Reviews of Green Irish Tweed (1985)
by Creed

save yourself some money and buy a bottle of Cool Water. GIT is probably THE most overrated modern scent......there is nothing special, unique, or interesting about this scent at all. It's the equivelant to dumping Ragu spaghetti sauce into a gold dish and selling it for $50. worthless.

Smells like industrial strength cleaning agent with a hint of Mop N Glow to balance the composition out. Not green, just sour in a vulgar way, like the kind of stuff a 15 year old might wear. Not suitable for humans. It's very offensive. Save $250 and buy yourself a bottle of Pine Sol, then go to town.

Don't believe the hype. It will NOT turn you into a super-sexy all conquering love-god. It will make you smell like an ordinary, well-groomed, pleasant smelling member of the male masses. The people who say it garners compliments when wearing it will receive them from people who become aware of it, because it has quite strong sillage, and smells very 'fragrancey'. It is NOT unpleasant, but neither is it intriguing, different, characterful or individual. It smells extremely generic - a very typically male fragrance that you feel you have smelt somewhere before. It reminds me of the kind of fragrance you smell in a locker room applied by some typical stock broker type guy after a hard game of squash. A safe bet fragrance for men with little imagination. I'd even go as far as saying that it smells like a pleasantly fragranced deodourant. Disasterous when you think of how expensive it is! Now don't get me wrong. Though I'm not impressed by GIT, I am a BIG fan of other Creed scents. In fact, scents like SMW and Himalaya are the OPPOSITE of GIT. They are majestic in their high quality smell. They have an exclusive smell that really does seem fit for royalty. Others will bow to your superiority when you smell like a Prince. Wear GIT and they will slap you on the back as 'one of the guys.'

What a rip off, i like the smell but i put it on & the smell only lasted about 10 mins, has anyone else had the same effect, absolutly no lasting smell?

I'll be honest; I don't like this. It just isn't my genre. I didn't try it on my skin; it might do something magic there, but it would have to pull a rabbit out of a hat to make me want to wear it. I'm not getting any of the listed notes. Without looking, I thought it was ozonic. It was so airy, so intense, so persistent. I thought maybe it had a bit of lavendar or herbs. After I read the notes, I might agree with violet leaves, which are rather sharp and vegetal, but more salty in my opinion. This fragrance is so big and airy it's almost windy, or even watery. It's definitely masculine. I didn't enjoy it.

I have been lured by the name of the scent evoking something woody, fresh and old world. In fact, this is something salty, tacky and nauseous as an overripe fruit.
It has a note which I think is common to very commercial scents of today which is very strange given the very high quality and complexity of many Creed scents.
Love other green Creeds, Epicea, Cypres Musc and, especially, Original Vetiver are spectacular.

I've tried to like this one—I bought a bottle blind and I didn’t worry about my first response to it because I know it often takes me a while to warm up to a fragrance. Well, three years have come and gone and I’m still not warmed up. Looking at the pyramid, I feel that I should love it. I guess the problem is the violet leaves. In the opening I don’t smell any lemon or verbena—I get violet leaves and vetiver. In the middle notes I don’t get any Iris—I get violet leaves. I do not find this a pleasant violet smell; in fact it is a thin green-in-a-very-annoying-synthetic-way note. Only when the violet wears off, do I smell anything that I would call pleasant: The dry down is the typical Creed drydown, which is almost always quite satisfyingly impressive, but on my skin it also has the typical Creed lack of longevity, so everything about this scent eventually becomes a losing proposition. This was a rather expensive lesson and I hope I have learned from it. I gotta vote this one thumbs down.

This gets big kudos from most of Basenotes, so naturally my expectations were pretty high. I smelled it and laughed. It was like a weak Aspen..


It is just a okay green scent.. Way overhyped...

Wanting to climb up the ladder to the exclusive perfumes,I bought GIT based on the reviews and all the thumbs up. Honstly, I was utterly disappointed. The perfume disappears in a matter of 3-4 hours and needs at least 6-8 sprays to release the subtle notes of violet and ambergris.
I plan to buy SMW and Himalaya next, but, not without trying :)

I have little experience with Creeds so I'm willing to accept that my nose hasn't acclimated to this house's perculiarities. That said, however, I was nonplussed by GIT. It came across as so polite, so safe, so...boring. I had almost no reaction to it other than to find it completely and utterly inoffensive.

The "green" I got was like fresh green twigs and smoke. Or peatmoss being burned in a furnace on a foggy cold Sunday morning. The images I got from the scent were far more evocative than the actual scent itself. I think GIT must be the ultimately safety scent, perfect for business, meeting the parents, funerals, and weddings.

Why would you waste $200 on Green Irish Tweed, when you can get Cool Water for $28 on the internet. I suppose this line of fragrance is a mere status symbol and for those of us (I wish) who can just throw money away, like movie star and Royalty. Boy, doesn't Creed squeeze the $$$ out of those two groups. In my opinion, ALL Creed fragrances have an underlying note that is similar. These fragrances are just TOO highly priced, and besides what people on the street are going to notice the alleged more complex GIT than Cool Water. I bet if you took a poll, most people would prefer the Cool Water. Anyway, Creed apparently appeals to the wealthy, and Creed is gonna "milk" that segment of society for all it's worth. I betcha the ingredients in a bottle of GIT are only worth a couple of dollars and they're charging $200 for it. I'll stick to my Givenchy and Yves St. Laurent fragrances--they're way superior to Creed, in my opinion, that is. Also, I have noticed that most Creed fragrances have a "stale" note about them. Sorry, Creed, but in my opinion you're just a status symbol fragrance charging outlandish prices for fragrances that should cost no more than $40 a bottle. I would think people would cringe to think of spending $200 on a bottle of fragrance. In fact, every time I've worn a Creed fragrance I've NEVER gotten noticed or complimented. However, when I would wear any YSL or Givenchy fragrance (Insense, Kouros, Jazz, Givenchy Gentleman, Xeryus, YSL Haute Concentration PH, Opium, etc.), I ALWAYS get compliments. I would rather spend $200 on 6 bottles of Givenchy Gentleman than one bottle of ANY Creed fragrance. Oh, well, just my opinion, but Cool Water is just as good as GIT, if not better.

