http://www.walgreens.com/search/results.jsp?Ntt=creed
Well, I thought Creed was out of my price range. Maybe not.
Well, I thought Creed was out of my price range. Maybe not.
Creed at Walgreens? Yes, really.
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Are those prices any good, or can you get similar ones from online retailers?
Erik...I was checking out scentiments.com...their prices seemed really reasonable for Creed...unless you folks can recommend a better online retailer?
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I have usually seen Creed at nearly twice the price. Walgreens would not be selling fake juice... Would they? Anyway, I threw it in here to get opinions.
Save your money & get some LV for $10. It smells better than this stuff anyway.
They're selling for 50% of the price listed on Creed's website. Seems... odd?
Hence the term discount sellers 
StylinLA? Dullah? Can we get a ruling on this? 
That's about what Costco used to have Creed for, correct? Except I am not sure Costco reliably had GIT and SMW.
It seems as though Creed may be moving in the direction of very high priced limited edition scents (like Windsor and the private collection) and mainstream ones that although expensive are within reach of a large market when discounted.
I am not sure. I do not think that Costco was an authorized dealer. If Walgreen is, that would be a move.
^Right.
The fragrances which are based more in rare/uber-high quality natural ingredients will probly be relegated to limited editions, whereas the stuff that is predominantly synthetic (OV, OS, SMW, VIW, Aventus) is made cheaper and with more consistent, stable results.....allowing for mass production and subsequent mass distribution to discounters.
Now, Fragrances Like GIT still definitely use plenty of naturals, as I have smelled quite a variation even from within the same years of production, so there may be lots which were produced with more desirable harvests than other lots. The very term "Millesime", literally has a meaning like "Best of Harvest"...so what does this mean as far as retailers/discounters go?
It is my personal theory that Creed may distribute the lots of popular Millesimes produced with "less than optimal harvests", but which still have the strong backbone of synthetic construction behind them, to less prestigious markets and online discounters. And vice versa would send only the finest of production lots to the high-profile retailers such as Harrod's or Nieman Marcus.
It's legit.StylinLA? Dullah? Can we get a ruling on this?
But I haven't ordered from them.
I ordered some Creed flacons from Fragrancenet.com, and always got fresh batches from the previous year.....which is sometimes newer than what Nieman Marcus and Saks have. Not to mention Fragrancenet's great prices and near-constant %off promos.
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I'm going to have to pick up a few samples online from the Creed House. I've heard some amazing stuff from some of their fragrances but I've never had them close enough on a retail level to try them out.
Looks legit to me. I can't believe a company on the scale of Walgreens would monkey with selling any fake juice. Dullah may be onto something with the "less than optimal" Millesime harvests. Hard to know. Creed could totally be a savvy and finicky enough company to weed out less than great but still sellable batches of juice and sell it off outside their normal distibution system.
I find the Creeds can be finicky scents under any purchasing circumstances.
I am always baffled by their distribution system frankly. Here in Los Angeles, Nieman Marcus seems to be their primary authorized retailer. In other cities, they're frequently in Saks alone, or in Saks and Nieman.
But I just heard a new Bloomingdales out here is selling it.
There are a couple of rogue perfume stores out here that sell some Creeds, and my gut has always been that it's very old stock. I've been there a few times and get no impression new stock is ever coming in.
Lucky Scent's Scent Bar just recently started selling it, but only the big bottles sizes.
I find the Creeds can be finicky scents under any purchasing circumstances.
I am always baffled by their distribution system frankly. Here in Los Angeles, Nieman Marcus seems to be their primary authorized retailer. In other cities, they're frequently in Saks alone, or in Saks and Nieman.
But I just heard a new Bloomingdales out here is selling it.
There are a couple of rogue perfume stores out here that sell some Creeds, and my gut has always been that it's very old stock. I've been there a few times and get no impression new stock is ever coming in.
Lucky Scent's Scent Bar just recently started selling it, but only the big bottles sizes.
I couldn't say for certain, but I tend to agree - Walgreens is a really good store, and one of the things I've always liked about them is they sell stuff you can't find in CVS, Rite Aid, or Stop & Shop. They're also way too large a company to get caught hawking fake frags online.
