Vetiver Geranium
Creed (2014)

This fragrance gives a crisp, vibrant, cool vibe and is excellent for hot weather. There is an almost metallic, high frequency citrus/apple top that slightly fades, but is still there hours later. I think this smells like a white wine/champagne plus vetiver grass. Much like the smell I get when drinking a chilled Pinot Grigio in a grassy park in the Spring. That's the place this fragrance takes me. A big thumbs up. I don't consider this to be a fragrance that should have an age-group put on it. This is a scent that can work in warm weather for men or women. This fragrance clearly uses old-fashioned perfuming methods that give a natural, high quality result.

Vetiver Geranium is a captivating fragrance that can be worn by anyone. At the opening, I detect a burst of mango, with a hint of patchouli that is more noticeable than the advertised Granny Smith apple note. The scent is reminiscent of L'Artisan's Timbuktu, but without the incense. It also lasts longer than other fragrances from Creed. The drydown has a similar scent to Windsor/Royal Mayfair. Overall, it is a perfect fragrance for the spring season.

One of Creed's better current formulations. Strength is good (for a Creed) and it has a lovely sillage that slips up to your nose at unexpected moments for hours after application.

As others have noted, fruity top notes, including apple, and geranium leaf combine into an alluring scent. The dry-down is also quite lovely.

A good performer in warm, moist conditions.

This is a lovely feminine fragrance. It is not unisex.
Fresh and light but lacking in substance. You get what is says on the packet : Vetiver and geranium. Longevity is poor. Max 90 minutes.

Fragrance: 6.75/10 as a male, 7.75 as a female.
Projection: 7/10
Longevity: 6.5/10

Creed Vetiver Geranium (2014) is part of Creed's "Acqua Originale" collection based on Olivier Creed's supposed world travels. Regardless of the story or circumstance around the creation of Vetiver Geranium, what we get is a modern fruity floral take on an old dandy theme. Geranium has secretly been a key ingredient to masculine perfumes for over a century, but usually paired in a tandem with lavender like with Avon for Men (1949) for a classic clean, or used in place of rose and gussied up like in Salvador Dali Pour Homme (1987), but never really emphasized as the core of the scent. Creed isn't the first to do this, since Paco Rabanne put geranium at the center of XS Pour Homme (1993) decades earlier, but in recent times it has been the luxury/prestige side of the niche perfume world that has attempted to market mostly-geranium fragrances either as ultra-luxe masculines or male-leaning unisex scents as evidenced by Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle Géranium Pour Monsieur (2009), Diptyque Geranium Oderata (2014), and this. Luckily Creed knocks it out of the park with Vetiver Geranium and walks away with an absolutely gorgeous interpretation of the flower.

The opening of Vetiver Geranium is a simply gorgeous tart green apple, bergamot, lemon, and geranium. The latter is bright, but not so much like rose as one may suspect thanks to the juicy apple and all the while, the vetiver sneaks up to add a bit of verdant charm usually given to verbena in these compositions. The vetiver isn't smoky, but more of the grassy/nutty Haitian variety, and it gets spiced a bit by cinnamon and flanked with some Turkish rose in the heart to start drying up that happy green and sweet geranium opening. The base is subtle, with Creed house ambergris (likely cetalox), and a concordance of more green as patchouli mixes with cedar over a subtle white musk base to assist the ambergris. This is a proper gentleman's floral despite the unisex tag but anyone can really wear it. Performance is stellar and because of it, I do warn going easy on the trigger. Expect 10-12 hours easily and sillage can be monstrous, especially if you make yourself anosmic from the ambergris accord, but use pretty much anytime or anywhere outside maybe winter or romantic occasions.

This is just so classy, fresh, unique, and well done that I honestly forget it's from Creed, who usually have stayed in their lane since Aventus (2010) with well-executed but sometimes boring mass-appeal scents designed to be a "better" alternative to designers. They've beaten that horse to death even since Green Irish Tweed (1985), but after all the faux-history and "vaulting/unvaulting" shenanigans, I had lost hope of Olivier or Erwin doing anything that didn't play into the hands of nouveau-niche "dudebros" looking to impress or intimidate with their clouds of sillage not altogether removed from more "plebian" try-hards like those who still abuse Joop! Homme (1989) on busses. However, this sophisticated green and gorgeous geranium sweeted just right and touched with a perfect amount of vetiver is a breath of fresh air I'll never grow tired of walking into. Yeah, it's still expensive as Hell so look for deals and please test first, but if Creed stopped trying to reinvent history or dig into the pockets of guys too self-absorbed to give two shakes about that history, this style should be the direction they pursue going forward. Thumbs up!

A masculine woody-floral sensation from Creed.

Vetiver Geranium is heavy on fruity elements (the Granny Smith apple note - yum!) plus compulsory citrus aromatics (bergamot and lemon) that slide effortlessly into the rose-like geranium note accented by patchouli and cedar wood. Cinnamon, rose, musk and amber are lightly perceptible and appear to act as flourishes to the dominant geranium flower.

Fresh, bright, clean scent with an aromatic edge, Vetiver Geranium is a credible entry in the Creed line.