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In my 2 years of parfumo activity, I have learned a lot about fragrances and tested many things

At first you think this fragrance is the holy grail. Everyone wants it, it's coveted and expensive.
That's what I thought at first too.

But in the end it is not about having something in his collection for others,
but to find his own style and show individuality.
After all, you don't have to chase every trend, not even with fragrances.

Here they tried to create a spicy green fragrance at the end of the 90s with modern elements for the new millennium
These elements are flowers and leather.

If you've had a taste of the real vintage classic world of the 80s, this Envy looks relatively normal
He's okay, but he's not the greatest scent hit


For me his composition unfortunately does not work:

The flowers, especially the rose, mixed with leather are alarming in my nose
Somehow I don't like the green Envy that much, it has something bitter-sweet-acidic that doesn't harmonize very well with or even through the green spice parts.

It is slightly sweet, but above all strongly floral and leathery. That doesn't go together very well in my nose. Vanilla is very subtle in the background. A very mature, strong, loud fragrance for men from 40-50+ one might think. A slight old baking is not to be denied.

To wear this fragrance at the age of 20 to 30 years would seem ridiculous and inappropriate to me, just to follow a trend.

In conclusion, it is definitely not worth 400€ / 100ml.

... what vintage icon I'm dealing with here.

1 year ago at the flea market, I rummaged through a box of miniatures including OVPs.
Hmm, flashy vintage cardboard, mini still full. I'll take it with me. :-)

Fortunately, I hadn't opened it yet either.

Now I know what we're dealing with.

Same league as Aigner's Superfragrance for Men or Mark Cross Edt.

I would like to say a few words about this controversial scent.

It's my first Creed fragrance, Batch 2011.
I find it to be fruity, spicy, woody, orientally sweet. But it's also heavy.
He has quite development and does not remain monotonous.

It starts with a ripe sweet, very tasty orange paired with the pungency of ginger.
The fruity sweetness stands here in the foreground.
So far not bad.

Now the delusion begins.
In the middle part I can agree with Meggi, the lavender in this form strongly gives the impression of "Joop Nightflight".
Peppermint and spices quickly join in.
Central component seems to be the juniper berry, which is not disturbing at all but present.
The typical beery-smoky Creed DNA is revealed.
Has the scent been changed? It is no longer present in the current pyramid.

Over time, the fragrance becomes softer,
the berry gives way more to the woods, vanilla and amber.
Delusion of senses Part II begins:
In fact, after 1-2 hours you can already see nuances of Joop Homme.
But: by far not as killing and penetrating as the pink nervtöter.
Rather a subtle, improved, finer version for gentlemen.

I don't know Montblanc Individually, but I can imagine that it doesn't come close to the Creed in terms of quality.

In summary, no bad incense at all with playing, alternate facets that has similarities after DryDown to Joop Homme.

That one tears up the smell and evaluates badly I cannot understand.

I must confess in his lifetime, the scent completely passed me by.
Through parfumo I became aware of him and ordered a small filling of the already high-priced scent.
Thus 4€/ ml are quite estimated.

At auction houses it reached used almost 500€ for 50ml. Insanity!

If you consider that it is a limited mainstream fragrance that cost 55 Euro. It's not Gucci Envy or anything like that.

At this point a big thank you to the nice parfumo who left me his bottle fair !

The scent:
It's an Eau de Toilette Intense, and he keeps it that way. 7-8 hours loosely on the skin. 10-12+ on the clothes.
It is a cuddly, creamy warm autumn/winter scent which is especially suitable for going out or for nice occasions like a date or candlelight dinner
He plays the charmer and he can do that well.
In any case he enchanted my nose very much in winter.

The scent itself smells like a creamy vanilla shake, the whipped cream almost flies around you. Bourbon vanilla, not simple. It's not in the pyramid, though. Either it is an ingenious sensory delusion by the other fragrances or it is simply not called.
Wormwood, leather and oud (not very present at all) do the rest and give the fragrance a sophisticated complexity.

I could rave about this smell for a very long time.
There is also nothing comparable, also no Dupe.

Who has a bottle of this fragrance: keep it well, it is worth it.

The only place where you won't notice this scent, I can imagine, is on a spice bazaar.
Otherwise, however, pretty much everywhere, whether you like it or not.
It is loud, opulent, conspicuous and full of resinous roses.

It starts with a resinous peppery pear and quickly turns into a strong, synthetically spicy sweet rose fragrance.
It finally remains even with a peppery (woody) resinous-spicy sweet rose (overload) fragrance.
Yes, the resin plays an important role in the whole process and is clearly present.
I'm not a fan of rose scents anyway, but here it is too much of a good thing.
Where the rose is usually paired with oud, this time it enters the relationship with resinous pepper.

Buy?
A clear no.

I mean,who wants to smell like resinous sweetly glued roses?