Viking Creed 2017

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Ranked 98 in Men's Perfume

7.7 / 10 1455 Ratings

A popular perfume by Creed for men, released in 2017. The scent is spicy-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Fresh

Woody

Citrus

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Peppermint

Sicilian lemon

Calabrian bergamot

Absinth

Orange

Pink pepper

Heart Notes

Clove

Pimento

Bulgarian rose

Jasmine

Lavender

Orris butter

Base Notes

Indian sandalwood

Tonka bean

White musk

Cedarwood

Haitian vetiver

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Ratings

Scent

7.71455 Ratings

Longevity

7.51350 Ratings

Sillage

7.21342 Ratings

Bottle

7.81303 Ratings

Value for money

5.8740 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 09/08/2024.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Vasame

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Viking Cologne

No. 007

Old Spice Classic / Old Spice (Cologne) (1990) by Procter & Gamble

Old Spice Classic Cologne

Hakama

Statements

21 short views on the fragrance

Syzygy73 6 years ago

So, Vikings have gone from being axe-wielding manly men to metrosexuals doused in Dior Sauvage. Leif Ericsson must be crying into his mead.

6

ScentedSalon 7 years ago

9
Bottle 9
Scent

Beautiful fire-n-ice unisex scent: sweet, cold, uplifting, spicy, calming, warm, soothing. Lovely bottle. First thing I've liked from Creed.

5

BertolucciK 3 years ago

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Spicy, fresh and citrusy scent, slightly green/woody. Leaning for man but soft, light and calming. A peaceful Viking. One of the best Creed.

3

Hermesh 6 years ago

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Fresh citrusy fragrance, with classic, but also modern nuances. No reinvention, but well done: has naturally cool-mild appearance.

3

ScottMcArron 7 months ago

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Old Spice with high quality ingredients. Herbal atomic fireball candy. Invigorating. Inspiration to pillage coastal villages.

2

PedroCabral 2 years ago

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

It is a sophisticated perfume, with a very familiar and pleasant feeling. Cozy!

2

KingPin 5 years ago

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 2.5
Scent

Ewww, it smells like those blocks you have in urinals. Sharp and synthetic. Bad Creed, bad.

2

JoaoMartins 6 years ago

7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Too aromatic for me. Still a nice scent and classy for a more mature guy. Too pricey for what you will get from this perfume

2

Bryan35 24 days ago

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

A masterpiece. This puts 99% of the niche fragrances to shame. Creative, elegant, high quality, smells clean, fiery, icey, herbal, woody.

1

DJSaunter 2 months ago

7
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 7
Scent

Not a summer scent at all. Too spicy/aromatic fougère, I get an almost leather from the herbs and spices. Totally get the fancy Old Spice comments.

1

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54 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/13/2017

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Toreter
8 Reviews

Toreter

6

This is not Aventus, this is VIKING. Get over it.

After reading all this hate about Viking, I decided to give it a go and get a 50ml decant on Sharing Thread, if it has a Sauvage vibe can´t be really that awful.
The first sniff you get when you spray Viking its a citrus-pepper smell. It turns alittle sweet after that and you can start smelling that Sauvage kindathing. The fragrance then settles and lets a nice sweet, mild, Sauvage, barber cologne, bergamot, lemony mix come out.
It is a nice fragrance, that needs to settle to give its 100%.
It is not Aventus, it is VIKING. It is different, it is expensive, it is nice, it is pleasant. Needs a few wears to explore all details, but we know that nowadays we want everything here and now.If you are patient, you will like it.

08/27/2019

6
Bottle 2
Sillage 3
Longevity 2
Scent

Drakecito
14 Reviews

Drakecito

4

A bad joke.

My review is about a 100ml bottle, batch S9618B01

Honestly, I am somewhat perplexed ... I think we are facing one of the biggest teasing of modern perfumery.
Once again, the "fanboy" effect reaches unrepeatable limits.

