Green Irish Tweed
Creed (1985)

Overall Rating: ★★★★☆
Longevity: 5–7 hours
Sillage: Moderate

​The Composition

​Green Irish Tweed is the definitive "gentleman’s" fresh fragrance. While others in the Creed lineup try to be loud, GIT is about quiet, rural sophistication.

​The Opening: A sharp, photorealistic blast of lemon verbena and peppermint. It doesn't just smell "green"—it smells like a crushed violet leaf in a damp meadow. It’s bracing, ozonic, and famously resembles a high-end version of the 80s powerhouse DNA.

​The Heart: This is where the violet really takes over. It’s powdery but masculine, avoiding the "makeup bag" smell and staying firmly in the "freshly tailored tweed suit" category.

​The Drydown: The famous Creed sandalwood and ambergris base. It’s salty, creamy, and remarkably smooth. This is where the distance between GIT and its cheaper inspirations (like Cool Water) becomes most apparent.

It is very likely this has been reformulated into a mess, but as I have no interest in paying nose-bleeding prices to simply try a vintage version here are my thoughts on the new formulation: Top notes of lemon verbena that cede to floral notes on the heart and then to sandalwood on the base. If you want to smell like an English gentleman this will make you smell like a suave, English gentleman (albeit very briefly). The geranium and violet notes are far more prominent in cooler seasonal wearings, but, regardless of seasons, in typical current Creed fashion the perfume lasts about as long as this review has - and it is just as boring and thoughtless.

Despite its messy backstory (no, Olivier, you did not make GIT and you certainly didn’t make it for King Alfonso XIII), Green Irish Tweed is my favourite from Creed.

This was my go to scent, if not my signature one, in the early 2010’s. GIT and Aventus was what I wore every other day, alternating between the two. I have a newer F batch bottle, and while the performance is really good, it’s not the same as the older batches. (I know this because I still have a couple of bottles from 2010 with just a little bit of juice in them). The older juice is heavier on the violet and sandalwood and deeper and darker. But the F batches are really good, just a bit more balanced out and not as heavy.,

So why don’t I wear GIT anymore? Well, I do wear it occasionally, but I’ve graduated to other scents that I think are more modern and better suited for me today. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy wearing it around the house, because I really do. Oddly, I never really got complimented with GIT like I did with Aventus.

Because I don’t wear GIT much, my wife didn’t recognize it recently; she asked what I was wearing. Her comment was that it was light and airy. I suppose that’s a good way to describe it—light, lemony, airy, fresh, grassy, woody, flowery, and very smooth.

I’m wearing it now and it’s really got me thinking that I should put it back into the rotation, especially with spring coming up. Check it out if you haven’t already. It’s really good.

If Cool Water is wearing Levis and a white tee, GIT is rocking a custom-made pinstripe gray suit. I’ve never been to Ireland but I can imagine a chill, crisp day by the river, surrounded by fresh grass. This’ll make you feel so fresh and so clean that Outkast is gonna sue you for copyright infringement. Thumbs Up.

Masterpiece. That is the one word to review this. Another is timeless. Or elegant. Suave. Debonair. Gentlemanly. Rugged. Refined. Exquisite. It could go on and on.

It really is my favorite men's fragrance. I find myself just sniffing the atomizer if it is within reach. I'd wear it everyday for any occasion if it weren't so expensive. It's green. It's blue. But the color that stands out to me is purple. It's the color I see when smelling this. The iris/violet/lavender notes are the MVP notes. It's the green grass opening that many people comment on, but those floral notes are what tie it all together for me. And the ambergris smooths it all out so that it is effortlessly lush, yet retains a sparkle and life. Pierre Bourdon. Creed. A tip of the cap on this one. It will always be on hand in my fragrance arsenal. 10 out of 10 if there ever was one.