Creed Viking Cologne

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

Creed Viking Cologne opens with Bergamot, Lemon, Mandarin and Pink Pepper; a heart of Geranium, Lavender, Nutmeg, Rosemary and Sage; drying down to Sandalwood, Incense, Patchouli, Cedar and Vetiver, from notes Creed Boutique (official) publishes. Those notes read as citrus, aromatic, spicy, woody, smoky, 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 Viking Cologne 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 $5.99; the "smells-like" alternatives start around $12.95.

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

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

Unbranded Creed Viking is the alternative we list first for Viking Cologne, ranked on shared cited accords then price, at $12.95 against £220 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 Viking Cologne, not replicate it, so we link the real bottle first and let you judge for yourself.

Yes. We also cover Viking, each with its own page. Concentration changes the strength and often the balance of the scent, so we list the versions separately.

Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir (shares Rosemary, Geranium, Lemon); Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision (shares Rosemary, Sage, Geranium); Amouage Reflection 45 (shares Sage, Incense, Pink Pepper). These share specific notes with Viking Cologne, a closer match than a shared accord family. We rank them by how many of Viking Cologne'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 Viking Cologne, and has its own page.

Viking Cologne reads as citrus, aromatic, spicy, woody, smoky. If that's the corner you like, you'll find Roja Parfums Elysium Noir Pour Homme, Versace Eros Najim and Xerjoff Louis Xv De Venoge nearby. We rank them by how many of Viking Cologne's cited accords they actually share, weighting rarer families heavier. They're their own fragrances, not copies of Viking Cologne, and each has its own page.