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Good day gentlemen. I was in the mood for this today.

My SOTD yesterday Sunday was this one, this fragrance was gifted by my mother in law like 4 years ago and yesterday decided to wear it since quite a long time. The other thing that I wore this on Sunday was that on Saturday I went to Sephora & tried the new Invictus Elixir on skin and me & my wife liked it. She liked it more than Sauvage Extrait that I also tried 😅. And I said to myself on Sunday, since I will be home & yesterday I tried the Invictus Elixir, let me wear the OG. My wife also likes this one, the new Elixir is not in the same ball park as the OG but is really good, I can see myself owning a bottle of it in the future. I forgot how good the OG was

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcei3SqirOo/?igsi=MWhieWM4dXNsOWFjeQ== Owned it. Loved it. Scream about it all the time as the best I have ever smelled from the House and my second fave frag ever. The original Alexandria. 120 bottles total ever produced. Only frag ever that was better imho was Al Shamoukh Attar by Amouage. Owned full bottles of both.

Buckle up. This is a long one! Iris Debonair is another welcome step in a new direction for Creed, which I can appreciate. I had high hopes for this scent, based on the name, as I have recently been on a bit of an iris kick thanks to DHI 2011 and DHP 2014. I wasn’t expecting it to smell like either of these fragrances, but I was expecting more, well…iris! Don’t get me wrong, the iris is there, but it might as well be the ghost of an iris flower that you’re just barely able to perceive the remnants of. Like a flower that was once there, but only the faintest imprint is left behind in its absence. I find myself really having to search for it, rather than being confronted face to face with something that says, “Yep, that’s iris, alright!” But for some people, that may be exactly what they want, or all they can tolerate of that note. It’s also a very light, airy, fresh, clean version of iris in contrast to the dense, waxy, powdery iris of the Dior Homme line. To my nose, this is not an iris fragrance. This is a fresh, clean, creamy, slightly fruity, slightly green fragrance. The most dominant notes that I detect are fig, wormwood, and citrus, with a nice creamy and juicy nature. There is sort of a gin quality to it from the absinthe, but by no means is it “boozy.” It mainly adds a fresh green character to it, alongside the violet leaf. There is a subtle lavender note that further adds to the clean, soapy nature of the fragrance. But I don’t really detect any spiciness from the pink pepper or cardamom, nor do I get any amber OR wood from the amberwood, or any musk from the ambrette. Which is sort of where this fragrance falls a bit flat for me, as I feel it would really benefit from a solid woody note to give it some backbone and perhaps some musk to add depth and more weight to such a light fragrance. As overused as sandalwood can seem at times, I feel the right type of sandalwood note could further enhance the creamy, somewhat lactonic, aspect of the fragrance, while some cedarwood might add some much needed depth.