The one and only: A CREED AVENTUS review!

Have you ever been looking for a fragrance, that is unique and let's you stand out of the mass?
A fragrance that express freshness, sweetness as well as masculinity?
Well, the answer is yes. There is a fragrance out there that fulfills all those criteria. It is a niche fragrance created by the house of CREED.
In 2010 the master perfumer Olivier Creed introduced a scent inspired by the life a historic emperor, who engaged in wars, peace and romance, always riding on horse to victory. It is a a perfume meant to symbolise the leader role of a man: Strength, power, vision and success.
The fragrance I'm talking about is no other than Aventus.

Like any other fragrances, Aventus has a drydown consisting of three parts that you can smell after application. These stages are called Top Notes, Middle Notes and Base Notes. As the names might tell the smell of a fragrance begins with the top notes and then slowly transcends through the middle notes down to the base.
In order give the wearer an enjoyable fragrance experience that doesn't smell monotone, all these stages typically have different ingredients.

Aventus' ingredients consists of:

Top Notes:

Blackcurrant

Italian Bergamot

French apples

Pineapple

Middle Notes:

Roses

Dry birch

Morrocan jasmin

Patchouli

Base Notes:

Musk

Oak moss

Ambergris

Vanilla

When I first smelled Aventus I was overwhelmed and shocked by the great and strong opening it had. Never had I ever smell anything like this before. Despite the strong start I mentioned, the fragrance wasn't offensive at all, the smell was very pleasant. It was very fruity and sweet, yet also very fresh opening and one could smell the pineapple immediately. The scent also had a bit of a subtle smokiness to it that blended very well without taking the freshness away.
After a little while the top notes began to dry down and the middle notes began to surface. A slight floral and woodsy hint became noticeable. As the other notes began to settle down hours later, it began to smell more musky and earthy. But the fruits were still noticeable. Aventus' smell was fantastic, despite all the notes contradicting each other on paper. The ingredients blended perfectly and were well balanced. That alone was reason enough for me to by the fragrance.

As for the sillage of this fragrance, one can smell Aventus immediately after application and it radiates a strong aura that is also noticeable for other people without being too offensive. And because the fragrance is so strong, I usually only need to use 2 sprays to get through the day. But depending on my occasion I want to attend I apply up to 4 sprays. Aventus is also one of the CREED's best perfumes regarding its longevity. I can easily get 6-10 hours out of it. When I leave the house for work or university and walk by some people, they can smell Aventus and many have asked me already, what I was wearing. Some of them didn't even know me.

The only downsides that Aventus has are its price and its inconsistencies of the smell regarding the batch it was produced. The 2.5 OZ bottle goes for around for 275$ and the 4.0 OZ bottle goes for 330$. It is pretty expensive for a fragrance, but one must know that CREED is a niche perfume house that uses a small factory produce fragrances. Therefore the perfumes are produced in a much smaller scale than the one's of a designer house. And because the scale is so small, Aventus needs to be created in yearly to keep up with the demand.
Compared to other houses CREED tires to use as many natural products as it can and tries to stay away from synthetic chemicals in order give the wearer the best natural fragrance experience. For every production batch the house needs to buy new ingredients.
As they need to buy new ingredients every year, it is not possible for them to control the quality of products, even though they always buy the best ingredients available. What I mean by quality is that the crop can't always stay the same every year, since they are affected by the soil, weather and other circumstances. Altough CREED's formula stays the same, all those small factors will result in a difference of smell between the different batches. One batch might smell more smokey with a less fruity accent, while other batches might burst with 'fruityness'.
The initial smell, that Aventus is trying to project still stays the same.
But let us not talk bad about the fragrance anymore. One thing I nearly forgot the mention is the occasion. Aventus is a fragrance, that was released in the summer of 2010. It is a fresh fragrance, that was also given a dark and mysterious attribute with the smokiness. To be completely honest, I don't know where to categorise this fragrance, whether it's for summer, spring, fall or winter, work, university, weddings, clubs, or visiting relatives, you can use Aventus every time on every occasion.
That's how versatile the fragrance is.

Creed Aventus 75ml/ 2.5OZ

Creed Aventus 120ml/ 4.0OZ

So, if you are looking for a fragrance, that surpasses most other fragrances you might have ever smelled and on top of that being long lasting, unique and versatile, I can only recommend you to try Creed's Aventus. It really is a great creation of the CREED.
But before you are buying this fragrance blindly, you should try to buy a sample size, just to make sure that you like Aventus.

You can buy a sample or a bottle of Creed's Aventus here!

Thank you very much for reading my review!
I hope you enjoyed it


- Trey


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Current state of mind

I'm currently thinking about creating a German version of my blog, because I am from Germany and would love to see people in my country sharing the same interest as I do. Also I need to improve my German writing, since it is pretty bad.
The thought of adding translated posts to this blog have also crossed my mind, but I have a feeling that things would get confusing for people very fast. Maybe it would work, if I just put the translation below the english text... I will think about it.

My next post will most likely feature a review of a cologne, that I absolutely love.

Givenchy store opens in Las Vegas

A new Givnechy store opened in Los Angeles. It is the first store to open in the United States since the first one closed down in 710 Madison Ave, New York. The 3,100 square feet store sells  men and women clothing, accessories as well as bags from it's current collection. 

The cube shaped design in the interior was inspired by the boxes that Givenchy used to sent it's clothing to the customers. 

I do really like how Givenchy is playing with the white and black colors and using the contrast to highlight the clothing in the cabinets. With the warm white of the lights the contrast between the black and the white isn't too strong. It gives the room a nice pleasant feeling.

The accessories are all displayed in glass vitrines located in different places all over the store, thus making the store an art exhibition.

Overall the store looks very minimalistic and modern. I personally love this design.

You can watch and buy all of the items on ssense.com

-The store is located in 3131 Las Vegas Boulevard, Suite 100, South Las Vegas, USA-

The pictures were taken from @Givenchy

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I'm currently trying to set up my layout. Therefore I need to make sure that I write enough text, so that the text blog will fill my site. After posting this text I will be able to see how much need to customize the widths of my sidebar or my articles. For today I haven't planned much related to fashion, because I'm currently very busy with moving. This is also my first blog, so please give me a litte bit time in order to improve my writing and style. I want to deliver quality articles and reviews so that every one of us will enjoy the things that we might wear in future.