Viking by Creed Eau De Parfum For Men 100ml

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I will update my review regarding the performance etc after I have had more time with it and sorry for mentioning the "A" word so much, haha. I would say this is suitable for guys 25 and over, it is more mature and very masculine for sure, so not a youthful clubbing scent, but still smells sexy. This would be really good to wear to a whisky bar. Overall I really like this and my girlfriend likes this more than Aventus by a fair bit, its nice, clean, fresh but spicy and gives a really unique feeling and sensation when smelling it in the air. What makes Creed so polarising, besides inflated prices and specious claims of royal heritage, is that their fragrances walk the line between boldly rugged and unabashedly crude, true to that ur-British sensibility which also gave us scratchy Shetland sweaters and clunky Church's shoes. Whether Creed scents would make you shiver with pleasure or give you a thumping migrane used to depend on which side of the line your own sensibilities lay.

Your mileage may vary but if you can pay the price to get it for your collection then by all means enjoy. A few weeks after this came out I put some on to go visit my parents. My sons both came with and were wearing other frags. Moments after we arrive and walk in the door my mother, who is nearing 80 at the time, says "Who's wearing Old Spice?". This is acidic almost. Very strange to have called it Viking. India would have been a more descriptive name.I didn't expect to like something called "Viking", and certainly didn't expect it to be this sophisticated. She still had an old bottle of his OG Old Spice from the 60's in his old trunk, which is full of old family heirlooms and I popped the little splash top out and the fragrance was utterly stunning. I'm going to buy a factory sealed carded sample from Creed and verify my findings, I'll update this post once completed. Is this better/does viking replace aventus for me? No, they’re completely different. I feel viking is more versatile whereas aventus is strictly a summer fragrance. I only pull Aventus out in the heat or it simply just doesn’t project.

If I had to conjure it in one image, I'd say, picture stumbling onto Cary Grant, in a tuxedo, sitting in the woodworking shop of a high-end furniture maker, eating the world's best-smelling take out Indian food. It's one of those fragrances that really can't be done justice in words, but that's kind of the references it evokes for me. I don’t know how to edit, but the more I wear this lately because my Bois Du Portugal sample ran out, the more I like this. It has an addicting tingle to the senses. It’s actually a really unique spicy and cool scent. It’s still a spring/summer fragrance for me personally, even though I’m testing it out again in the cold months.It’s quite in your face, A ‘I’m the chairperson of the board’ type vibe. Intimidating more than anything. If you like Mugler style fragrances you might enjoy this. It's a lovely fragrance, it's well made with excellent ingredients and it smells like something that costs a 15th the price. Perhaps this is why Viking gets so much undeserved hate. My 10ml fragrance of Viking is phenomenal, that's why I always raised an eyebrow at the hate it gets. If most people are experiencing the version of Viking that I most recently tried, then no wonder people tend to pile on Viking and not give it the true appreciation it deserves.