Chevrefeuille Creed for women and men

This is a lovely light citrus/floral. Good projection, good longevity. Not a feminine floral, this is decidedly gender neutral. I was impressed with the 6+ hours I got out of this considering it's a citrus scent. The projection stays high throughout. The only negative is that toward the end, this one started to go sour and pungent. Takes a long time to get to this point however, so its a minor negative. Grade: B+

Whatever this is, it doesn’t smell like honeysuckle. At first sniff, it smells like lavender, tonka, and some candy-like fruity notes that quickly disappear. Then there comes a citrus-basil note that reminds me of the little plate of Thai basil and lime that always comes with a bowl of pho. There is no trace of honeysuckle flowers. Sillage is moderate, and the scent lasts about 4-5 hours.

I have no idea what Olivier Creed was smelling if, as the blurb on the Creed website says, this scent is based on his memories of a blooming honeysuckle bush. Actually, it’s probably for the best since honeysuckle is such an elusive and difficult note to mimic in perfumery and would probably have turned out badly. As it is, this variation on the herb garden behind the honeysuckle bush is a pleasant and very wearable cologne-type EdT.

Chevrefeuille, In my opinion, is one of the best composition in the Creed's range. Green, floral, refined, unique and absolutely unisex. It opens with a captivating blast of honeysuckle leaves mixed with green notes and immediately enriched by a slight floral accord that stays quite linear for a couple of hours. Liqorice plays hide and seek throughout the fragrance evolution providing a delicate and aromatic extra touch.

While this composition takes the distance from other classics from the same house (i.e. Aventus, SMW, GIT) at the same time it won't disappoint the Creed's purists as the whole perfume structure is built on the usual ambergis base. Even if this time, it feeels like ambergis is kind of lurking in the back as if were a signature printed with the invisible ink. Recommended.

Rating: 7.5/10

Quite possibly the finest Creed I've tried, next to Original Vetiver. My vantage point here is biased, as I'm truly a fan of OV and find it to be the most pleasing Creed available, hands down. When I tried OV, I thought all Creeds were that delightful, and was a little let down when I tried subsequent offerings. Where else can I find that rich greenness? Well, right here in fact. Chevrefeuille Original is a beauty.

It opens with a rich grassy minty greenness that explodes off skin. The grassiness is unsweetened by the mint, and made rather camphorous and bright. Gradually this fresh grass accord, which is rendered in a far more staid manner than that in Original Vetiver, slips into a earthy anise-like middle, with a darkness enveloping the herbs. This is balanced by the emergence of a semi-sweet honeysuckle leaf, which reflects the delicacy of the flowers. As it dries down fully, the honeysuckle leaf comes forward and dominates the fragrance. It's a fairly simple three-tiered evolution, from grassy to anisic to sweet. When I purchased my bottle (blindly, which was bold I do say), I expected a Creed EDT to be weaker than water. Was I ever surprised! Chevrefeuille is quite potent, and a little goes a long way. Under-application leaves you smelling like a vaguely sweet honeysuckle patch. Over-application creates a rich green aura of summery decadent floralcy that can be overbearing in extreme heat. However, I do think this fragrance works best in the dead of summer. Something about heat brings out the sweetness and gives you the full benefit of just how glorious honeysuckle can smell. This is a 10/10.

For me it opens with AMAZING green honeysuckle which pleases my nose with the most wonderful, natural smell of wet grass. I can feel a bits of medical notes, I suspect mint which is not listed, but it's only making this even more likeable, well, at least for my nose.
I feel this as a extremely feminine fragrance at least at the opening, because of the sweet smell of honeysuckle. It's not sexy, nor romantic, it's just plainly refreshing, like a mojito in extremely hot summer day.
I feel that Chevrefeuille is something I would wish to get my hands on in summertime as it's so complex despite the notes and very mouthwatering as I feel it resembles mojito that much.


I'm extremely pleased.

Creed CHEVREFEUILLE is much more about feuilles de chevrefeuille (honeysuckle leaves) than about the flower (honeysuckle) itself. I agree with the category aromatic green, because CHEVREFEUILLE opens very aromatically and then turns very green very fast with a beautiful combination of mint, basil, feuilles de chevrefeuille and who knows what else.

It's all fresh and green, not at all sweet, and a pleasure to smell and be enveloped in, evoking memories of serene grasslands dotted with tiny blossoms. But the blossoms really are tiny: this is not at all a floral fragrance, which makes its name somewhat puzzling.

Perhaps not for Creed, however, since they seem to use some of the names of their fragrances metaphorically or figuratively, or basically anything but literally! In this case, the name probably keeps men away, since it really sounds like it might/must be a single-note floral fragrance. Far from it, in fact! On the other hand, women may be just as surprised to find out how aromatic and almost tart the opening is.

The Creed website, by the way, lists CHEVREFEUILLE under all three of its user categories: women, men, and universal, which seems right, since this is an invigorating and spirit-elevating fragrance suitable for everyone throughout the spring and summer months. The staying power and sillage are good, but the sillage is not at all floral--it is green!

I like this very much would love to have the large economy-size bottle (8.4oz) for reckless splashing...