Millésime Impérial (1995)
by Creed

Like other posters, I didn't care for it at first and then grew to like it. My first impression was of slightly rotten fruit in stagnant water. A couple of days later, it became refined slightly rotten fruit in stagnant water and weeks after wards it is now a very interesting salty acquatic blend of slightly rotten fruit in stagnant but clear water.

Erolfa is better, if you're going by the seashore--or anywhere else where there's a sea breeze. On land, sea and air, Himalaya puts it to shame. However, this is just my subjective, humble, and infallible opinion. In any case, that there gold bottle sure is shiny and purty.

I wonder if this is Creed's best seller, running neck to neck with GIT?

This scent is currently under review

Very nice fragrance that bears great resemblance to Sean John's Unforgivable (not as much as GIT/Cool Water though). The problem is, you have this popular, mass marketed fragrance that smells just like the one you paid $200 for. Regardless, as a scent, it is finely blended and is smooth and not nearly as loud as Unforgivable. Mandarin here dominates the other few ingredients but each one has its place in the blend.

Millésime Impérial is one of my favorite Creed fragrances. To me it smells like a fresh ocean breeze on a sunny day and a glorious orange/melon opening.

It is stimulating, what with the citrus, yet tempered/mellowed by the ambergris and salty marine notes. It doesn't have terrific longevity, and this is the #1 complaint you hear about MI. It does not project or produce tremendous silage, yet it is not a "skin scent" either.

Moreover, MI can be used as a base if you enjoy layering. I never did much layering until I tried MI with another Creed (Bois du Portugal) which produces this tremendous, rich, amazing blend.

No specific references to the MI knockoffs in this review. Those who know Millésime Impérial will understand it is in a league of its own.

One of the best aquatics in town.

It's an uplifting, fizzy, citrus-sweet, melon-like summer outdoor scent. Synthetics at its best: while there probably are natural ingredients in Millesime Imperial (the ambergris, maybe?) it's one of the best themes around calone, or the watermelon-note.

People on a budget can get their Millesime Imperial fix by buying Sean John Unforgivable, but otherwise, this is one of the best youthful summer scents you can buy. Superb, one of the better new Creeds.

I think this is a bit of a victim of its own success. Just smelling the fragrance as it is without caring about Creed, King Faisal etc. one gets a fresh fruity scent that, while coming with a nice ambregris note, has SO MANY competitors these days that I find it extremely hard to justify the extra price tag. No need to mention Unforgivable, even extreme cheapies like Nautica Blue (No, really. Try it!) manage to combine freshness and fruityness, with a base that may be constructed of cheap synthetic musk molecules, but still gives an impression of something-like-ambregris. It's not a horribly bad scent, but neither Creed's heritage nor the high price is adequately mirrored by the scents quality/complexity, which is why I give a thumbs-down.