Just something deep & sexy (I’m fighting the urge to put scare quotes around that, but it legitimately is) about this. Smells like the man who says, “I may be wearing a tuxedo now, but you can tell I split a cord of wood this afternoon.”

I had a little 5oz decant that I fell in love with. I got fizzy ginger, ginger, ginger from that, dark and spicy. Like drinking a ginger beer. Citrus comes out later, incense, patchouli, and spice all the way through. One thing I love to do, I don’t know how this will fly with some people, but, I like to layer some Creed Green Irish Tweed with something a little more “cologne-y” and let that rich Creed silk work its magic on something contrasting, and a spray or two of this with GIT works really well, keeps the class but adds a little spice.

When I used up that little sample I spring for a new bottle of this. Strangely, the bottle is slightly different. Not enough to complain, but the bottle has a definite “ozone” smell going on in the opening and even into the drydown that I never noticed in my little decant. I don’t know if it just needs to oxidize a bit or what. It took maybe 20-30 minutes to notice that familiar fizzy ginger, although, by god, that was yesterday and I can still smell it on me.

Having tried a lot of Creed samples lately, I think there’s almost something a little synthetic about this. But it’s really entirely tolerable, not bad at all and I don’t think someone who hadn’t just spent a stretch of days wearing some of the world’s best juice would notice.

I think you probably have to watch that you don’t overdo it but in the right dose I could see this as a signature scent and a consistent head-turner. Real good stuff. I do hope my new bottle mellows a tiny bit to match the decant and loses that weird ozone note, otherwise I’m going to have to make sure I put it on a little while before I’m planning on being around anybody. The performance seems to be super-long, though, I can’t believe I can still catch whiffs of yesterday’s application.