Creed Viking

Mostly cool and green, like herbs crushed between your fingers. Underneath that, sharp and peppery, more like cracked pepper than baking spice.

It opens on pink pepper, peppermint and bergamot, moves through lavender, bulgarian rose and clove, and settles on vetiver, cedar and white musk.

• pink pepper: light rosy pepper that sparkles rather than burns
• bergamot: bright citrus peel, sharper and greener than orange. The note that makes Earl Grey tea smell the way it does

It lasts well and sits close to the skin after the first hour.

Built from the note listing and the measured performance figures. We have not smelled this one.