Creed Love In Black

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

Creed Love In Black opens with Violet Leaf, Raspberry and Cranberry; a heart of Rose, Violet, Orris and Jasmine; drying down to Cedar and Musk, from notes Creed Boutique (Official) publishes. Those notes read as floral, fruity, spicy, powdery, woody, musky, 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 Love In Black runs £275 at Creed as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them; the "smells-like" alternatives start around $12.95.

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

Creed Love In Black is listed as a women's fragrance by the retailer. That's a marketing label, not a rule: fragrance has no gender, and plenty of "women's" scents are worn by anyone. We show how it's sold and leave the wearing to you.

Unbranded Love In Black is the alternative we list first for Love In Black, ranked on shared cited accords then price, at $12.95 against £275 for the genuine bottle. Most alternative houses publish no scent profile of their own, so for those we show the original's cited accords rather than claim an independently verified match. It's meant to evoke Love In Black, not replicate it, so we link the real bottle first and let you judge for yourself.

Creed Fleurissimo (shares Violet Leaf, Orris, Cedar); Armaf Club De Nuit Sillage (shares Violet Leaf, Cedar, Rose); Roja Parfums Elysium Eau Intense (shares Violet Leaf, Cedar, Rose). These share specific notes with Love In Black, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Love In Black'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 Love In Black, and has its own page.

Love In Black reads as floral, fruity, spicy, powdery, woody, musky. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Tiziana Terenzi Afrodite, Rasasi Hawas Diva and Mancera Juicy Flowers nearby. We rank them by how many of Love In Black's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Love In Black, and each has its own page.