Creed · 1995

Millésime Impérial

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5
Creed asks $490 for 100 ml
50 ml$360
100 ml$490
240 ml$780

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Bright bergamot, blackcurrant and green violet leaf over powdery iris and a salty sea breeze, settling on cedar and sandalwood.

Creed says

You’ll smell bergamot, blackcurrant, Violet Leaves, iris (orris), Salty Marine Accord, cedarwood, musk and sandalwood.

More from Creed’s description

It also mentions Marine accord.

The house’s page

The drawn Millésime Impérial bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Millésime Impérial’s scent picture, a draft: bergamot, blackcurrant, violet, iris, salty marine, cedar drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Millésime Impérial, top notes: Bergamot, Blackcurrant, Violet

Heartas it settles

Millésime Impérial, heart: Iris, Salty marine

Dry-downwhat stays

Millésime Impérial, dry-down: Cedar, Musk, Sandalwood, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

7 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender2 florals1 sweet1 powder

2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Club de Nuit SillageArmaf · shares bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis), violet (sweet violet), orris and 3 more$50 for 105 ml · about a tenth of Millésime Impérial’s $490
Quelques Fleurs L'OriginalHoubigant · shares bergamot, violet (sweet violet), orris, cedar (Atlas cedar) and 2 more$250 for 100 ml · about half of Millésime Impérial’s $490
Santal 33Le Labo · shares violet (sweet violet), orris, cedar (Atlas cedar), cashmere knit and 1 more$348 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.