diff --git a/app/controllers/admin/products_v3_controller.rb b/app/controllers/admin/products_v3_controller.rb
index 1b152773736..3a4af9bcc7a 100644
--- a/app/controllers/admin/products_v3_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/admin/products_v3_controller.rb
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ def clone
         @producer_options = producers
         @category_options = categories
         @tax_category_options = tax_category_options
-      rescue ActiveRecord::ActiveRecordError => _e
-        flash.now[:error] = t('.error')
+      rescue ActiveRecord::ActiveRecordError => e
+        flash.now[:error] = clone_error_message(e)
         status = :unprocessable_entity
         @product_index = "-1" # Create a unique enough index
       end
@@ -213,6 +213,15 @@ def products_bulk_params
       params.permit(products: ::PermittedAttributes::Product.attributes)
         .to_h.with_indifferent_access
     end
+
+    def clone_error_message(error)
+      case error
+      when ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid
+        error.record.errors.full_messages.to_sentence
+      else
+        t('.error')
+      end
+    end
   end
 end
 # rubocop:enable Metrics/ClassLength
diff --git a/config/locales/en.yml b/config/locales/en.yml
index f1041c92bbb..44ce0f6c865 100644
--- a/config/locales/en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/en.yml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ en:
         price: "Price"
         primary_taxon_id: "Product Category"
         shipping_category_id: "Shipping Category"
-        variant_unit: "Variant Unit"
+        variant_unit: "Unit Scale"
         variant_unit_name: "Variant Unit Name"
         unit_value: "Unit value"
       spree/variant:
diff --git a/spec/system/admin/products_v3/actions_spec.rb b/spec/system/admin/products_v3/actions_spec.rb
index 74ce58cbe0d..368f6d85950 100644
--- a/spec/system/admin/products_v3/actions_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/system/admin/products_v3/actions_spec.rb
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ def save_preferences
 
           click_product_clone "Apples"
 
-          expect(page).to have_content "Unable to clone the product"
+          expect(page).to have_content "Unit Scale can't be blank"
 
           within "table.products" do
             # Products does not include the cloned product.