Badly over rated. I do not understand the cult of Creed. Expensive and stong smelling are the best you can say about GIT and most Creed scents.

I just can't get into GIT...I keep trying and it starts out nice enough and promising. But then it starts to overwhelm and I feel like I'm enveloped in some kind of industrial sanitizer or deodorant. It's definitely a quality scent and has staying power, but I just don't like the scent. Original Vetiver, SMW, MI and Tabarome Millesime are working much better for me. Bummer.

After reading all of the glorious praise in various threads, I anxiously awaited my precious parcel. Finally it had arrived. Like a little boy on Christmas morning, the package was disemboweled. Oh my God, just the site of it made me grin from ear to ear. I trembled...Be careful, remove the cap with the hands of a Saint as not to spill a drop of this rare Liqueur. FINALLY, I am going to smell the absolute nectar of the gods...the tears of Aphrodite herself. What do I do? How do I put it on?..Where? A little on my wrists, that will do it...and then the moment of moments, the one I'll remember like my wedding, my first born son, my Grandparents Golden anniversary...all wrapped up into one ceremonious moment..."The Moment of TRUTH"

What the hell? There MUST be some mistake...NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I got robbed, that dirty S.O.B. refilled the bottle with....Coolwater???? I accidentally bought that stuff years ago and tossed it in the trash a few days later. Oh No, it can't be true, but alas, it is true. The sharp, piercing opening notes remind my of toilet bowl cleaner, after 10 minutes a musty background emerges with a now stale cut lawn finally overtaking the bathroom cleaner. later the clumps of overgrown cut grass are rained upon, left to bake in the sun and then raked over the white mold and bacterial digestive secretions which finish this dime store paperback romance novel...aren't they all alike?

Very disappointing to say the least. The one positive thing I can say though is, it is multi-dimensional.

To me this is similar to Curve by Claiborne and not any more wearable. Nicely made scent, but not something I could ever wear.

The initial blast smells like that wheatgrass crap they sell at Jamba Juice. I have a strong dislike for that stuff so I guess you could say me and GIT got off on the wrong foot. Anyways, things didn't get much better. This is probably THE GREENEST scent I have ever smelled. It was so green in fact that I couldn't think of anything except grass. I really wanted to like this, because it was the first Creed I tried, and I think the history of Creed is fascinating. Unfortunately, I just couldn't come around. I really don't get the appeal of this scent, not to mention it didn't last very long. If you really have a thing for grass though, I guess this could be worth $100+ to you.

Couldn't wait to try it. Couldn't wait to wash it off. Way, way too sharp for me. Almost needle-like in it's attack.

The Baron de Charlus once told me: 'I recall the time when I was a house guest at the Highgrove estate of Charles, Prince of Wales (or "Chaz" as we used to call him in an effort to be friendly). He gave us each a bottle of Creed's Green Irish Tweed.
"One would like to know, de Charlus," said the Prince, "whether one approves of this fragrance which one has presented to one." "My dear Chaz," I replied wearily, "I fear that this blatant scent has very little to recommend it. When you consider the heights to which the House of Creed occasionally rises - I speak of Vintage Tabarome, Baie de Genievre, Acier Aluminium, Chevrefeuille Original, even of Cuir de Russie and Green Valley - then Green Irish Tweed groans with banality by comparison. It is obvious, vulgar and boring."
My words, alas, were wasted on the Prince, since he had already wandered off in the middle of my discourse to chat to his plants, embrace his lady wife, open a couple of factories, don a Rear-Admiral's uniform, and design at least three model villages, pausing only to inform everyone that the Baron de Charlus had very poor taste in scent.'

I don't see what all the fuss is about. As far as Creed scents go, this to me is one is among those of least quality and feels fairly common. It certainly is nicely made and blended, but when I put it on it just has this pungent quality to it that made me feel a little ill and I had to wash it off after a couple of hours. I wouldn't go so far as to call it 'rotting garbage' as another reviewer did, but I can certainly understand where that sentiment came from as there is a combination of sharp and sour notes in this that is just unpleasant to me and that I would certainly describe as a sour stench. I actually enjoy smelling it out of the bottle now and then but isn't something I can stand smelling like and I can't imagine I would like smelling it on anyone else either. Be a little more adventurous and try some of the lesser known Creeds (Bois du Portugal, Erolfa, Scottish Lavendar), they kill this one in terms of quality and elegance.

Smells like a high quality Curve for Men. I don't see what all the fuss is about. I absolutely HATE this stuff, and I love all the other Creed scents I've smelled.
The black bottle should be a warning. A Mister Yuck sticker on it would not be out of line either. I guess that's where the green in the name comes from...