Totally bland, ethereal fragrance, without body or charisma.

It is a classic, citrus / herbal scent that is clearly reminiscent of Silver Mountain Water, with that synthetic white musk background that the brand likes so much and the truth is that it does not have much more to tell. All that if the pink pepper, mint and I do not know what, is pure literature, but cheap. Eye, I do not say that they do not smell, in the drying if a clear note of pink pepper is appreciated, but come on, nothing special or striking.

Below other fragrances of the brand, such as Aventus or Silver Mountain Water or Virgin Island Water, to name a few, which are not holy of my devotion, but that seem better than this Viking.

The Creed hype is really amazing. I am surprised to read in the community of perfumery fans, how fragrances are defenestrated with 30 times more quality (and presence) than this, to then extol launches of this brand, but I have the feeling that any "thing" that Launch these gentlemen, it will be a reason for worship in any way, as long as it bears the "CREED" label.

I have come to see bottles of this Viking at € 500 and although for a few months, curiously they have already cut the price in half, it really seems like a real tease. Anyway, in these price reange, perfume quality feels very low, and I think that this is the big problem in Viking. All smells cheap.

The performance is simply unfortunate, with a totally ridiculous sillage and longevity, well .. well, like any everyday perfume.

On the other hand, I find it difficult for anyone to say that it smells bad, or that it is not pleasant, but I think that in this price range, this is totally insufficient.

To say that I see it indicated for daily and office / formal use.

Really, I have used perfumes of $ 20 or less, with more soul and substance than this Creed and for this, I think we will be better off with many current designer perfumes.

In short, insulting, without body or soul. A ghost of these times of perfumes that do not smell, great marketing campaigns, in the case of Creed, many times based on lies, and trendsetters that tell us what we should buy and what not.

11/24/2017

Bigsly
35 Reviews

Bigsly

3

What emotions reside in the word generic?

I can see some people calling this generic, but so what - if you like it that's what matters! It's got similarities to some scents I already own, even though I rarely wear this kind of scent. There's a strong "chemical wood," as I call it, mostly a sandalwood idea. This reminds me of "vintage" Born Wild for Men, though the wood note is even stronger in that one. What Born Wild does not have is the salty quality, and there's no mint in the top notes either (which seems to only last minutes in Viking anyway). Also, there are indistinct fruit, spice, and floral notes (I got a touch of sharpness, which I guess was the pepper). The next day I smelled it on the clothing I wore the previous day and it reminded me of In New York by VC&A, but I find INY to have a livelier composition. Viking has some sweetness, musk, spice, etc. to it, but the wood note is the star of the show, though that might be due to my sensitivity to those aroma chemicals. I think if I layered BWM with Red Sea by Micallef I'd get something similar to VIking, but I don't understand the claims that Viking is similar to Caron's L'Anarchiste, or that it has a strong cinnamon (or clove) element, or that it has an obvious barbershop/fougere quality. I certainly wouldn't call it a bad scent (at first I thought it was a unisex niche scent of a somewhat "chemical" quality because I sampled it blind), and it does come together nicely after a while (when I do get a touch of Pasha, as some have said), but it's just not the kind of scent I prefer to wear the overwhelming majority of the time (gourmands, orientals, leathers, tobacco, even "ouds" are my favorites), and it's not any kind of "far out" creation like one might get from Smell Bent. If it was in a bottle by Dior or Chanel, selling for $75 or so, I'd say just sample first and only buy it if you really like it, assuming you've got a lot of experience with fragrances. If you don't have much experience, you can buy a fragrance like In New York and get something that roughly does the same thing, and you'll also probably "smell unique" because that one doesn't seem to have caught on.

06/07/2021

1
Pricing 5
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Drseid
820 Reviews

Drseid

3

Channeling Costes...

