Creed Cologne

History is important, and to keep up with it, all Creed perfumes have to be a precious, luxury fragrance with the best quality ingredients like roses from Bulgaria, Turkey and Morocco, Italian jasmine and laurel.
Among Creed’s customers, the list of celebrities is long. All the most beautiful men in the world wear them: Richard Gere, Robert Redford, Robbie Williams (ok, not so beautiful maybe), George Clooney and… the Prince of Wales.
To me this air of exclusivity makes this Creed parfume the ideal gift every time I need to buy or advise a perfume as a gift for any male friend older than 30, with a professional style.

The notes

The opening of notes of this fragrance have a fairly classic style, with different ingredients that remain separated rather than mixed together and are easy to detect. The ingredients here are green herbs, like basil, other soft spices, less intense than pepper, and a dry base which could be a subtle trace of iris and amber. The shift to the middle phase comes out very gradually, as some of the initial notes fade. Iris and amber are still there, slightly more intense, and a line of notes on the verge of floral start, between lavender and juniper, which reminds of Eternity perfume by Calvin Klein. At this point this fragrance remains stable for several hours, remaining intense from a very close distance, but not reaching one meter from the skin. In the final phase juniper mixes with mint, and also with some new florals like violet and more lukewarm notes of musk.

To sum up

This Creeed perfume Green Irish Tweed is a good balance between the originality of artisanal, almost home made perfumery, and the current romantic style of many perfumes of the same category. The style is very similar to Eternity or Davidoff Cool Water (with which is often compared)