Hi Janvee,
As you are discovering it can be very difficult to “match” one mattress to another because it is rare that one mattress will have exactly the same design and types and firmness of material. layers, and components as another one. Every layer will affect the feel and performance of a mattress to different degrees and even differences in the type of cover and quilting can make a difference that some people may be quite sensitive to while other may not notice at all.
Post #4 here and post #14 here will give you some sense of the challenges that can be involved in “matching” what you test locally to what you may be looking at with an online purchase. In most cases your local testing can be a useful “approximation” but the ability to adjust or exchange layers can also be an important part of fine tuning a mattress that you haven’t tested in person. Generally the best approach is with a combination of local testing to give you a general sense of different combinations, discussions with the manufacturer or retailer of the mattress you are considering, and some “intuitive or educated guesswork” which together can usually get fairly close.
The Entice would be very different from the Aloe Alexis. It has 3" of slow response latex in the top layer which feels very different and more like memory foam than the more usual “fast response” latex that is used in the Alexis and most other latex mattresses. It also has only 2" of latex underneath this and the cover and quilting are also very different.
Entice:
3" ActiveFUSION Slow Natural Talalay
2" Natural Talalay
8" Bonded Foam/Latex (this is 90% polyfoam and 10% latex)
The top 5" or 6" of a mattress for most people are the most important parts of what they “feel” (the deeper layers are more connected to primary support and what you “feel” when you wake up in the morning) and the close you can get to approximating the top layers the more likely another mattress that uses similar layers on top will feel similar.
If you want to test Dunlop then besides some of the manufacturers or retailers in the Los Angeles list (and one of our members is quite close to you) there are a couple of retailers fairly close to you that carry Dunlop latex mattresses.
http://www.thecleanbedroom.com/Santa-Monica-Showroom.htm
Phoenix