Reviews of Wall Street (2004)
by Bond No. 9

I am absolutely in LOVE with this scent, it smells very refreshing on me and lasts all day with just 3-4 sprays. And it mellows nicely on me. I've taken a long scrugging shower and I can still smell it! Impressive. Yes, it does remind me of Unforgivable but, is more refreshing with the marine notes. Highly recommended.

It has a great opening, bright and fresh with some richness. After a few hours, it fades into something not so complicated but smooth and present, with consistent, moderate sillage. It also has excellent longevity. Ladies love it, I've gotten tons of compliments, however it is still not my favorite scent.

Girls love this scent and me too...nothing else must be said!!!
It is a cool-juicy-aromatic scent...perfect for the summer or for the office.

It starts with a tangy citrus note combinend with fresh cucumber and (sea)kale (some would say watery-melon note).
In the middle note I detect marine notes and Mastic "balsamic with breeze of a leather note" from the pistachios-tree.
And than comes the lavender for the slow-down, mixed with bigarrade from the bitterorange-tree and thyme for the animation.
And for the long lasting power of this scent comes in the basenote musk, vetiver-grass and ambergris.

Maybe Erolfa, M. Imperial, Unforgivable goes in the same direction of scent (or catagory), but they are different.
So I owned all of them, because I like this fresh-marine-woody scents.

Don´t start a Creed vs. Bond battle...I also got 9 different Creed bottles...I must say from Bond I like Wall Street, Hamptons and Bleecker Street...thats it.

Big thumb up.
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My first thought was an extremely less salty Erolfa. Then I think it's something completely different. Well, it's not a direct copy as nothing really is but it's still pretty decent. A nice cucumber and melon scent that seems a little skunky. Like 212 Men perhaps but not as green.

It is interesting to me that several reviewers view Wall Street as similar to a Creed, but there is no consensus view on which one: Erolfa, Millesime Imperial and even Silver Mountain Water. To me, it is most similar to Erolfa, but as a caricature of it. The opening has a salty oceanic character and that is somewhat similar to Erolfa, but unlike Erolfa I find it to be harsh and devoid of any sweetness. The saltiness of sea kale coupled with cucumber reminds me of celery. Since I try to find something distinctly ‘New York’ in Bond no. 9 fragrance (and usually I cannot do so), what comes to mind here is the celery soft drink that is served in New York delis (or at least that is the impression the labels on cans of Cel-Ray soda gave me). At any rate, I find the opening to be harsh and unpleasant. After a long wait (hours), some sweet fruitiness emerges, but this feels rather weak, synthetic and totally related to the early development. I am unimpressed.

Yes, yes, everyone knows that it smells like an inaccurate mixture of MI and GIT by Creed. Some of us know this fact well enough to tell everything about this similarity without even testing any of these three... But let us test it one more time and let's look the other way. And voila! it has the most true smell of angelica stem. I'm talking about a freshly picked leaf with a stem.
That's why, I think, Wall street such a fresh and even slightly overpowering fragrance: just smell angelica on a rainy day, pick up, smear and smell. And the feeling of some sterile freshness is quite similar to angelica greenery as well an uplifting effect. And some bitterness too. To me in spite of all the likeness they are not copies or anything like that: they are absolutely different from the very beginning.
Their effect is similar, but look, if one takes tea to freshen up at noon or drinks coffee for the same purpose, you won't tell these drinks are the same...

A cheap synthetic knock off Creed's Imperial Milesime. I have heard the Bond 9 references to be knock offs of Creed and this is the most obvious. I am extremely disappointed by this scent. I thought" Wow! Wall street...masculine, spicy.. a manly man scent!" and..then..I smell it..and what do I smell??

CUCUMBERS!!

What kind of a wall street bond trader or investment banker walks up and down the street smelling like cucumbers!!?!?! Its a lot like Imperial Milesmile but has a cucumber scent instead of a melon watery opening. The staying power is weak and it smells like cheap vodka after a while.


This scent smells a lot like Sean John by P diddy. Wall Street is overall just Not a very good fragrance with poor lasting power.

Another great scent from Bond. I've had women beg me to tell them what this scent was and I always mess with them and say it's brut mixed with my body chemistry.

I think people try too hard to find similarities between Bond fragrances and Creed rather than just evaluate the fragrance in question. I personally love Wall Street and every one of my friends gets extremely enthusiastic about it whenever worn (including borrowing it for the night). For what it's worth, it's nothing like Erolfa, nothing like Silver Mountain Water.. it is similar to Millesime Imperial but I feel that it's more complex and stronger. I prefer it to MI.

The initial resemblance to Creed's Silver Mountain Water is pretty explicit - even shocking. True, Wall Street is a bit less sweet, and the pronounced cucumber top note makes it the more blatantly aquatic of the pair...but the accusations of plaigerism are still hard to ignore.

