Créature Gilles Cantuel 1985 Eau de Parfum

Although this is classified as an Oriental Floral, the few notes available for this fragrance, Spice, Wood, Flowers, & Oriental Notes, are for sure incomplete. I will do my best to tease out what I think the individual ingredients may be.

Creature straddles different worlds, all of them beautiful.

A Bergamot top immediately flows into a spicy heart: Nutmeg & Cinnamon coupled with classic resins, likely Myrrh, Benzoin, and Galbanum (I get some nice green here, as I do in "Arsenal" by Cantuel). Also, there is a gourmand quality- something Vanillic and buttery. The heart seems to have some rich exotic thing, maybe Osmanthus, alongside Rose, Jasmine and maybe Lily of the Valley. Surprisingly not in the notes is Oakmoss, and a good deal of it, which gives this scent a 1980s chypre vibe. The wood is almost certainly high quality Sandal, full and creamy. For certain, this creature is a changeling!

* I can find no official notes on this perfume. Nigel Groom's iconic "The Perfume Handbook" lists only its launch date of 1987, and has a blank space where the category should be .It is also absent from the H&R guides.