Shout out to @Ben E for putting me onto RDZ just got my 3rd bottle from them. Excited to try it out once my nose is back to normal. Also commandeered my wife’s shelf and moved hers to a smaller one to give me more room lol.

Having picked up a sample on Wednesday evening, I was stoked to try Wild Vetiver, the newest Creed release. I'm a sometime fan of Vetiver scents, and I love Grey Vetiver by Tom Ford for the fifteen minutes it lasts on my skin. First impressions of this are positive. The bergamot and pepper hits hard and bright, and this is a much fresher than I expected. It looks like Creed are finally out of their Goth Phase and have come stumbling back into the freshie light. The top notes are blended well and strike hard with good sillage; my wife could smell me coming, and she LOVES this opening. She prefers it to Virgin Island Water,which is her favourite fromthe house, so that's high praise indeed. Of course, the top notes don't hang around for long, and we dry down into a floral but masculine woodsy vetiver scent that is at once alluring and understated.There's a little powderiness, but it mixes with the pepper and presents spicy rather than dusty or musty, and the green underpinning of the vetiver helps the blend seem smooth and interesting. After four hours or so we're at skin scent stage, but it's a compelling skin scent that can still ambush out for a cheeky tickle now and then. The peppers from the opener do last into the final throes of the fragrance, which I definitley liked, and the Vetiver does everything you'd need or expect. I react VERY well to this. It's an awesome airy fruity green scent to start, and it mutates into a blossoming garden greeness before fading to an almost autimnal crispness with a spicy wood base. Is it full bottle worthy? I think it might be. I was firmly set on my neext Creed being Virgin Island Water, but now? I'm not so sure. Definitely recommended if you can get it on your skin.