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Himalaya Creed 2002

7.7 / 10 1129 Ratings

A popular perfume by Creed for men, released in 2002. The scent is fresh-citrusy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Fresh

Citrus

Woody

Spicy

Aquatic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Lemon

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Juniper berry

Lavender

Pepper

Jasmine

Nutmeg

Gun powder

Base Notes

Cedarwood

Sandalwood

Tonka bean Vetiver

Vetiver

Ratings

Scent

7.71129 Ratings

Longevity

7.0956 Ratings

Sillage

6.6933 Ratings

Bottle

7.8891 Ratings

Value for money

5.7462 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 09/24/2025.

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Reviews

70 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/09/2012

10Scent 5Longevity

Eternity
8 Reviews

Eternity

Helpful Review 3

A Scent for Mr. Big

Himalaya promises clarity, purity- almost transparency. And the scent keeps it promise. It's a scent for Mr. Big in "Sex and the City". Attractive, successful, charming, intelligent and so forth. This scent fits a man wearing a suit, who is successful in his business and who doesn't want to catch attraction due to a strong, individual perfume. Himalaya is understatement at its best. It's of very high quality. Very fresh and clear. This transparency and clarity has a positive effect on your business environment. It doesn't distract but it's present in the background. I first got to know this scent when I met a top manager who always had to look neat and well-rested while he had to perform on a top-level day by day. He could have gone for any scent in this world, because he has pots of money but he decided to go for Himalaya.

As a woman I find this scent smashing!

Btw, Mr.Big actually uses Eau Sauvage in Sex and the city as the movie has told us :-)

07/14/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 4

What?

I don’t know the Creed line very well, but just tried Original Vetiver and Himalaya. The former is a clone, the latter not so much a clone as simply derivative. Himalaya smells like 75% Salvador Dali’s Laguna mixed with 25% Cool Water. It settles down to a metallic musk without distinction. Laguna and Cool Water both have far more coherent drydowns.

Thank goodness I tried Irisia from Creed at the same sitting. Otherwise I’d have written this house off with 2 strikes.

Also, these names. I loved Irisia, but there’s not a trace of iris to be found. Original Vetiver without a bit of vetiver in the composition. Himalaya? Iconic mountain range full of bucket-list implications for the western bourgeois dilettante? Cliche watery-fruity fragrance? What’s the association? This is less le Labo misdirection than bad lifestyle marketing in the vein of RL Safari.

12/18/2017

MasterLi
375 Reviews

MasterLi

Helpful Review 3

Impressive smell, bright, fresh, zesty, pure...

I am impressed by the smell of this one. I've now tried a few Creed fragrances and think that Himalaya can compete with the famous ones. I get an opening of juniper berry and bergamot (with citrus: presumably grapefruit and lemon). The sandalwood, ambergris and cedar wood make a great base. It seems simple, yet it delivers a really good punch and is interesting. I don't have a point of reference to compare it to designer fragrances, but I will say that I am yet to be disappointed by a Creed fragrance. I also get the inspiration for this fragrance as the mountains of the Himalayas. This smells like how you would imagine iron rich mineral water from a mountain stream to smell like. Ultimately, I do think it's a good fragrance, and again, as with all Creed fragrances, it's up to you to decide whether to invest and purchase or not.

03/11/2013

6Scent 2.5Longevity 5Sillage

Miaw2
339 Reviews

Miaw2

Helpful Review 2

Another disappointment

"Another disappointment"

It is a light musky with some woods and citrus tones. It smells good, but not worth the price.

Expected more from a Creed and this also disappointed me: not that it's bad, on the contrary, has a fantastic aroma and very well built.

The disappointment is in the sense that it lacks personality: much like aroma with Paco Rabanne XS, launched 11 years before, lacking therefore originality.

Sillage, duration and projection are medium / low.

Updated December 2014

12/09/2022

8.5Scent 2Longevity 3Sillage

Siento606
1 Review

Siento606

3

Very underwhelming in 2022

The first Creed I have tried. After initial application I felt like this may be a good perfume for a sophisticated, successful woman. Unfortunately I am an unsophisticated, modest man.

Notes here all seem accurate, but any top notes seem to disappear in seconds. After 30 minutes of very smooth well balanced heart notes, again to me more feminine than masculine, it settles into a vague clean smell, like a woman who showered three hours ago but didn't wear perfume. Not a bad smell, but nothing to grab your attention either.

On me, even with liberal application, it's skin-close after 45 minutes, completely imperceptible after about 4 hours. I have not experienced anything at this proce point that performed so poorly.

Even if it performed, to me the scent is so mundane. Is there such a thing as too smooth, too well-balanced? It smells good, but I'm not sure why anyone would wear it. Safe to skip this one.

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