Creed · 2010
Aventus
Longevity
Very long8-12 hours
Projection
ModerateFills your personal space
Polarising
Mixed
Bright fruit, smoky woods, cool cedar breeze
Scent Notes
Woody
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About This Perfume
Aventus by Creed is a Chypre Fruity fragrance for men. Aventus was launched in 2010. Aventus was created by Jean-Christophe Hérault and Erwin Creed. Top notes are Bergamot, Black Currant, Apple, Lemon and Pink Pepper; middle notes are Pineapple, Patchouli and Moroccan Jasmine; base notes are Birch, Musk, oak moss, Cedarwood and Ambroxan. Aventus celebrates strength, vision and success, inspired by the dramatic life of war, peace and romance lived by Emperor Napoleon. The bottle is emblazoned with a silver emblem of a horse and rider. The finest ingredients were hand-selected for this composition, and father and son developed this provocative, masculine and optimistic fragrance as a joint effort. Top notes: blackcurrant, bergamot, apple and pineapple. Heart: rose, dry birch, Moroccan jasmine and patchouli. Base: oak moss, musk, ambergris, and vanilla. Aventus is available in flacons of 30, 75, 120 and 250 ml.
Projection
Moderate
Gender lean
Leans masculine
The verdict
Best for
Creed dates its house history to 1760 (with the modern perfume business rebuilt from 1970s Grasse forward); Scendira lists 144 Creed fragrances with 38 in stock. Prices run $35 to $780, Creed sits firmly in the luxury tier, with Aventus, Silver Mountain Water and Green Irish Tweed as the three references that shaped modern masculine niche perfumery. The stocked catalogue leans fresh-unisex on average. Community top five right now: Absolu Aventus 2023 (blackcurrant-pineapple-cardamom, the 2023 flanker), Vetiver Geranium (bergamot-geranium-cedar, 2014), Spice and Wood (apple-clove-birch, 2010), Jardin d'Amalfi (sunlit citrus-apple, 2011) and Virgin Island Water 2007 (lime-coconut-tonka). Aventus itself remains the anchor: fruity, smoky, unisex-leaning masculine, batch-to-batch variance is real and a known community discussion point. Newer flankers Aventus Cologne and Absolu Aventus 2023 sit next to the original in the range.
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