Green Irish Tweed Millésime – sophisticated and distinctive and masculine

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I was searching for a birthday gift for my husband when I discovered Green Irish Tweed Millésime from CREED. When I smelled it, I knew it would suit him perfectly.

The House of CREED was born in London (founded in 1760 by James Henry Creed) and raised in Paris (CREED relocated there in 1854). Over the years, it gained a reputation for creating perfumes for royalty (King George III of England, Empress Eugenie of France, Napoleon III and Czar Nicolas II of Russia) and politicians (Sir Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy), but when Prince Rainier of Monaco commissioned CREED to make a fragrance for actress Grace Kelly for their wedding day, CREED perfumes achieved cult status with the Hollywood set. In fact, Green Irish Tweed Millésime was rumoured to have been created for actor Cary Grant by the incomparable Pierre Bourdon. Nowadays, Olivier Creed and Pierre Bourdon are listed as the perfumers of record for this fragrance.

Launched in 1985, Green Irish Tweed was, and still is, to my nose, one of the best men's fragrances ever created, due in large part to the quality of the ingredients. For example, the “Millésime” designation means that the best crops from a particular year’s harvest were used to create that particular bottle of CREED fragrance.

Green Irish Tweed Millésime opens with fresh, vibrant verbena, clean and lemony, its floral nuances heightened by a note of powdery, slightly sweet iris. It smells green and deliciously refreshing. As it blooms, the violet leaf deepens and strengthens the greenness, making it lush and grassy, while a gentle earthiness from the iris is carried over from the top notes so that the heart is beautifully aromatic and subtly sexy. But for me, Green Irish Tweed is all about the base of Mysore sandalwood enhanced with sweet, animalic ambergris. The sandalwood is green at the start, then grows rich, woody and just a little dry. This is the real deal and there is enough of it in here, so you get the whole experience of it.

The dydown is sophisticated, distinctive and masculine. One of the things I like most about Green Irish Tweed Millésime is its versatility - it would suit a man at any age or stage of his life, whether he’s walking in a country garden, at the opera or a hockey game.  

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