Néroli Sauvage (1994)
by Creed

Wow this is so boring, a very light orange and also very low key. Seems so mediocre.

The first 10 seconds are citrus perfection. Sour citrus and neroli in perfect proportion. I wish the terpenes could stay around, but then this quickly develops in to a much sweeter scent. It has better lasting power than expected, once it gets to it's sweet stage, but the sillage is still minimal. This is another creed that is begging for the first blast to be made linear.

Citrus at its best. You couldn't wish for more from this if you like citrus oriented scents. Long lasting too despite what people say and think. Beautiful blend of sweetness and citrus.

If Neroli Sauvage was a movie it would be called - "Gone in Sixty Seconds". Premature olfactication. The opening is terrific - a beautiful sort of lemony intoxication. There's almost no middle or base notes. So much promise but ultimately disappointing.

I hate to sound like a philistine but if this were, say, $30 a bottle I'd recommend it as a pleasant "shpritz" that, when it first goes on, smells fantastic: a sensual floral note brought to earth by a base note of ambergris and made piquant by citrus. But, like the other reviewers who were less than enthusiastic, after half an hour the complexity that Creed does so well evaporates. What's left is a generic sugary smell that smells like it could be the key ingredient in some kind of Victorian orange candy. The good news is that one has to be very close to smell it, as the frag has no staying power. The bad news is that anyone who gets that close ought to be rewarded with something better. I would have given this a neutral rating but with a price tag over $200, what comes out of the bottle should be transportive, life affirming, and consciousness changing. This stuff is undistinguished sweets.

Too simple in its citrus ways. Not unpleasant, though.