Himalaya (2002)
by Creed

I like the creed house. I just want to give another thumbs up for this. Great amber.

snow and pepper,I get that.very nice scent, only bad thing I say is that it doesn't last long at all on my skin. thumbs up and I can see why himalaya receives high marks.an icee pepper breeze.

This was my first step into the world of niche, and I sure wasn't disappointed. I scanned these reviews for days looking for something I may like and stumbled upon my Holy Grail of scents.
I'll describe it best I can, but there are others here who can do this better than me.
I get a floral/fruity opening with some crisp citrus notes. There is a faint soapiness and fainter metallic tinge. This is where it would get it's cool, arctic feel.
As the drydown kicks in, you get to the Creed payoff: a blissful combination of ambergris, woods and musk. Warm and smooth. This is why you pay the big bucks.
Sillage: fair to good
Lasts fairly well too... better on clothes but I get 3-5 hours.
Beats Paco XS to a pulp! Paco XS is not in the same league as Himalaya. Not even close.
Works well in hot or cold weather.
Creed won me over on it's first try. This is my favorite male fragrance.

The impossibly lovely girl across the room meets your eyes, gets up, and walks right into you arms. You hit all the lottery numbers. Win an Oscar. Receive the highest military award for bravery.
Yes, I know I'm not giving you any of the notes--others have done that quite well--suffice it to say you'll garner compliments all day long while feeling like a soaking wet Gene Kelly in "Singing in the Rain."

Himalaya?
It's like tap dancing in heaven.

However, should you end up in the other place, not to worry. Himalaya works wonders in hot weather as well.

It opens as a slightly offensive hairspray and then settles into a fresher, less offensive hairspray. Oh, and after he had borrowed his wife’s spray can our spiky-haired gent also pinched some of his son’s Paco Rebanne XS. He walks tall, tall as a mountain, he is the Himalaya Man.

I was on and off this fragrance for a couple of years and now have settled down with "on". It is a strange one in that it seems to lack any immediate impact or "wow" factor which gives it a hook. However, it creeps up on me as I wear it. It just keeps smelling good. Without ever standing out I keep thinking "that's nice". Until I reach the far drydown where this really does stand out. The base is familiar from other Creed fragrances but it seem particularly well realised here. I first became acutely aware of this low note accord when I smelled it on my nephew about 14 hours after application. It just smelled wonderful, very heavy on the leathery ambergris and woody musk (lots of ambroxin, I think).

It is not one of favourite creeds and I can find things wrong with it if I search; the top notes which smell a little like the scent in washing up liquid to me and the slightly weird gunpowder accord. It is not clean and classical. It may be something of a zeitgeist fragrance, may not be one which survives many years but it is still very well made with great development.

This is a thumbs up from me now (and for the past year or two. my previous review was neutral.