The Bond scent doesn't distinguish itself too much from Silver Mountain Water as it ages, either, despite a different list of mid- and base notes. Nor is the drydown any improvement on the original. Next to the Creed's ambergris-tinted exit Wall Street's seems harsh, bitter, and disturbingly synthetic. I'm not impressed.

I really enjoy this one. If you are like me and found Erolfa to be a bit sweet, then you are really going to like this one. It has a beautiful sea salt accord, and is fresh without being at all citrusy. A very well made Vetiver note also shows up for me. It reminds me of walking at the beach wearing linen on an overcast day with a cool breeze. Lasts quite a long time on me and I only need three sprays at the most.

Another clone from Bond No. 9…I think of it as an antiseptically clean Erolfa—apparently others see a closer relationship to Millesime Imperial, which to me is an acceptable insight because I see the two Creeds as being similar. Wall Street has crystal clear notes, every possible disagreeable component removed, no rough edges, all spit and polish. It’s nice— it is very nice. The cucumber note is pretty obvious; plus, it’s attractive and clean. The whole scent contains loads of balanced and refined ozonics. Wall Street has great longevity. I am with those who say they would buy it if its cost were one-third the current asking price. But even then, I’d rather buy Erolfa or MI, because Erolfa and MI have more character—or should I say, Erolfa and Millesime Imperial HAVE character— Wall Street has cleanliness. Character or Cleanliness? Not much of a decision to my way of thinking— cleanliness in an excellent fragrance I can get for $30 - $40.

I love Wall Street! It's fresh, clean, warm, and sensual. I'm definitely getting this as a birthday gift for my husband.

As with virtually all Bond No. 9 products, Wall Street is damn good. The opening notes are quite peculiar and unlike anything I have ever smelled before. To me, it reminds me of a gin & tonic for some reason. You can definitely detect the cucumber/kale, which are a bit odd, but in the end, it ends up being a very nice oceanic scent. It last all day as well, which is another reason I love Bond. The stuff just does not fade.

it's green and too marine,nothing special ..i dont like it.

Wall Street is a nice, well made, ozonic marine fragrance. It starts off with citrusy notes which smell a bit like antacid .. sounds strange, but they are infact intriguing. I can almost immediately smell the ozone/marine notes. During my various test sessions, I could also note a certain "vomit" note; it crops up rarely, and I wonder if its the sea kale. Unforgivable by P. Diddy is very similar to this offering - especially the top notes of antacid/citrus. The difference is that the marine/ozone notes are deeper and more pronounced in Wall Street, while the Unforgivable dwells more on the unique top notes. Wall Street lasts longer, but Unforgivable is far cheaper. For the money and the similarities, I would opt for Unforgivable.

I think Matt is right about the Drakkar Noir as well as the posts on it being a better formed Erolfa. I do smell the Cumcumber Rob talks about. A nice aquatic summertime scent. If you could get a good price on it, a nice edition, but it does not have that WOW factor at a full price buy. One of those scents in my opinion that you would take if someone gifted you, but there are better things to buy out there. However, I will say if you prefer something safe for the summer, consider this scent

I get seaweed, cucumber, melon, and a slight bit of musk as the predominant notes. It lasts all day for me and projects just the right amount...while it is somewhat generic, it smells like a high quality scent - classy yet casual. It's a scent I have come to like more the more I find occasions to wear it. And there are many: it's as at home at work as it is at an outdoor event. Generic? Maybe. But pretty darn good as well. I'd say 3.5 to 4 stars, somewhere in that range. I'm still not sure it's worth the retail price tag though. A cautious thumbs-up.

Very dissapointed in this one. It really feels more like a Drakkar Noir for the new millenium, than a great and original niche offering. Mossy, green, some citrus and a generic marine accord unfortunately don't add up to something worthy of this price range. Get the excellent sweet, green and pleasantly floral Central Park instead.

By far my favorite cologne EVER! Smells like Creed's Erolfa, but more pungent and better formed. Has incredible staying power. The only cologne I have ever worn that has caused strangers, both men and women, to ask what I was wearing. Repeatedly. A good scent for special occasions and goes well with formal wear. Very costly, but price is offset by very positive reaction by all who smell it. Only have a couple of samples, but this goes right onto my X-mas list!

Wall Street is a pretty boring and slightly generic aquatic, woody, and slightly green fragrance. There is nothing about this fragrance that warrants the very high price tag. This is probably the least of a stand out in the entire bond line.

For an expensive product this had a very annoying sweet seaweedy drydown. The guy at No. 9 sprayed this all over my forearm and, I must say, it did have staying power. It was hard to wash off.

Similar to Creed's Imperial (hardly a bad quality right out the gate), but with an orange-like edge to make it a plausible acquisition......and I did. Very "multifunctional"

This smells great - sort of an intense, green-ish L'eau por Kenzo pour Homme with sea kale and lime. Has fine staying power but doesn't really evolve in any sophisticated way in my opinion, especially considering the cost and its pseudo-exclusivity. If it sold for about 1/3 of what it currently retails for I might actually buy a bottle.