Green Irish Tweed Longevity

[Cuttingboard]

I've been looking for a nice summer scent and was very reluctant to give GIT a try because: a) it was popular; and b) it had the name "tweed" in it. I received my sample of GIT Saturday and I love the scent, unfortunately, the longevity is a lot less than desired. I put a good 3 swipes on each wrist and 2 more on each side of my neck and my breast bone at 7 am this morning and I could no longer smell it at 10 am. Is this normal with GIT?

I now see what all of you guys were talking about and I will never question your wisdom again!!

 

[markb]

No, that's not normal... For me anyway.. If I wear GIT, I put it on at around 7:30am and can still smell it well into the evening.

 

[Cuttingboard]

No, that's not normal... For me anyway.. If I wear GIT, I put it on at around 7:30am and can still smell it well into the evening.

Could I have an old sample? I bought it from beauty encounter.

 

[markb]

Could I have an old sample? I bought it from beauty encounter.

That could be possible.

 

[mr_economy]

Back when decants were still easily available through the Basenotes forums, I purchased a few Creed decants. Loved the GIT, but I had the exact same longevity issues as you - 3 hours after application I could not smell a thing, and neither could a friend I had give me a sniff.

I had the same issue with Millesime Imperial, but not with the heavier Creed scents. So something about their light scents does not get along well with my skin chemistry.

 

[Cuttingboard]

Yeah, I really like GIT, I wonder if its more effective to apply via spray, rather than finger tips?

 

[Archerfire]

I absolutely love GIT. In my opinion, of all the Creed frags I've tried, it's easily the best.

I work with over 30 women. I wear quite a few different frags (not all at the same time) and it is one of a few that the ladies immediately recognize and remember the name of.

It's a definite favorite and lasts a good long time on my skin. It lasts well into the late afternoon, early evening. Granted it is more mellow and close to the skin, but it is still there.

 

[The Knize]

Over time I think I have read of various folks having longetivity problems with GIT--where there was no issue of freshness or authenticity of the juice itself.

To the best of my recollection, GIT has about a moderate tenacity for me. No complaints, really, but surely no records being set. Creed in general does not have huge tenacity for me. 3 hours seems very short to have absolutely nothing left. Are you sure you have not just gotten accliminented to the scent. If you wet, slightly, the spot where you applied the scent does it re-activiate, or is it truly completely gone.

I think one can apply Creed a bit more heavily than many scents without driving folks away.

 

[Cuttingboard]

Over time I think I have read of various folks having longetivity problems with GIT--where there was no issue of freshness or authenticity of the juice itself.

To the best of my recollection, GIT has about a moderate tenacity for me. No complaints, really, but surely no records being set. Creed in general does not have huge tenacity for me. 3 hours seems very short to have absolutely nothing left. Are you sure you have not just gotten accliminented to the scent. If you wet, slightly, the spot where you applied the scent does it re-activiate, or is it truly completely gone.

I think one can apply Creed a bit more heavily than many scents without driving folks away.

Interesting, because my wife just came home from work and gave me a hug and asked what I was wearing because she like it a lot? I told her Green Irish Tweed and she said great, her favorite color is green and she's Irish. Something I thought was interesting was that she smelled my neck and then my wrist and said they smelled different.

 

[StylinLA]

I really like a lot of the Creeds, but from all my experience and much of what I read, they are horribly finicky on the whole longevity thing. I also think they tend to vary from batch to batch.

I also think they don't tend to age well. I just pitched a bottle of BdP that had lost all but the top notes. In fairness to Creed, I had it about 8 years and it was stored with a fair amount of temp variation.

I'm probably not helping here Cutttingboard...

I've had two different bottle of GIT and I'd put longevity at better than average. Usually 7-8 hours. Usually lasts on me through a day at work.
But it's pretty light at the end.

Also, I do think spray is better than the rub on. I don't have a sceintific answer for why, but it's always been my experience.

 

[Featherweight]

I've done a lot of reading on Creed and their methods of manufacturing using all natural ingredients (or mostly natural anyway), and the bottom line is that their high standards come with a built-in longevity price. GIT is vaguely similar to Cool Water, but unlike CW doesn't really have all that calone and synthetic stuff - the very stuff that tends to last longer on skin. Instead there's actual essentials of violet, sandalwood, etc.

So again, the bad news is if you want it to last longer on skin, apply more and run through the bottle faster.

But the good news is that several strategically placed spritzes on your shirt should result in better longevity and decent projection, at least doubling what happens on skin in this regard.

I have the same issue with Original Vetiver, and find that the shirt method gets much better longevity and, most importantly, compliments

 

[petr]

GIT is long lasting.

Ask someone else to give you a sniff in the afternoon. I bet they'll come up positive.

 

[Obsessed]

Ask someone else to give you a sniff in the afternoon. I bet they'll come up positive.

Hmmm. Not exactly sure where to gowith that one.

 

[Chuck Norris]

The only experience i've had with it was from a squirt at the store, and i ended up deciding against it partially because of it's potency and strong stamina. Creed in general i've found to be very concentrated frags. Of course that doesn't nec mean they will last long. That depends on the ingredients

 

[honed]

Over time I think I have read of various folks having longetivity problems with GIT--where there was no issue of freshness or authenticity of the juice itself.

To the best of my recollection, GIT has about a moderate tenacity for me. No complaints, really, but surely no records being set. Creed in general does not have huge tenacity for me. 3 hours seems very short to have absolutely nothing left. Are you sure you have not just gotten accliminented to the scent. If you wet, slightly, the spot where you applied the scent does it re-activiate, or is it truly completely gone.

I think one can apply Creed a bit more heavily than many scents without driving folks away.

What the fine gentleman above said

 

[SubmarinerLV]

Whilst there is a good deal of variation between Creeds of different batches, another thing that may be affecting your longevity is that samples seem to have less longevity than the product from the bottle. This has been my experience at least with Creed samples vs the fragrance I then went on to purchase, just my tuppence worth.

Another thing you could do is visit a Creed Vendor and try their display GIT as this will probably be more in line with the batch you would then buy from them.

Regards Grant

 

[shavewithbigelow]

Lasts all day and into the evening for me. Actually one of my longer lasting scents.

 

[markb]

Wore it today... 5 hours and it's still there!

It was just a light spray too!

 

[HoratioCaine]

GIT is from the Millesime collection, which is Creed's Eau de Parfum range - in other words, quite potent. I find GIT not only to be strong, but quite long lasting. Everybody's body chemistry is different, of course, by I would advise anyone to be wary of overapplying any Millesime fragrance. When I first got GIT, I wasn't used to its potency. I did a couple spritzes (only a couple) on my chest, and went about my day. A few hours later, I was at a Chipotle restaurant. The woman behind the counter - that is to say, behind the food guard, behind all of the food - asked me if I was wearing cologne. I said, "Yes, and clearly too much of it." She reassured me it smelled good, but I'm not comfortable being able to be smelled at that distance, especially when I'm beating out Mexican food aromas.

 

[The Knize]

I can tell I am going to have to put this to the actual test. It is not safe goiing by my memory. And if the lady behind the counter at Chipotle can smell HoratioCaine on GIT day, maybe she can smell me, too, which I agree is not the presentation I am going for!

GIT is supposed to ne edp strength? I really had not processed that. That means that SMW and Himalya would be, too. They do not seem nearly so strong to me as say a CF edp or Boucheron or Jaipur edp. Especially Himilaya.