I remember the week this fragrance came out, back in 2010. Seven days of guys across various fragrance forums complaining it smelled like Creed's "designer sellout frag." Everyone claimed it smelled like something you'd typically buy at Macy's, only done with top quality materials. Tons of Aventus bashing.
Then, idk, maybe a year later, suddenly the direction of public sentiment shifted to "Aventus is God." In the subsequent nine or so years the adulation has rarely ebbed, although I'm noticing recently some complaints about it being reformulated down from its past glory, into something not quite as captivating.
It's definitely an interesting fragrance. The dozens of clones it has inspired, the fanclubs, the arguments about gravity's effect on women's underwear (and whether Aventus factors into gravitational equations), and the fact that it's the first Creed to get major flankers, all have fascinated me. Yet for some reason I've never wanted a bottle. My impression of the fragrance has always been that it smells like a simplified Spice & Wood on top, and dries down to the smell of paper money. Ok, but not really a must-have for me.
Then, idk, maybe a year later, suddenly the direction of public sentiment shifted to "Aventus is God." In the subsequent nine or so years the adulation has rarely ebbed, although I'm noticing recently some complaints about it being reformulated down from its past glory, into something not quite as captivating.
It's definitely an interesting fragrance. The dozens of clones it has inspired, the fanclubs, the arguments about gravity's effect on women's underwear (and whether Aventus factors into gravitational equations), and the fact that it's the first Creed to get major flankers, all have fascinated me. Yet for some reason I've never wanted a bottle. My impression of the fragrance has always been that it smells like a simplified Spice & Wood on top, and dries down to the smell of paper money. Ok, but not really a must-have for me.