Feuille Verte (2006)
by Creed

Feuille Verte, or "Green Leaf" is an incredible fragrance of extremely high quality. As of now, it stands as the best release of 2006, and easily holds its own against the best that the house of Creed has released over the past 240 years. Yes, its that good.

The olfactory experience starts with a sharp, piney and fresh top notes of lime and madarin. These top notes awaken you to the olfactary experience you are about to undertake and command attention. The lime is especially attention drawing. After 15 minutes, its onto the middle notes. Here is where you will experience the "Forest smell" of Verte...the oakmoss brings about that earthy smell. It is kept in check by the wonderful vanilla and Bulgarian rose notes so as not to deter people wary of vetiver-type earthy notes. After that phase subsides, you experience the drydown, which is simply superb...instead of the usual Creed ambergris/musk/vanilla drydown, you are treated to a jasmin note of the highest quality. And this completes the olfactory journey of one of the finest fragrance creations around. All of this is provided to you with a guarantee of good sillage and longevity. If you are a fan of "green" scents, or just a fan of fragrances in general, you need to try this.

The only negative is that, for now, this is a limited edition fragrance. Its a disappointing that Creed doesn't have plans to add this to their permanent line.

Rating: 9.5/10

Today is a gloomy autumn day here, thick clouds overhead, ground wet from recent rain. Instead of giving in to the weather, I wanted to feel spring and Creed’s Feuille Verte did the trick. Fresh, green and serene, it works magic. One of the best Creed’s I have tried and one that certainly deserves to be part of Creed’s regular line. I echo the comments of zztopp and tilted.

memories that will just about completely fade within 2 hours

it smells mostly like the name: a green leaf

I don't see anything to get all rapturous about

at least it doesn't stink of ambergris!

This is a quirky one. It is a construction made from really superb ingredients, each note is sublime and very natural smelling. The lime mandarin top is clear and bright and surprisingly persistentas it melts down into the mossy vanilla with a tinge of rose. The rose serves to blend the citrus into the middle and link it into the vanilla, which is underscored by a very pure jasmine absolute.

It really is a game of three halves, with top middle and base having quite seperate identities. For me this is a delight and also the problem with this fragrance. I get a slight curdling sensation between the acid citrus and the emulsion-like vanilla heart. This is smoothed off (to an extent) in a guerlain-like fashion by the mossy note in a conceptually similar way to heritage or habit rouge (in this conceptual aspect only, the frags are quite different).

I find it bold and interesting that the vanilla forms the heart and the jasmine the base where usually the contruction wouls sit the other way around.

Overall, a fine fragrance with stunning quality of ingregients, blended in an interesting and thought provoking way, but,for me, just short of being a classic.

Magnificent green scent that evolves into a sensual and serene dry down with great sillage and lasting power. All the notes blend into an enchanting mood of outdoor sweetness. I have received compliments and inquiries each time I have worn this scent. This will rank in my top three frangrances of all time.

I had a friend pick up a bottle of this rare cologne for me, and I can say that I am a proud owner of one of a hundred. After a few days of having it I have grown to know it, more and more intimately.

The cologne is so pure, complex and concentrated that the first day the opening will smell overpowering piney/woody at the beginning for about 10-20 min. This piney scent is just a woody oakmoss with flowery scent added to it so thus it gives illusion of piney scent that reminds one of that first Polo green bottle. There is certain spiciness and zest to it that gives of freshness of a toothpaste or pine scented concentrate for water when cleaning floors.
After about 20 min it begins to change and dilute beautifully on your skin. It starts off as a scent of a honeysuckle in a someones garden in a suburbia on mild summer clear day and there is a touch of magnificent scent of a Yasmin as well; but not as much as the Bulgarian rose; and you cannot miss that scent of a enchanted forest to it. It smells extraordinary....The best smell to go to a church with..There is so much depth and finesse to it and purity that no other cologne can come close to it. It smells like a summer day in a SChwatzwald clinic scenery (German series) while you are having a joyride in a brand new convertible Mercedes with your friends...fairytale. I think some of the earlier Hugo Boss colognes with that honeyscent have failed miserably trying to capture this magic.

The best way to describe it if you watch DVD Lord of the Rings, The return of the King, chapter 7, when Arwen walks through the fairytale forest with her Elves and then that beatufil opera song emerges and light after which she rides a horse over a bridge, into the city and on that dais with fallen leafs where she meets that man who has a gift of foresight. It smells a glorious as that entire scene.
To be honest I could picture only the Elves in the white robes, or Arc-angels wearing this scent because no mortal man deserves to smell like this...