Creed has launched Windsor, a new limited edition fragrance for men:
…created in 1936 for King Edward VIII of England from ingredients grown in the British Empire. [...] Windsor is as subtle as the Duke of Windsor’s hand-tailored suits, shirts and ties…”
The notes feature gin, lime, pine, rose, orange, cedar and eucalyptus.
Creed Windsor is available in 50 ($450, in leather atomizer) or 250 ml (price unknown, in glass), and can be found at selected Saks Fifth Avenue stores or at the Creed website. (via creedboutique)
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great
but what about the notes?
They’re listed above (?)
Four hundred and fifty bucks for pine, juniper (gin), and rose and less leather than is on a belt?!? Yikes.
Creed charges $160 for the empty leather atomizers, although that still makes the juice extraordinarily expensive.
Hmmm, I actually like the sound of this one. Maybe I’ll see if my Saks lady can come up with a sample for me.
Good luck!
Sounds good to me too, and I do like (though wouldn’t pay for) those leather atomizers. Unless, of course, I became fabulously wealthy, and then I just might.
I like the leather cases Hermes makes for the Hermessences…don’t know if I’d buy one or not if I had the $.
The notes sound okay, but that is way beyond the new free for me to even consider anything more than a decant, which likely wouldn’t be a good idea since I’d probably like the stuff. :/ Seriously, Creed and Bond No. 9 really have it in for the wallet. I won’t deny Bond makes great perfumes (I haven’t tried any Creed) but I can’t help but think of how many bottles I could buy for the price of one little bottle of Windsor.
They aren’t budget lines, it’s true.
At that price, I guess that gin, lime, pine, rose, orange, cedar and eucalyptus is actually the smell of old money!
It sounds like it could be nice, but not being one of the legions of Creed fanboys, I passed this one right over when someone was doing a split. Creed generally doesn’t do a damn thing for me, but I’m glad someone apparently enjoys them.
I’ve wondered about that a bit myself. In general, the line has done little to get my interest, so I’ve actually only tried one scent (SMW). Even though I really liked that one, it didn’t wow me enough to make me pursue any others.
I feel like Creed is a status scent, right up there with Bond. I think the people who buy it just do so because they can. Personally, I really dislike Creed, just based on principle. I liked Fleurisimo, but for the price? None of them are worth it. They smell like sort of nice dimestore frags, nothing more.
I couldn’t agree more… I don’t merely dislike them on principle (heaven knows, I love even more expensive/statusy things, including some Bonds). Most Creeds just don’t smell well made to me — or maybe they’re just not to my taste, but it feels more like a quality issue. Many are very similar-smelling. I have decants of Rose Thé Bulgare and Silver Mountain Water, but several others smelled from merely nice to sort of off. I feel as if I’d like the women’s line much more than the men’s. In any case, I don’t understand the swooning cult following.
I know scads and scads of folks love dem some creeds, but for the most part they go “kind of iccky” on me. I did cave on a split of Sublime Vanille and luckily it’s pretty nice, however it’s not even close to knocking SDV , Ambre Narguile or Havana Vanille out of that covetted HG vanilla spot. So considering the price of this one, I’m going to give it a pass….and I’m going to laugh while I’m doing it.
Joe, there is a 7 page thread on Basenotes about this scent. So yeah, it’s got fans
Hi Joe! I went in on the split, will bring you some next time we have a Sniffa!
It’s really nice I’m afraid…
I don’t thinkg eucalyptus can grow in the UK as it is now. They must refer to Australia when it was still part of the British Empire. In 1936 I bet they could have grown pretty much anything they liked in their empire. The oranges must have come from Palestine, and the lime perhaps from India?
Yes. I removed the country designations from the list of notes because I thought it was silly, and probably misleading.
There are two Creeds that I am absolutely crazy about. Virgin Island Water (I know I know, so cliché, I’m sure) and Bois de Cédrat (apparently worn by Georges Braque! I study art history, so that scores points with me.)
But seriously, Bois de Cedrat is one of the most beautiful, refreshing citrus scents I’ve ever encountered (and that’s saying a lot in a world of fresh scents). If you haven’t smelled it, do give it a try next time you are near a Creed counter.
Of course, I’ve not been able to “afford” either of these in FB, though they are both on my to-buy list. The great thing is that Creed pre-packaged samples are very generous – 1.5 ml to 2ml? – so I’ve been able to sort of get by with them. But once the warm weather rolls around again, I’m sure I’ll be trying to work them into my budget.
Good luck saving those pennies!
Why slap me in the face, it’s a roll call of my favorite notes!
I actually mixed up a slurry of lime, orange, pine, rose, cedar and linool (mostly pine and rose – but no juniper on hand) several weeks ago in an attempt to create an “enchanted forest” scent, but I can’t say my creation was a masterpiece.
Dior’s Forever and Ever does something similar – they don’t list pine as a note, but I remember it as a big juicy rose with a coniferous drydown. Possibly a lower priced alternative.
Oh, your mix sounds fun though!
“Subtle,” huh? Edward VIII was definitely NOT subtle in his sartorial choices; his fashion sense was pretty wild for a guy, actually (mixing three kinds of plaid, for instance). Still, he was chic as all get-out, although perhaps not the brightest — or most morally aware — spark around.
Nitpicking (and astronomical price) aside, however, I’d love to sniff this one!
Hope you’ll get to then