Green Valley Creed for men

Creamy pastel green overlacing bitter vetiver and fruit-tinged clovery freshness - this is exactly how Green Valley smells. The top is an explosion of cut grass, shaded by mint stems and ginger. Gradually the mint recedes and the ginger steps forward, accented by blackcurrant and vanilla. There are some who compare this to Fahrenheit by Dior - the blackcurrent somewhat replicates the hawthorne sweetness of Fahrenheit, and one could say they're similar, but I find the resemblance fleeting at best. Green Valley has none of the dark tarriness of Fahrenheit. It remains a bittersweet green chypre to the end. Comparisons to Green Irish Tweed are also commonly made. Green Valley shares GIT's violet leaf note, but that's it. Everything else about GV is different, and GIT never comes close to replicating the cool bitterness that fuels GV's opening. The vetiver in this is under-appreciated - it is rendered in a moderate dose at the scent's core, enough to keep it from slipping into generic fruity-floraldom. I like Green Valley, and I think it's a worthy member of the Creed lineup, but I don't think I'd repurchase it. For green, I turn to Original Vetiver, which holds that accord in higher esteem and doesn't embellish it with inedible vanillic notes and pinkish fruits. I guess others feel the same way about Green Valley, which is why it has been discontinued - it's nice, but it doesn't blow your mind. With that said, it's worth a try, if you can find a good bottle. One should be aware that Green Valley spoils after a certain time.

This stuff is nice,

The opening smells similar to Bowling Green Imo
or just imagine the smell of fresh cut grass in the summer morning.

Then the middle notes of vanilla and mint ; which stand out to me most among the others.


Lastly, you get the ginger and musk with the mint still making itself known in the background.

Very Nice.

This smells almost similar to Carrillon pour un ange by Tauer but less harsher and
less oily, the opening sharp and greenish
but dries smooth with a unusual sweetness
a fruity drydown with a glossy leather basenote effect which i find a bit cloying
and uncomfortable to my senses and it has a minty edge when the harsh fruit and leather are ceasing.
this is just an average scent to me nothing exciting.

A very naturally green scent, very clean and crisp, not unlike Irish Spring soap but due to the quality of the ingredients this smell much, much better...

I would have thought this would be an aromatic green, because the definition of chypre (flowers in the top and/or heart and a dry down of woods, mosses and/or musk) does not really fit here.

There are actually no floral notes in this and it begins as a warm and woody green that becomes sweeter in the heart with light fruity notes touched with vanilla and the green is added to by the mint. The ultimate drydown is musky with a slight spicy warmth. I love GREEN scents and this is a nice one, but the sillage is weak(on me) and the longevity, though decent could be better for the asking price.

I enjoyed my sample and applied it after showering with a 'green' shower gel and a palm leaf based lotion and applied it lightly (fearing an attack of Irish Spring!)and then again, before dressing and still strained to smell it. I can't see buying this in a large bottle although I would consider a 1 ounce cologne if the price was right, because it is a very beautiful natural aroma. I was using a vial sample and not a spray and maybe that is why it seemed more a skinscent on me. I have half the 3 ml sample left and will try it again when the days draw colder and see if August's heat diminished it's power...

Sillage: very close
Longevity: average to good
Overall: 3.5/5

If Homme Nature by YR was the color of grass, GV would be a pale spring green. This is a very fresh and clear soapy smelling scent so IrishSpring soap is a very good comparison, though in my opinion it is 1000 times better and infinitely more luxurious. It does remind me of some of the green meadows and forest glens I played in as a child. I would love to own a FB, but there are better Creed scents I wish to acquire first and since it is relatively new, compared to how long some Creeds have been around, I am hoping it is not discontinued any time soon...

Creed IRISH SPRING, er, GREEN VALLEY opened with such promise: a lively aromatic vetiver with a lemon verbena vibe. Unfortunately, things went downhill fast shortly thereafter. To be precise: down deep into a valley replete with Irish springs connected by Irish streams, in which bars of Irish Spring soap are floating by, jostling one another, bobbing up and down with the ebb and flow of the Creed water frothy slosh.

I have nothing personally against Irish Spring soap--although I do prefer white Dial--and this fragrance may well work for gents who harbor latent (or manifest!) fears of smelling too "perfumed". But this is not a soapy drydown that I can recommend, and anyone who wants to wear this scent needs to apply it as perfume, for it just keeps growing bigger and bigger. And greener and greener, like a big green blob seeping into and filling every available volume of space. Yes, it is certainly safe to say that a little goes a long way: I applied but a tiny fraction of my vial (perhaps .3ml?), and I simply cannot get away from the monster sillage.

While attempting to eat dinner, I felt as though my mouth was being washed out with a bar of Irish Spring soap. Now I see before my eyes bars of green marble-streaked Irish Spring soap everywhere around me, closing in on me. Will I succumb finally, crushed to nothing by the ever-approaching and multiplying bars as they continue to proliferate, filling the volume of space I currently occupy until all that remains is my limp body and oxygen-evacuated lungs?

Nope, this soap's not for me. Nor, for the record, is it a chypre!

unique perfume.. It smells of grass, green, green, green and then you have a vanilla, musk drydown.. Omg, i really love this perfume.. another Creed winner..

green opening but the drydown will remind u about Silver Mountain Water or Milessime Imperiale. I guess their basenotes are more or less same.

I'd call this a very "90's" fragrance because it reminds me of all the cKOne and Eau d'Issey clones that came out during that time. It's obviously made of very high quality materials, better than either those two, but is really nothing more than a slightly sweeter and louder version of those two fragrances. I found Green Valley to be appealing for the first ten minutes, but after that, it just felt very cloying and irritated me - way too sweet and loud. It became just plain repellent after an hour, I could taste it; I tried to wash it off, to no effect. It's rather wimpy smelling. In summary, it's made of very good materials, but is totally unoriginal because it rips off fragrances that were release a few years earlier. I guess I wouldn't mind smelling it on someone else who applied it sparingly, but as for wearing it myself, forget it.

unique expirience,delicius perfume very spicy in the beginning and turn onto very fresh fragance