Creed Original Vetiver

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

Creed Original Vetiver opens with Lemon and Green Notes; a heart of Ginger and Cypress; drying down to Vetiver and White Musk, from notes Creed Boutique (official) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, green, spicy, 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 Original Vetiver runs £220 at Creed as of this page's last update, though retailers set their own prices and change them; a real 5ml sample is $5.97.

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

Creed Jardin d'Amalfi (shares Green Notes, White Musk, Lemon); Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Bergamote Calabria (shares Green Notes, Ginger, White Musk); Al Haramain Gold Crystal Sapphire (shares Green Notes, White Musk, Lemon). These share specific notes with Original Vetiver, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Original Vetiver'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 Original Vetiver, and has its own page.

Original Vetiver reads as citrus, green, spicy, woody, musky. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Afnan 9 Am, Nishane Ani and Nishane Ani X nearby. We rank them by how many of Original Vetiver's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Original Vetiver, and each has its own page.