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I recently got my first bottle of Aventus straight from the official Creed Website. Batch F002426, one of the new ones and I would say a pretty good one. And so far I'm quite happy with the purchase.

Oh and also the packaging and the bottle feel more luxorious and regal to me than all my other perfumes. Even though the packaging material is flimsy and kinda weak. But man the bottle and atomizer are awesome.

Anyway back to the perfume. I really like the smell. It's fresh, sophisticated, layered, smells like quality and has aura. It's kind of a dumb reach but in a very classy, luxurious way.

I love that it's kind of a freshy, a bit fougere, bit blue, but has some depth and heft to it because of the Birch / smokey base. A fresh, a bit fruity and citrusy, kinda mossy / ambergris masterpiece. For me it's layered and complex especially for such a scent profile. And of course the famous pineapple note is truly amazing. All in all a masterpiece, a very successful scent and I love it.

Performance wise my batch is quite alright (if you spray enough) and I am pretty sure it'll get better with maceration.

I used like 10 sprays (yeah maybe a lot considering the excellent creed atomizers which spray like a hose) and had very good projection for maybe like 1-2 hours. It probably became an intimate / skin scent 1-2 hours after that and then it remained a lingering skin scent. Right now around 10 hours later it's still a noticable skin scent on my clothes (I always spray on clothes) which is good enough for me and an average performance in my book. Again as I said I'm pretty sure that'll get still a bit better after some months and years of maceration. All in all I'm okay with the performance.

Regarding the dupes I usually really don't like them and even more so don't respect them.

Club de Nuit Intense Man Limited Edition was okay smell wise after the harsh opening and probably in the air it's not much of a difference and maybe it even gets more compliments because it might have stronger performance. But yeah it's really not the real deal and cannot compare quality or smell wise up close. If that's important to you is up to you. For me it is as I love the quality and the impeccable artistic craftsmanship and mastery of the originals.

Hacivat probably Aventus inspired but quite different actually and also very good in it's own right. But for me not the same DNA as Aventus.

Blockade is a bit like a mockery of the genius of Aventus to me. Yeah it's smells good, it has performance. Yeah it's not a clone but somehow feels like a copy cat. It's kinda trying hard to be cool, trying hard to please, trying hard to chase a hype which is a bit pathetic. Aventus defined, impacted, changed. And Blockade just follows, trying to be edgy and cool and soon enough will be completely forgotten, like all fads.

Cedrat Boise and Intense Cedrat Boise I can respect as they are quite intriguing and good perfumes which kinda do their own thing (if still heavily Aventus inspired). But ultimately they have less quality, they are less of a masterpiece.

Explorer and Eros Energy know how to please, especially for their price. And for what they are, being designer mass pleasing, mass produced products, they are very good. But ultimately they are not Aventus, not at all.

Aventus Cologne and Absolu Aventus are good. But the Mandarine Orange of the cologne did not fit very well into the composition for me, making it also a less inspired copy of the original masterpiece. The absolu is half kind of a different beast altogether and half kind of a shameful imitation of Sauvage Elixir. It is quite an amazing perfume to be sure, but also not at all on the same level of genius craftsmanship and mastery as the original.

So Aventus stays the royal, regal, immortal and ancient mountain of a GOAT, the time tested and still incredibly relevant masterpiece it always was, in a sea of more or less forgettable, faceless and characterless imitations which always strife, but never succeed.

God bless.

For me it's the best fresh summer Citrus Fragrance I know and this with a good margin.

But that's only smell wise. Sadly the performance of my bottle is also quite bad. And I'm totally aware that it is a scent where you go noseblind super fast, mainly because of the HEAVY ambroxan (but super good quality so I like it). And still I'd say the performance of my bottle right now is quite poor.

I just received my 125 ml bottle directly from Bulgari, I even paid full retail (insane I know) so I know it's original and authentic.

So yeah the scent is amazing. So invigorating, exciting, very sexy, addicting but also somehow a bit relaxing because it reminds me of very luxurious holiday vibes, like super rich care free vacation.

As many say yes the scent profile is simple or I'd say straight forward. But for me it has some hidden complexity which makes it so alluring and addicting and very sexy.

If you smell past the kinda sweet grapefruit, bit spicy ginger and intoxicating ambrox you'll find some other intricate and complex story. But that's really trying hard, on the surface it is quite simple.

So yeah as most say, an amazing, beautiful, sexy, intoxicating summer scent with poor projection and longevity. Still my favorite summer scent right now.

I really hope that my bottle just has to macerate a bit and then it'll become beast mode like some reviewers suggest. If so, I'll update here.

Comparison to the dupes:
I usually don't bother with dupes as all the dupes so far did really disappoint. Mostly smelling way worse quality and usually missing the artistic genius of the original.

So I never smelled the cheapies or Vibrato . But I smelled Burlington 1819 and "Ginger | Widian / AJ Arabia".

Burlington 1819 is quite different to my nose. It's way more complex with way more noticeable accords. But the drydown is quite similar to Tygar. All in all I much prefer Tygar being more alluring, sexy and a bit dangerous smelling. With Burlington being way more niche, complex and probably a bit higher quality.

