EspritDeGout

It all started about 5 years ago when I discovered my love for perfume and soon found myself in the only store in town that stocked Creed fragrances
Some of the bottles made a high-quality impression on me, including the 75 ml Green Irish Tweed (which I had already heard of having a similarity to Cool Water). So I decided to be especially critical of this one, as I had the equivalent Davidoff on the shelf at home and knew it well. Would there really be people who would buy a perfume that smells the same and costs ten times as much?
Well, I was thrilled by the amount of the first spray and a scent spread in my nose, which to my great astonishment immediately reminded me in no way of Davidoff. I had never before in my life taken such a natural smell out of a bottle. Where Davodoff seemed to me symbolic like the sea, Creed was a pond in the middle of a forest. Already in the top note I heard a hint of amber, sandalwood and forest-like freshness, which got better and better in the drydown - unfortunately I didn't have enough money to spend it "only on one perfume" at that time...so I had a 2,5 ml sample bottle filled and the smell lifted my mood every single time I smelled it.

Other scents of the house have caught my attention over the years, such as Silver Mountain Water (which is an incredibly charismatic character scent) or Original Vetiver (sometimes the most distinctive I have ever been able to smell).
But GIT and the already empty sample never let me go. So it happened that I bought this Jar a bottle in the now newly designed 100 ml format. It came by mail, because this year it was not very appropriate to jump among the crowds and go shopping...

Now I am writing this comment because I am surrounded by a very strange feeling. I claim 100% that the 2020 bottle of Green Irish Tweed is no longer the same as the 75 ml a few years ago. This natural, woody and green kind I had fallen in love with is no longer there. It now looks more like fresh cool water to me than the naturally herbaceous GIT of a few years ago. I have it in front of me right now and also the empty but still slightly scented old sample and it is almost two different scents. The then so dominant and flattering amber now gives way to the all-covering violet and a never-ending cool freshness, which I honestly don't like.

My 2020 flat is not a fake, because I ordered it from the same store where I personally buy from.
I would love to know if anyone has had a similar experience, or if my nose is deceiving me? Did Creed also launch a redesigned version of the fragrance with the redesigned bottles?

I wouldn't be surprised, because sometimes only change seems to be a constant part of living.

On a spring day like this,
once again in town,
don't let me spoil the mood,
and see what Douglas has for me.

Acqua di Parma was on the program,
appeared immediately & was on site,
i saw it next door,
the newest baby from Tom Ford.

Luxurious - noir in matt,
pathetic simple - aesthetically rich.
Exterior - clear - imposing,
in the interior also a guarantor.

Bad boy this Ford,
Euthanasia becomes suicide,
From his self-proclaimed home,
he kicks my favorites out.

The stuff is addiction - pure & familiar,
fluffy warm & heavy dirty.
time passes & nobody looks,
i could hide my goose bumps...

Modern class!