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Black as the night, hot as love, sweet and bitter as life
I have long left Creed very much to the side. The deceitful marketing propaganda has repulsed me too much.
Creed is indeed an old company, and the titles of court supplier are also quite genuine - although Creed did not supply anyone with perfume until the seventies of the twentieth century, regardless of whether they were blue-blooded or otherwise.
The years of appearance of the perfumes, supposedly dating back to the eighteenth century, are sheer nonsense.
Likewise, the pretty stories about various perfumes are nothing more than that: stories.
Despite all this, one must credit Creed with having created very classically oriented perfumes in a quality that is almost unknown today.
Black as the night, hot as love, sweet and bitter as life - this saying is sometimes heard in response to the question about coffee.
Irisia is certainly not black, but Irisia has fire, and Irisia is sweet, and there is also a good portion of bitterness.
I encounter a Chypre that consciously relies on sweetness for the first time with Irisia - it is indeed used moderately, but it runs consistently through the entire scent progression.
The traditionally citrusy Chypre opening here reminds one of the sugary water of canned mandarins - with a certain freshness and sprightliness that, however, takes a backseat to the dominant sweetness - receives a strong contrast with a rich galbanum note, and transitions into a interplay of rose and tuberose, which is equally characterized by radiant, clear sweetness. The tuberose note, which confidently takes center stage, always remains far from the boundaries of the indolic or rubbery and rests on a warm, balsamic, and above all sweet base, where the use of real amber indeed comes into the realm of the probable, and which can also be found in a more austere variant in Miss Dior.
Actually not a fan of sweet scents, I can only explain the subjective attractiveness of Irisia alongside its high quality by the fact that here the cookie, candy, and other gourmand notes have been omitted.
For me, Irisia is one of the most beautiful scents that a woman can adorn herself with.
Creed, with such scents you may gladly do penance. You are forgiven.
Creed is indeed an old company, and the titles of court supplier are also quite genuine - although Creed did not supply anyone with perfume until the seventies of the twentieth century, regardless of whether they were blue-blooded or otherwise.
The years of appearance of the perfumes, supposedly dating back to the eighteenth century, are sheer nonsense.
Likewise, the pretty stories about various perfumes are nothing more than that: stories.
Despite all this, one must credit Creed with having created very classically oriented perfumes in a quality that is almost unknown today.
Black as the night, hot as love, sweet and bitter as life - this saying is sometimes heard in response to the question about coffee.
Irisia is certainly not black, but Irisia has fire, and Irisia is sweet, and there is also a good portion of bitterness.
I encounter a Chypre that consciously relies on sweetness for the first time with Irisia - it is indeed used moderately, but it runs consistently through the entire scent progression.
The traditionally citrusy Chypre opening here reminds one of the sugary water of canned mandarins - with a certain freshness and sprightliness that, however, takes a backseat to the dominant sweetness - receives a strong contrast with a rich galbanum note, and transitions into a interplay of rose and tuberose, which is equally characterized by radiant, clear sweetness. The tuberose note, which confidently takes center stage, always remains far from the boundaries of the indolic or rubbery and rests on a warm, balsamic, and above all sweet base, where the use of real amber indeed comes into the realm of the probable, and which can also be found in a more austere variant in Miss Dior.
Actually not a fan of sweet scents, I can only explain the subjective attractiveness of Irisia alongside its high quality by the fact that here the cookie, candy, and other gourmand notes have been omitted.
For me, Irisia is one of the most beautiful scents that a woman can adorn herself with.
Creed, with such scents you may gladly do penance. You are forgiven.
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I personally had some unpleasant experiences with this brand during samples and know all too well what it's like when something just doesn't sit right inside: whether it's the brand image or something similar.
It takes a long time to take another step after that.
It seems like it was worth it for you; that's great!