Viking opens with soft bergamot laced with a hint of pink pepper before quickly transitioning to its heart. As the composition enters its early heart the perfume turns fiery hot spicy, as slightly sweet cinnamon and chili pepper combine into a "red hots candy" accord that becomes the focus, with thin dulled rose, vague mint, and dry sandalwood rising from the base in support. During the late dry-down the "red hots candy" accord recedes as the sandalwood remains, now in a more focal role as sharp woody vetiver joins it as co-star through the finish. Projection is good to very good, and longevity excellent at over 12 hours on skin.

Ah the wonderful house of Creed. While for most part I can ignore the house and not miss much, every once and a while when on vacation in Las Vegas I force myself to visit the Creed store to see if there is anything within the past few years I may have missed out on. This time I received the full court press sales pitch, including asking what my favorite three movies were (who cares?!?), expounding on the 4000+ year house history (oh brother), Cleopatra's Creed preferences (you knew her personally, eh?), only the finest ingredients used (sure, OK), and how Creed perfects formulation consistency by only going to the same select group of ingredient suppliers (this one almost made me cynically chuckle due to all the batch inconsistency arguments online - not that I believe any of it). Whatever, the sales experience was just as lengthy and ridiculous as the length of the Pinocchio's nose the sales person displayed after rambling through it. Sigh... Onward to the perfumes sampled. Most of what I sniffed last week had me wanting to escape the store as soon as possible, but a few of the more recent releases impressed enough for me to endure, and Viking was one, having me leave the store with a spray sample vial to try later on skin.

Viking actually grows on you over time. The perfume is a nice combination of fresh, and fiery hot spicy/woody. It isn't listed in the perfume notes, but cinnamon definitely plays a strong role in the perfume's heart, as does red chili pepper. The dull thin rose and vague natural mint used are more in subtle support to the primary spicy woody profile, giving the perfume that fresh, wearable dimension one expects from Creed. By the late dry-down the vetiver and sandalwood really take over and the result is quite pleasant. The perfume on the whole is actually appealing, but I can't help thinking that the key components driving most of its development have been done before... Oh yeah, the dulled rose infused red hots spicy/woody aspect can be found in Costes by Olivia Giacobetti released in 2004, for example. I own that one already but haven't worn it in years... I guess Viking's profile isn't as new or innovative as I hoped. The bottom line is the $495 per 100ml bottle Viking is a pleasant smelling perfume that channels key aspects of superior, far less expensive previous releases like Costes, and Padparadscha by Satellite, earning it a "good" to "very good" 3 to 3.5 stars out of 5 rating but an avoid recommendation as its superior predecessors can be had for far less (sans the sales pitch).

07/19/2023

1
Pricing 2
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 3
Scent

Mercer
78 Reviews

Mercer

2

Niche version of Old Spice Classic....this is for the 70+ crowd.

Creed has long credited a lot of the brand growth to the release and success of Aventus. If Aventus is the young mans scent from Creed, this is most certainly the old mans scent.

It's a real head scratcher to me that after the success of Aventus the next release for men is something that feels like it's specifically targeted to an audience that is men aged 70+.

This smells a lot like Old Spice Classic, it's the niche version of that. I thought Bois Du Portugal felt a bit mature and dated, this one blows that out of the water in terms of the mature dated vibe.

I have a hard time understanding any situation where I would grab this over something else from the house, certainly not over Himalaya, Green Irish Tweed, Milesime Imperial or literally anything else.

I don't know, maybe Creed has a horrible market research team and has no clue how to go after the right audience because this was not built for anyone under the age of 70.

As a side note, and I know this is personal preference, but this to me is by far the ugliest bottle Creed has ever released. A close second behind this is the horrific orange of Viking Cologne. The design just doesn't fit with the rest of the house...and neither does the scent.

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Performance

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On the positive side, I could smell this one and kept getting the scent of it off my of clothing for about 3 hours.

On the negative side....after 3 hours, it's pretty much gone for me, I have to put my nose right on clothes to smell it, and it's totally gone from skin.

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