Good point also. But I wonder, with all the fakes out there so effectively mimicking the real juice to those who can't tell Creed from Cool Water, would Olivier and co. benefit from sending their worst batches out into the fray? If it starts out as the poorest of the harvest, then sits in a Walgreens warehouse for a year or two before getting sold, the fakes may end up smelling better and muddling up the overall effect the real stuff has on public perception. On the other hand, if people catch on and these Creeds actually start moving, Walgreens will petition Creed to add more to their stock, and it'll become much harder for both companies to abide the bottom of the Millesime barrel.
Same here. In this case it's because they don't sell the stock they have, and therefore can't justify new stock. Amazing to me how ignorant these people can be about the very thing they're supposed to be knowledgeable in. You can't have this stuff sitting out in broad daylight for years on end people! Sell it or use it yourself, but don't let it go to rot
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I get what you're saying. Maybe I'm putting myself into the head of a perfectionist perfumer whose idea of "not highest quality" is still very,very good. OP is a good example of someone who might now try Creed and if he's never owned a bottle, has no reference point.
Too, maybe it's just older stock that Creed knows some of us finicky types will eschew. A lot of Basenoters are fanatical about the production dates etched on the bottles. I tend to think if stored well and avoiding temperature extremes, it last a long time. My Vetiver has gotten better after about 7 years and it's not really stored in the most ideal circumstances (No A/C here and it does get fairly hot sometimes).
(Side Q for Dullah: I saw thread in which a poster had a Creed rep tell him that the juice is not exposed to oxygen until the first sprays have been shot through the atomizer. Any thoughts on that?)
Probably over thinking this, but their distribution techniques have always baffled me.
In the end, we're all just guessing.
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gasp! I heard all kinds of good things about creed, but is walgreen's prices is a "discount" its above my league
LMMFAO. As someone who has smelled the chinese fakes, Olivier couldn't possibly make something that bad, even if he consciously tried to make something horrid.
Right, even if Olivier isn't satisfied with any particular batch of Violet Leaves any given year, they're still higher quality batches than what Chanel would use in the high-end boutique scents. And the bootleggers aren't even thinking of using aything natural, matter of fact hey're using low-end chemicals, many of which are probably banned and toxic. If you smelled the counterfeit SMW & OV I've smelled in comparison to a real batch, you'd understand fully.
1/2 nonsense, unless they vacuum seal every bottle, which I doubt. Even then, the amount of oxidative damage generated by the small amount of oxygen that enters upon each spray, ceases completely once the oxygen reacts with something. For instance, all oxidative reactions are likely exhausted a short time after the oxygen enters the enclosed bottle, and even then, it only reacts with a very small portion of the juice, when you think of how minute the surface area of those bubbles is, and then from there it only reacts for a short time with the fluid surface.
They likely have exclusive distribution contracts with Nieman/Bergdorf/etc in the USa, and Harrod's etc in the Uk, and so on. In these contracts are conditions stating in no uncertain terms limitations on Creed's legal ability to sell wholesale lots of their products to discounters.....so........they get around these agreements.....via the slow boat to Savannah, GA....
.....after certain lots are sold to Gulf countries, but never leave the dock, the containers get loaded right onto another slowboat, and make the long trip to Savannah, where they are distributed "unofficially" to grey-market discounters, many of whom are based in the USA. Everyone makes money, and even if Nieman marcus/Harrod's wanted to take Legal action if their sales of CREED slipped enough (which isn't close to happening as CREED is their #1 selling fragrance brand at Nieman marcus), the ruling would be very uncertain and unlikely to favor them as the burdon of proof would be exhausting and expensive to conjure. Not to mention the physical enforcement of any such ruling would be nearly impossible given the sheer volume of channels involved. I've been briefed by someone who worked this logistical stream for a living, and it's ridiculous how much perfume is imported from France to the Gulf.....CREED is no exception. thank God for that.
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Another befuddling decision by Creed. I am not saying there is anything wrong with selling at Walmart. But it doesn't exactly mesh with the company's storied (as they tell it) history. From perfumer to royalty to perfumer to the masses, it dilutes the brand.
Petty Theft =/= Mass Murder.
