08/21/2019
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DerDefcon
The medal has two sides
Let's make it short.
If I would meet someone in everyday life who wears this fragrance and I would pass it by, I would immediately bet on Creed's bestseller without thinking much about it.
Well, then you've done everything right in the Al Haramain fragrance house, you might think, but it's always a matter of looking at the two sides of the coin, i.e. both the person who perceives the scent of someone, and this someone who wears the water, so that he has to get along with it longer, not just a fleeting olfactory encounter.
I wear this fragrance and know Creeds Original - and I know that - so the prelude is almost confusingly similar and differences can only be heard in the concentrated sniffing. The combination of lemon and bergamot does a good job and imitates Creed's pineapple note very well. Only at the second smell one notices that the lemon plays the supporting role here and that something is still missing up to the pineapple.
With the onset of the heart note, woody notes are finally added, which together with the dominant lemon try to imitate the strong smokiness of the Aventus, at least that of the earlier versions. However, it should remain with the experiment, because that smokiness is present, but unfortunately not in this transparent and natural way, which is precisely what makes the uniqueness of the great model so unique. The smokiness is a bit too synthetic, so that the initial euphoria to have found a cheap clone of the bestseller we all know disappears quite quickly. The synthetic smokiness of the nose destroys the initial feeling of freshness, making the whole composition too exhausting for my nose over time.
So let's state that this scent will please a passing person in a fleeting way, just as the expensive original almost everyone knows how to please and that independent of the fact that the scent that can be bought in the three-digit Eurone range also appeals to me, but does not tear me from my stool. The difference between the original and the clone is almost impossible to smell spontaneously and fleetingly, but the wearer, who wears the latter on his neck for several hours and hears it regularly, feels disturbed by the synthetic citrus smoke.
If I would meet someone in everyday life who wears this fragrance and I would pass it by, I would immediately bet on Creed's bestseller without thinking much about it.
Well, then you've done everything right in the Al Haramain fragrance house, you might think, but it's always a matter of looking at the two sides of the coin, i.e. both the person who perceives the scent of someone, and this someone who wears the water, so that he has to get along with it longer, not just a fleeting olfactory encounter.
I wear this fragrance and know Creeds Original - and I know that - so the prelude is almost confusingly similar and differences can only be heard in the concentrated sniffing. The combination of lemon and bergamot does a good job and imitates Creed's pineapple note very well. Only at the second smell one notices that the lemon plays the supporting role here and that something is still missing up to the pineapple.
With the onset of the heart note, woody notes are finally added, which together with the dominant lemon try to imitate the strong smokiness of the Aventus, at least that of the earlier versions. However, it should remain with the experiment, because that smokiness is present, but unfortunately not in this transparent and natural way, which is precisely what makes the uniqueness of the great model so unique. The smokiness is a bit too synthetic, so that the initial euphoria to have found a cheap clone of the bestseller we all know disappears quite quickly. The synthetic smokiness of the nose destroys the initial feeling of freshness, making the whole composition too exhausting for my nose over time.
So let's state that this scent will please a passing person in a fleeting way, just as the expensive original almost everyone knows how to please and that independent of the fact that the scent that can be bought in the three-digit Eurone range also appeals to me, but does not tear me from my stool. The difference between the original and the clone is almost impossible to smell spontaneously and fleetingly, but the wearer, who wears the latter on his neck for several hours and hears it regularly, feels disturbed by the synthetic citrus smoke.
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