Cyprès-Musc (1948)
by Creed

I didnt like this one a bit. not even a bit. wouldnt wear it even if offered a bottle for $5. smells like pinesol cleaner which moves on to be softer and cleanign agent kind of musk. this myabe the harshest feeback i have ever written but thats how badly CM treated me. im totally with Slarty on this. SAMPLE FIRST - in capital.

One of those truly niche Creeds that doesn't get talked about much and is more interesting, and, I feel, better than MI, SMW or Himalaya. As often, the cypress notes can be a little harsh and lacquer-like at the outset, though this is far more restrained than, say, DSH Hinoki. The slightly sulfurous note, which Turin refers to as "boiled egg" is less evident on me in hot weather and the fragrance quickly evolves into a pleasant and subtle woody-green plus very fine sweet musk - the latter much better than many of those terribly cheap-smelling skin scent musks. Not something to show off, but rather to quietly enjoy one's idiosyncratic taste.

Oh no!
Another posted review lost in cyberspace
It's becoming tedious . . .
So let me confine my comments to:
It rocks!
Buy it.

You want wood? You got it! Cypres Musc is the woodiest smelling fragrance I've ever smelled, hands down. Other than the hammering blast of lavender that punches you in the face on first spritz, all I smell is WOOD, WOOD, WOOD. The reviewers who say that Cypres Musc smells like the great outdoors are spot on. Wearing it feels like you're walking through a pine tree forest near the ocean. It's also extremely masculine and not what anyone would classify as a "light, casual" fragrance. Don't be turned off by the loud, dissonant, medicinal blast that hits you initially, because it mellows out after a couple of hours and just smells woody and manly. It reminds me of Yatagan, but without the raunchy, animalic base notes that Yatagan has. It's excellent!

Creed Cypres-Musc

I've complained often about how some names of perfumes have nothing to do with what is inside the flacon. With this 1948 creation from the House of Creed I needn't have worried this perfume is all about cypress and musk, delightfully so. Right from the top the cypress is present and it is a beautiful astringent wood that has a beautiful aromatic scent to it. As the woodiness mellows I pick up the greenness that galbanum imparts as it adds a sense of life to the cypress. I have heard mint mentioned as a note many have expereienced with Cypres-Musc but I never seem to pick it up. The top and heart of this is all green and woody to me. The base is the advertised musk and it seems to balance the green beginning with something animalic and different. It could be a jarring shift in tone but the musk comes in slowly until after a few hours it has taken over and I hardly remember the shift happening. Cypres-Musc is very probably my favorite Creed that I've tried to date.

Starts off with something jarring, discordant; I think it may be the mint disagreeing with the galbanum. That lasts for a few minutes. In fact, the first time I tried this on my skin, I was very put off by it. After a relatively short time (perhaps 15–20 minutes), however, things start to smooth out and the cypress begins to come out and dominate (or at least tame) the earlier accord. Then the scent becomes quite elegant and manly in a woodsy, musky sort of way, with a touch of the Creed signature ambergris rounding it out and mellowing it; and, voilà, the caper is pulled off smoothly and seemingly effortlessly!