Released in 1944, Bandit became the standard bearer for green chypre, leather feminine scents in the post-war era. Perfumer Germaine Cellier designed a scent that could withstand tobacco smoke without the heavy floral and animalic scents of the preceding decades. Bandit was for the new woman who stepped into the workplace when men were off fighting and who weren’t going back into the kitchen now that the war was over.
Read MoreThis 2011 release is a favorite of Creed fans as well as those looking for a refined cedar scent. Cedar, listed here as a heart note, is present throughout the relatively linear dry down. The galbanum and angelica lend different facets of very intense green incense, keeping this from getting too dry or falling too quickly into the creamier sandalwood/musk. If one ground pepper up finely enough and mixed it with dried bergamot and lemon zest, they may get a similar experience as we had with the opening of a 2020 decant of Royal Oud.
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