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Slejelfanyday – :
“Smells like The Creature has brushed its teeth!” so said a co-worker.
Yes, that’s exactly right.
PASS! (I don’t like mint perfumes, yech.)
igor-9808 – :
From the website of Kerosene, this is going to be discontinued on October 31.
Rambo – :
Strange and wonderful perfume from the nether regions of a fantastic imagination! Green camphorous mist . . . a mentholated, sinus clearing opening blast from the dark abyss. Then mint, like plucked leaves, a fresh memento of a sunlit world. Next, an underlying supporting haylike accord from the tea mix – as if the path to and from the Styx was strewn with with harrowed chaff. The name, Creature, is so evocative of something unique and unreal . . . fitting for this very different fragrance from the underworld of niche fantasy!
rasum – :
Well if you’ve always wanted to smell like you just smeared an entire tube of Colgate toothpaste all over you, this is the fragrance for you.
Definite pass for me.
moose1ya – :
This gets disliked by the majority and I am with them. Big huge mint opening with enormous sillage greatly dies down within an hour to a skin scent. A few other notes are mixed in but it’s primarily mint/menthol. The best mint scent IMO is Dirty by Lush.
I would guess for those that say it lasts over 12 hours and has enormous sillage most likely washed it off within 30 minutes. It’s a skin scent after the 1st hour or so but does lasts a few more hours after that and sillage is soft.
The standouts for me from Kerosene are Fields of Rubus and Copper Skies but kudos for Mr. Pegg going all out and trying new things.
Николидзе – :
Woow… that’s minty menthol, firstly i thought of the ice melting away after a harsh autumn with it’s cooling breeze and superbly springy, then it went harshly menthol minty. Ice mint is what i am getting the first 5 minutes so far quite greeny, fresh and cold.
surprisingly, this house amazes me somehow with it’s unique’s creations.
Sergius834 – :
Whoa..the opening of this is weird. This has a real menthol/minty/eucalyptus thing going on that tingles your nose. It smells cool and green but not something I would consider “fragrance” or..something I’d like to smell like all day. I definitely appreciate how different it is. An effervescent kinda feel from the fresher notes too.
This lasts about 30 mins and then it changes. It turns much woodier, drier and the cypress/piney tones start to come through. This smells like a wooded transparent blend and much calmer. Thankfully the antiseptic opening calms down.
It’s more masculine I think and deffo not in the “pretty” category. I cannot smell any patchouli or floral in this, it’s all about the greenery and authentic woody tones.
Not something I would purchase but, definitely an experience. 🙂
Effefsneulave – :
Since I already love Black Vines, and I like Fields of Rubus, I thought I would like Creature, too, but I was wrong. Creature isn’t bad, it just smells flat, and empty, and doesn’t seem to breathe. It reminds me of a child’s cold, plastic toy. Yes, a toy “creature”, made from scented, lime-green neon plastic. I can’t imagine an adult paying a very adult price for this.
Chernov_georgij – :
A fragrance with distinct stages and pretty good note separation. The quality of materials is fairly high. Despite that, Creature opens with an unpleasant accord of naked wintergreen (more likely spearmint) oil, and for about fifteen minutes it smells like toothpaste. I had someone smell it on me, and her immediate reaction was, “antiseptic.” There’s little doubt that this is an unsuccessful top note, although if you like the smell of Aquafresh, Creature might be up your alley.
About thirty minutes into the drydown the woodier notes emerge, and Creature improves. Cedar and birch jump out at me first, and the greenness of the mint transitions into a subtle tea note, which smells very nice. I detect a small amount of patchouli upholding these elements, which balances them very well. Fairly rapidly thereafter the fragrance’s woody notes recede, and the tea strengthens, along with violet leaf (the watery variety, not the peppery-metallic kind). The violet leaf seems to bolster the tea note, making it feel like the primary note.
Next there’s an emergence of fir notes, presumably the cypress and perhaps a bit of the oakmoss. We’re going from tea and violet leaf to cypress and moss in all of ten minutes – there seems to be high volatility here. Still, the tea hangs in, now more in the background. In the base is a piney moss, very demure and green. There’s signs the patchouli oil is still at work also, and again, that helps the balance, keeping Creature from becoming too monochrome.
It’s an interesting, skillful trajectory, marred only by an unpleasant attempt at mint on top. I can’t see paying Kerosene’s prices for a bottle of this (feels more like an $80 perfume to me), and it’s not as though there is anything happening here that you can’t get from something like Jazz by YSL, or Tsar by VC&A, or even Polo by RL. From its early heart phase to its drydown, Creature feels like a high quality designer perfume with a novel approach to the woody-green aromatic genre, especially with its use of sage and hedione (the aforementioned fragrances are great company to be in). Knowing what I know about John Pegg and the fact that he is a self-taught perfumer, it’s puzzling to think that no one winced and said “toothpaste” when they smelled the first few minutes of his final draft of Creature. But maybe I just don’t get that top note. Perhaps it was meant to be edgy.
