Creed Delphinus

You can buy the genuine Creed Delphinus straight from Creed. The real bottle comes first; the accessible alternatives below are there if you'd rather spend less.

Creed Delphinus opens with Pepper, Incense, Almond and Pink Pepper; a heart of Heliotrope, Orchid and Orris; drying down to Patchouli, Tonka Bean, Ambroxan, Leather and Vanilla, from notes Creed Boutique (official) publishes. Those notes read as floral, powdery, spicy, sweet, amber, woody, the coarse families Creed Boutique (official) cites. How it wears depends on your skin and the concentration. We only publish notes and accords we can trace to a source.

The genuine Creed Delphinus runs £235 at Creed as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them; a real 5ml sample is $9.99.

We rank the "smells-like" alternatives to Delphinus by how closely their cited accords match the original, cheapest first. A dupe is meant to evoke Delphinus, not match its formula, and we say as much. If we can't verify a genuine match yet, we leave it off.

Creed Delphinus is listed as unisex, marketed for anyone, which is how we'd wear it too. Fragrance has no inherent gender; the label just reflects how the retailer sells it.

Creed Centaurus (shares Heliotrope, Ambroxan, Tonka Bean); Armaf Club De Nuit Precieux 1 (shares Pepper, Ambroxan, Leather); Amouage Reflection 45 (shares Orris, Incense, Tonka Bean). These share specific notes with Delphinus, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Delphinus's cited notes they actually share, weighting rarer notes heavier than ubiquitous ones. Each is its own fragrance with real, sourced notes, not a copy of Delphinus, and has its own page.

Delphinus reads as floral, powdery, spicy, sweet, amber, woody. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Liquides Imaginaires Lunatique, Mancera Deep Forest and Xerjoff Louis Xv De Venoge nearby. We rank them by how many of Delphinus's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Delphinus, and each has its own page.