Aventus Creed 2010

You can personally think of Aventus what you want, after all, everything is a matter of taste, but globally Aventus is a masterpiece.

When Paul Parquet created Fougère Royal in 1882, he didn't just create a fragrance, he created a fragrance chord that became the beginning of a genre - the genre of fougère fragrances. The interplay of lavender, geranium, oakmoss and coumarin was so striking that it became the basis of fougère fragrances, an entire fragrance genre. All classic fougère fragrances use this accord (at least 3 notes). Depending on the intensity of the individual components and the other components of the fragrance creation, the scent varies. So today we find different Fougére fragrances: sometimes very classic, sometimes with a stronger lavender note, sometimes more modern with less geranium, sometimes powerful as for example in the 80s with a lot of oak moss and also as Oriental i.e. oriental Fougère. Paul Parquet have thus accomplished a masterpiece in 1882, a fragrance that was so concise that it became its own fragrance genre.

Now what does this have to do with Aventus? In my opinion, Creed has also succeeded in this. Creed has created with Aventus a fragrance that contains not only one, no equal to two concise chords. Oh what am I talking (or writing) about, a whole cadence! The opening chord, the fruitiness a mix of pineapple, apple and citrus notes and the base with smoky notes (in my opinion birch (vlt. Birch tar) and ambroxan (I do not think that real ambergris is included)).

Now, similar to the fougère fragrance, there are all sorts of different expressions of Aventus. Many may claim that its copies.

Let me tell you, Creed Aventus can not be copied!
How am I so sure of that?
Simple, even Creed can't manage to copy Aventus.

Each version is different, similar to the Fougère fragrance - here no one comes to the idea to claim it's all copies of Fougère Royal. So we have Aventus sometimes more fruity, sometimes smoky, sometimes simpler, sometimes with pungent top note, sometimes without pineapple but with bergamot and less complex (which we call Explorer and there you have to say, this Aventus is a stroke of genius, because he breaks up the first chord and exchanges a note and simplifies the rest of the cadence. You could argue it's the pop version of a classical piece) and we have some that, much like the oriental fougère scents, don't show the kinship so obviously - Cedrat Boise, for example. Cedrat Boise is described as an aventus and it is remotely in that genre, it does use a different fruit chord however that maintains the cadence (fruit on a smoky base).

So ultimately, Creed has created with Aventus from my point of view something that is so distinctive that whoever uses only a part of the DNA, the cadence, always creates an Aventus - and the best example of this is Creed itself, because even at Creed there is not the Aventus there is so to speak the fragrance family Aventus. A classic - and a good one at that