Hello everyone,
I would like to preface this by saying that when it comes to "perfect" perfumes, I widely consider those perfumes which ride in the air well, and are not "overly heavy" to be closest to "perfect".
In my eyes, I widely regard the following four fragrances to achieve a 10/10 perfect score, based on their smell, uniqueness, and "airy factor" for me, with the third one being an exception.
1. Creed Aventus (2010-2013 era). Funny enough, Aventos (intentional spelling) translates to "with the wind".
2. Straight to Heaven (Any year, though the older are better and have an animalic kick which the newer lack). I think a lot of snobs like to hate on this one, but I love it. This is my signature scent.
3. Juniper Sling (Personally, I think Juniper Sling is widely regarded as a wimp by most of the enthusiast community, but it fits the "ride in the air" test well). To my nose, there is a smokey aspect of Juniper Sling which is a shadow of Creed's Aventus. But simply, it's very complex without putting on any posh act, and I would guess that its composition is rather simple.
4. 4160 Tuesdays Eau My Soul - In my eyes, this perfume is one of the best easy wearing sweet oriental spicy perfumes, without being overbearing. I think it has a shadow of O'Hira and Jubilation Man by Amouage in it, but those are way too heavy and lack the class of EMS. Luca Turin had the audacity to give Eau My Soul 4/5 stars. I think it deserved a fifth.
5. Santal 26 (the candle) I think this sweeter cousin of Pickle 33 is the best iteration because of how it rides in the air and it is not as blatant as its popular NYC cousin.
My introduction to Aventus was some time in 2011 where my closest friend had a bottle and I smelled it. It smelled sharp, piney, smokey, fruity. I was enthralled, but I was a mere college student with <10k CAD in savings. From there, I was reunited with Aventus in 2015 when I flew to meet a friend from my back home in a western Canadian city. He wore a 2012 batch of Aventus and it was that same WOW. In 2017 I managed to get a bottle of 2016 Aventus from Costco and it was underwhelming, it smelled completely different. It lacked the smoke, pine, airy sweetness of the Aventus I knew.
While a plethora of people consider Birch to be the note to blame, I believe a lot was removed and replaced from Aventus. the 2010-2013 Aventus samples and bottles that I ended up acquiring contain a distinct sweetness within the smokeyness and I refuse to believe just Birch was removed.
So now, many years after my first encounter with Aventus, I have begun my journey to chemically reconstruct every player in the Aventus formula to the best of my ability. With the help of a chemist I have run a positive and negative ion LCMS of Aventus. but because we are dealing with perfume the friend has also conducted a UV scan of the juice to discern the lipophilicity and hydrophilicity of the composition.
From this point, I am going to scan online for reliable posts and people to find a list of molecule candidates for Aventus, to slowly fit my jigsaw puzzle and buy small amounts of each molecule to also run an LCMS on.
I may end up purchasing some completed analyses, but those are typically only available for post 2014 batches, which would solve some of the puzzle, but not all.
I will use the reply to this as a sort of data warehouse for all molecules I find. Of course, any help is appreciated, but I am doing this more for my own passion and as a "project".
I would like to preface this by saying that when it comes to "perfect" perfumes, I widely consider those perfumes which ride in the air well, and are not "overly heavy" to be closest to "perfect".
In my eyes, I widely regard the following four fragrances to achieve a 10/10 perfect score, based on their smell, uniqueness, and "airy factor" for me, with the third one being an exception.
1. Creed Aventus (2010-2013 era). Funny enough, Aventos (intentional spelling) translates to "with the wind".
2. Straight to Heaven (Any year, though the older are better and have an animalic kick which the newer lack). I think a lot of snobs like to hate on this one, but I love it. This is my signature scent.
3. Juniper Sling (Personally, I think Juniper Sling is widely regarded as a wimp by most of the enthusiast community, but it fits the "ride in the air" test well). To my nose, there is a smokey aspect of Juniper Sling which is a shadow of Creed's Aventus. But simply, it's very complex without putting on any posh act, and I would guess that its composition is rather simple.
4. 4160 Tuesdays Eau My Soul - In my eyes, this perfume is one of the best easy wearing sweet oriental spicy perfumes, without being overbearing. I think it has a shadow of O'Hira and Jubilation Man by Amouage in it, but those are way too heavy and lack the class of EMS. Luca Turin had the audacity to give Eau My Soul 4/5 stars. I think it deserved a fifth.
5. Santal 26 (the candle) I think this sweeter cousin of Pickle 33 is the best iteration because of how it rides in the air and it is not as blatant as its popular NYC cousin.
My introduction to Aventus was some time in 2011 where my closest friend had a bottle and I smelled it. It smelled sharp, piney, smokey, fruity. I was enthralled, but I was a mere college student with <10k CAD in savings. From there, I was reunited with Aventus in 2015 when I flew to meet a friend from my back home in a western Canadian city. He wore a 2012 batch of Aventus and it was that same WOW. In 2017 I managed to get a bottle of 2016 Aventus from Costco and it was underwhelming, it smelled completely different. It lacked the smoke, pine, airy sweetness of the Aventus I knew.
While a plethora of people consider Birch to be the note to blame, I believe a lot was removed and replaced from Aventus. the 2010-2013 Aventus samples and bottles that I ended up acquiring contain a distinct sweetness within the smokeyness and I refuse to believe just Birch was removed.
So now, many years after my first encounter with Aventus, I have begun my journey to chemically reconstruct every player in the Aventus formula to the best of my ability. With the help of a chemist I have run a positive and negative ion LCMS of Aventus. but because we are dealing with perfume the friend has also conducted a UV scan of the juice to discern the lipophilicity and hydrophilicity of the composition.
From this point, I am going to scan online for reliable posts and people to find a list of molecule candidates for Aventus, to slowly fit my jigsaw puzzle and buy small amounts of each molecule to also run an LCMS on.
I may end up purchasing some completed analyses, but those are typically only available for post 2014 batches, which would solve some of the puzzle, but not all.
I will use the reply to this as a sort of data warehouse for all molecules I find. Of course, any help is appreciated, but I am doing this more for my own passion and as a "project".