they are absolutely not all equal, and the price tag tells you far less than you'd think.

So I bought four of the most talked-about contenders on the British beauty shelves, the Dior original as a control, and put the lot of them through a very unscientific but very thorough week of testing. Handbag survival. Shine payoff. How long each one actually clung on through a coffee, a glass of wine, and a proper chatty dinner. What follows is the ladder, from worst to best, and the answer to the question you actually want answered: do you need the Dior, or does eight quid get you there?

The Dior Lip Glow Oil: What We're Actually Trying to Replicate

Before we get to the dupes, a quick word on why Dior Lip Oil dupes are such a phenomenon in the first place. The original Dior Lip Glow Oil sits at around £32 to £40 depending on where you buy it and whether there's a Boots points event on, and it built its reputation on three things. The colour shifts slightly to your own lip tone, the finish is properly glossy without being gloopy, and the applicator is a fat little doe-foot that feels luxurious every time you use it.

The texture is the thing most dupes get wrong. Dior's formula is oil-heavy but not sticky, so it stays comfortable for hours and doesn't turn tacky when the wind picks up. It's also reasonably long-wearing for an oil, which is traditionally the category's weakness. The rest of this piece is me asking, with a straight face, whether any of these dupes manage all three.

How I Tested Them

Each oil got two full days of wear. Applied fresh in the morning after moisturiser, reapplied once at lunch, and observed through the chaos of real life: a flat white, a phone call, a sandwich, a walk in the wind, and one dinner with red wine. I scored each one on four things: initial shine, how it felt after ten minutes, whether it survived a mug without vanishing entirely, and whether I reached for it again voluntarily the next day. That last one matters more than people think.

Fourth Place: Refy Lip Jelly (£16)

Refy has built a beautiful brand around the idea of refined, considered beauty, and the packaging genuinely does feel lovely in your hand. The Lip Jelly sits at a sensible middle-ground price point and on paper, this should have been a contender. In practice, it's the one I'd skip if I were buying again.

The texture is thicker than the others, closer to a gloss than an oil, and on the lip it reads as sticky rather than slippy. That sounds like a small complaint until you've spent half an hour peeling your hair off your bottom lip every time the wind shifts. The shine is genuinely pretty, I'll give it that, and the applicator is fine. But the wear time was the shortest of the group, and the formula never settled into something that felt comfortable.

If you love a proper gloss finish and don't mind the tack, Refy has its fans. As a Dior Lip Oil dupe specifically, though, it's the furthest from the brief. It's trying to do something else entirely.

Third Place: Revolution Juicy Lip Oil (£8)

This is the one that had me raising an eyebrow in the best way. Eight pounds. Eight. For a product that, if you handed it to someone blindfolded, they would genuinely struggle to distinguish from something three or four times the price. Revolution has been quietly improving its formulas for years now, and the Juicy Lip Oil is proof.

The finish is properly glossy, the applicator is a satisfying fat doe-foot, and the oil itself feels light rather than heavy. Where it falls short of the top two is longevity and that slightly harder-to-pin-down quality that makes a luxury product feel luxurious. Reapply after your first coffee and you're fine. Skip the reapply and you'll find yourself at 11am with lips that are moisturised but no longer making a statement.

For the price, it's almost unfair. If you're a teenager or a student or someone who simply resents spending more than a tenner on anything that goes on your mouth, this is where the Dior Lip Oil dupes conversation starts and ends. Genuinely impressive, and I'll keep one in the car for good measure.

Second Place: Rhode Peptide Lip Tint (£22)

Rhode arrived in the UK with a properly theatrical launch, and the Peptide Lip Tint has been hard to get hold of for months because it sells out the moment a restock lands. Now that it's more available, I was genuinely curious whether the product lived up to the hype and the marketing budget behind it.

It does. Mostly. The formula is closer to a tinted balm than a true oil, which means the finish is a softer, more pillowy gloss rather than the glassy-mirror effect you get from Dior. The peptide claim is the sort of thing that makes you roll your eyes in a beauty press release, but the texture really is comforting, and my lips looked noticeably plumper and better conditioned. It's the one that performs best overnight, if that tells you anything.

Two things keep it out of first place. The shine isn't as high-impact as Dior or the winner below, so if you're chasing that mirror finish specifically, you'll be slightly disappointed. And the handbag survival is middling, mostly because the packaging feels nice but isn't the most robust I've ever thrown into a tote. But as a genuine everyday luxury purchase, something you'd be happy to hand someone across the table, it earns its place.

First Place: Gisou Honey Infused Lip Oil (£32)

Here's where we get honest. The Gisou Honey Infused Lip Oil is technically a dupe of the Dior Lip Glow Oil only in the loosest sense, because at £32 you are saving almost nothing. What it is, though, is the better product. And when you are comparing Dior Lip Oil dupes, price isn't the only metric that matters. Sometimes the question is whether there's something out there that actually outperforms the thing everyone is trying to copy.

The Gisou gives you the highest shine of the lot. The honey scent is gorgeous without being sickly, the formula feels genuinely nourishing rather than just slippy, and it lasts longer on the lip than any of the others including the Dior. My lips felt better after a few days of wearing it than they did at the start of the test, which I can't say for all of the others. The applicator is brilliant. The packaging is properly pretty.

If the Dior's whole pitch is glassy, plumped, your-lips-but-better, Gisou does the same thing but softer, warmer, and with more of a skincare benefit underneath. The price is almost identical, so this isn't a money-saving recommendation. It's a better-product recommendation. When people ask me what to buy, this is where I point them.

So Do You Actually Need the Dior?

The honest answer, after a week of swapping between all of them, is no. Not really. The Dior is a very good lip oil, but it is not the best lip oil you can buy in Britain right now, and it is certainly not a uniquely good lip oil that can't be replicated elsewhere. If you want the exact Dior experience at a fraction of the cost, the Revolution Juicy Lip Oil gets you about eighty percent of the way there for a fifth of the price. If you want the best lip oil full stop, the Gisou is worth the same money for a noticeably better product. If you want something that treats your lips as well as it finishes them, Rhode is a proper contender.

The only dupe I wouldn't repurchase is Refy, and even that comes down to personal preference rather than the product being bad. It's just trying to be a gloss, not an oil.

A Quick Word on Shade and Skin Tone

One thing worth saying, because it comes up constantly. None of these products is a true lipstick replacement. They're all sheer, they all work with rather than against your natural lip tone, and they all look slightly different on every person who wears them.

For pale and cool-tone lips, the clear or honey-tinted versions of all four will read more glossy than pigmented. For deeper or warmer lip tones, the tinted shades across the range come through more visibly and give more colour payoff. The Rhode tints are probably the most forgiving across a range of skin tones because the formula itself is slightly opaquer.

The Everyday Luxury Verdict

The whole point of a lip oil is that it's meant to be the easy one. The product you grab without thinking, that makes you look pulled together in a meeting, that sits in your handbag through a long day and comes out still useful at 9pm. An everyday luxury, properly defined.

That's why I land where I land. Gisou in the dressing table drawer and handbag for proper days, Revolution in the car and the gym bag for the ones where you just need something fast. The Dior, with genuine affection, can stay on the shelf at Selfridges. There are better ways to spend £40.

If this one was helpful, you'll probably enjoy my collection of beauty and wellness posts. And if you've tried any of these and disagreed with me entirely, come and shout at me on Instagram. I'm always ready to hear I've called it wrong.