Widian Ginger is very close to Tygar to my nose. Maybe like 90 % or even a bit more. It's maybe a tiny bit more floral and my sample had a bit better performance than my Tygar bottle (hopefully not anymore after maceration). Still I preferred the original but maybe just because I usually do and have a bias. So Widian Ginger might objectively be the better deal but yeah I love the bottle, the prestige and the idea of owning the original.

God bless.

I have God of Fire and Porthole on both my arms right now. And I much prefer God of Fire.

Not because Porthole is a bad perfume, but because GOF is waaay more my style. But keep in mind I've got an official tester from ordering the new bottle / batch. So maybe it changed from the original batch which I never smelled.

Let me explain. Porthole for me is very gourmand. It reminds me a lot of the Campino Strawberry and Cream Bonbons (sweets) which were quite popular in Germany when I was a kid. I mean the comparison is not exact as porthole is more in the direction of Mango or Passion Fruit instead of strawberry I guess. But still very much so, as for me it smells like a lactonic / creamy accord is muting the juiciness and freshness of the fruits by a lot.

So for me porthole is mainly a very gourmand fruity hard candy with minimal freshness drying down to something similar as Pacific Chill. And I would definitely prefer Pacific Chill over Porthole for being more fresh, lively, less lactonic and less gourmand.

Now why do I prefer God of Fire?

Is it an objectively better smell? Is it higher quality? Does it smell more natural? No to all of these points (I'd say it's mostly similar, maybe objectively Porthole even smells better).

But God of Fire just has this attitude. This dangerous, poisonous, intriguing, sexy undertone which transforms a pleasant sweet mango / strawberry scent into a very attractive juxtaposition of tropical vacay good feel vibes and a sexy unknown dangerous shadow lurking behind each palmtree. Probably from the oud and nagarmotha. This is also a speciality of Stéphane Humbert Lucas Perfumes from my point of view as most I tested have a dangerous, maybe even evil, but still very sexy undertone.

Describing it like that reminds me a bit of the official music video of the song "Hunnybee" by unknown mortal orchestra (check it out) or of the video game "dead island" depicting a zombie apocalypse on an tropical island paradise. A looming danger overshadowing a beautiful jungle paradise vacation destination. But in sexy.

Maybe in the way women get off of vampires or werewolves or crazy abusive rich guys.

So you want to smell like an innocent fruity tropical Bonbon (hard candy) or like a tropical fruity sexy vampire? You decide.

God bless.

The pre 2025 formulation. Simply one of the very best, even compared to much more expansive niche.

Sophisticated, complex yet simple, addicting, intoxicating, yet very explicit in its subtelty. Smells high quality and luxorious, especialy for its price. Maybe one of the best deals in the world of perfumery. You get a straight up masterpiece for the money of a mere designer.

How lucky I feel having gotten one of the last pre 2025 bottles as I believe they reformulated it a little bit, making it just a bit less complex, dumped it down a tiny notch just enough for it to lose its whispering treasure. What a horrible crime.

And as Dior Homme Parfum (2014) is just as much of an absolute masterpiece, for my personal taste the intense is enough. The intense is all I need in the space of iris perfection. The parfum is stellar, more complex, more deep, richer and probably one of the very best of rose perfumes, but for me it is just too much of it. Thus, I prefer the simpler, straighter to the point flowery genius of the intense.

François Demachy I solute you and your immense genius. You defined a generation of perfumery. What a tragic letting you go. May another virtuoso take your place. May there be another day.

God bless.

So I wore it now a couple of times and I'm absolutely in love.

It's quite similar to the edp but less fresh, a bit less spicy but smoother, richer, deeper. I actually like it quite a bit more compared to the edp which is already excellent.

Performance is definitely better with the Parfum, especially longevity and sillage. The projection might be a bit less in the first hour or so and afterwards the edp is already almost gone anyway.

Compared to Carved Oud Extrait de Parfum and Kredo I like the Oud Wood Parfum way better.

The Carved oud has a weird "fresher" note in it which I don't like and for me it's actually not that similar to the Oud Wood DNA.

Kredo is quite close to the DNA in my opinion but it has an quite animalic and dirty oud which completely changes the appeal for me. The Oud Wood DNA shines especially because of the very clean, a bit medicinal smelling oud, which gives this composition it's extremely sophisticated and refined appeal. I believe the Oud Wood Parfum contains quite high quality clean smelling real oud. Thus, Kredo with its lower quality animalic oud is not on the same level in my opinion, although the DNA is quite close.

The only other contender I did no test is Oud Noir Intense. So i am not sure if it's better, but I heard its also not so close to the OG DNA and contains also a bit more animalic oud.

All in all I love the Parfum Version and I think it's by far the best iteration of this DNA currently on the market.

Of course the retail price is outrages and the performance is a bit disappointing for the price point. But if you can get it for 200 - 250 € I think it's absolutely worth it if you love the DNA.

For me it's a masterpiece and one of the best scents I currently know.

Update: Today I wore 6 sprays (which isn't so much as the atomizer is not really good and sprays quite a small amount) on my clothes (I never do on skin) and I still can smell it quite strongly on my clothes after around 10 hours and it had quite a bit of projection up until around 7 hours. So I'm actually quite alright with the performance. Now the only issue left is the high price and the cool looking but kinda plastiky cheap bottle with quite a bad atomizer.