In any event, I don’t like it, I don’t think it smells good, but this is a fragrance well worth trying.
kuzenok111 – :
Just got my sample. From the initial minor spray I gave my arm, it’s definitely quite like Cartier Roadster, in the sense that it gives you that minty kick in the face. I would, however, consider it more spearmint than wintergreen, and a combination of the notes pulls the spearmint towards a sweeter territory rather than a sour mint like winterfresh. I almost detect a hint of vanilla with the spearmint. Will update more as I give it a full-on wear for the day, but from the initial spray, I definitely don’t find anything cloying about it, no pungency, nothing. Perhaps it is not for sensitive noses, but I have confidence in mine, and so far, I enjoy what little I sprayed.
glileafen – :
The opening of this aptly named creation, Kerosene Creature, offers a big blast of unmistakeable wintergreen. It’s not spearmint; it’s not peppermint. It’s wintergreen, as in wintergreen Lifesavers!
Shortly thereafter the truth emerges: a green reptilic creature inhabiting a swamp has been trying to mask his bad breath with wintergreen Lifesavers! Once they wear off, all that’s left is the dark green scent of the swamp in which he lives. His hot, humid breath is suffused with the scent of damp moss, mushrooms, and soggy wood.
Probably this is a composition which works on some people’s skin. I do not number among them. By the drydown, I smell a scent empirically indistinguishable from mildew. Désolée.
baraban828 – :
Wow, this is mouthwash indeed, probably the mintiest scent I’ve tried ever, but unfortunately not wearable or likable for me at all.
So basically what I get from the opening is pure mouthwash smell, very medical, fresh and boozy.
I did wait for a while before washing this off for something else to appear, but unfortunately for me – the same situation as with the previous reviewer, it does not get away from smelling like a mouthwash. And why would I want my skin to smell like this?
irishakubrak – :
I’m really sorry Kerosene but all i get is Listerine for 30 minutes and then it kind of disappears. Will continue to try others from this house though!
Dreantark – :
Green is right, and not the synthetic unconvincing ‘green’ you get from most supposedly green frags. Maybe too convincing for me; I got a similar jarring whallop of moss from a vintage sample of Mitsouko. Then I was sure I got pond, wet lichen– not dirt or rot… but I could almost hear the frogs. I have to hand it to Kerosene, this is a sensory trip in a bottle, something that refuses to sit politely in the background. I like a green that is reviving, but this is disconcerting. I’ve read descriptions of greens like Ma Griffe as ‘menacing’ or ‘the wire mother’ etc but ‘Creature’ is the first one I’ve smelled that deserved such.
However, while this one of his line might not be for me, it does make me want to try the others. Apparently the MiN store doesn’t offer a flight of Kerosene samples online anymore, but I did get a sample of Creature from theperfumedcourt.com so next time I order something, I figure it’s worth the extra few bucks to sample some of his other frags.
sidorovff – :
I sampled this fragrance while visiting MiN in New York City. This is an extremely green scent that manages to bring the woods into a bottle. Yet, it’s got an interesting acidic edge which gives it a distinctly ‘smudgy’ feel. Creature made me think of fingerprints, turtles, elm strees, wild grape leaves and squirrels, and just a bit of the camphor you remember as a child: A walk in the woods, but more like the woods that you’d find in a park in the middle of large urban city.
This is distinctly niche, and best for adventurous smellers; far from being a pretty green, it has a certain vibe that really appeals to the child in me. This might be the kind of scent a kid would make if he were allowed to mess around in a lab. Science experiments, grass and dirt, and intrinsic happiness.
tabv36 – :
Well, I wish I got more oakmoss out of this one.
I think Kerosene is a helluva guy, and he’s quite creative as well. Creature is one of the most unique fragrances I’ve ever smelled, but it’s not my thing. On my skin, the elements clash and don’t go well together. There’s A LOT of mint here – almost to the point of “toothpastey”, if you’ll excuse me for lack of a better term. However, that’s not totally bad. The mint combines with the birch to create a wintergreen sort of smell, and wintergreen is one of my favorite smells/flavors. It’s like spearmint with a birch/root beer twist to it. The other thing going on here, I don’t know why, is a leather/suede note, like a fine leather purse or the seats in a nice car. It smells like a realistic leather, but it doesn’t blend well with the elements. Perhaps it’s the birch creating this illusion (rectified birch tar was a major source of “leather” notes in classical perfumery), maybe it’s a combination of that with the violet leaf, who knows. Regardless, I find Creature to be a unique composition with good raw materials, but they clash and fall apart on my skin. Oh well. The longevity and sillage are excellent.
You may very well like this, but just to be safe, try before you buy!
zalavandrrr – :
This will be my go to fragrance come two months from now. This is Riverside Drive from Bond, meets Roadster, meets 212. It is fresh without being redundant, it is green without the full onslaught of cut gress, it is minty without the tootpaste in the back of the throat feeling.
This starts off with a green jasmine with mint and citrus, you may think it is going to go the way of all the run of the mill fresh scents, but within 5 minutes you know better. The greeness begins to get deeper, almost forest green, the mint picks it up and gets a little sharper, the lemon starts to take a back road and then the scent becomes a bit woodier and a lot thicker, I think the patchouli may be giving it some denseness with the oakmoss.
From the initial spray to the heart notes doesn’t take long, and what you have is what you get, the main difference is that each note plays well with the others and it is so well blended you almost feel like you are wrapped in spring. Think of being in a the greenest of valleys on the perfect spring day.
The only notes that I really cant pick out are the patchouli, tea and sage, I am not saying they are not there they may be well blended. This is anoter winner if you are a fan of green scents you need to look no further. The question may be the price point, but I would put this next to Bond’s Central Park and Riverside drive and I think this would be the more complex scent.
You have to give this scent a sniff. It is gorgeous!