saw someone posted on this in another thread, coincides with my experience.
picked up some creed original vetiver over the weekend. i blame snoopyace for making a hell of a mix with it. the saleslady at the store was very nice and knowledgeable about fragrances. we get to discussing my tastes and she recommends a new creed: aventus.
i’ll spare you the details that you can find with a simple web search. go check it out too; it apparently has an extravagant design plan (components, etc).
echoing the question from the original thread: has anyone tried this yet? it’s a US-first release, uncommon for creed, that should be coming out late july / early aug. i walked away with a tester of it and also sprayed some on my hand for the road.
it’s a very smooth fragrance. thing like vetiver are kinda mossy and organic, “aqua” colognes have their own characteristics, citrus colognes are tangy, etc.
this is smooth, like a glass table. good top notes of bergamot. i’m not too familiar with blackcurrant so i can’t say much on that. dries down into a leathery patchouli. base note is musky and warm.
i think this fragrance defines the position and hard work of a man. i could see a 20something year old guy pair it up with a suit on his first day of work at a big corporation, and it would also feel right at home on an older man enjoying dinner at a nice restaurant.
when i wear this i get lots of status hits, even going phero naked. if i pair it with a314 it is the utmost definition of status. if i layer it with creed’s silver mountain water, it becomes a social status feel. if i layer it with original vetiver, it is almost always highly sexually charged.
Kind of a funny story… I got a decant of Aventus from The Perfumed Court, and I really liked it. Only problem is that I laid it on my computer desk and didn’t fully plug the vial with the stopper. A little bit leaked out. Now, at the time, I was playing the computer game Mafia 2 on and off and could smell Aventus pretty strongly at the time from the drippage.
End result? Aventus will forever remind me of the Mafia.
I actually used Aventus the other day as a cover for 2 drops A314. I really do believe that the cover scent you use on pheros can influence the direction that the particular phero you are using, takes.
On the same 2 drops of A314 (in my experience), covering with:
Eau Sauvage: A very successful businessman. Even though I know nothing much about business, I feel like a company CEO. Classic gentleman.
Dior Homme: A younger version of the above. Like some dot.com billionaire. If you remember a film called Exit Wounds (with Steven Seagal), there was a young black hyper rich dot.com billionaire as one of the main characters. You feel a little like this guy.
Tiffany for Men: I feel like royalty. Literally. Like someone of the higher classes.
Aventus: Like the desert prince - “a mysterious prince of the desert, gorgeous and powerful, invisible and ever-present, he gives riches with his generous hand and blessed are those who meet him”
the saleslady at the store was very nice and knowledgeable about fragrances. we get to discussing my tastes and she recommends a new creed: aventus.