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expiredpowerfuldoppler | Staff posted Dec 07, 2024 08:17 AM

Costco Members: 3.3-Oz Creed Aventus Eau de Parfum Men's Fragrance

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Costco Wholesale has for their Members: 3.3-Oz Creed Aventus Eau de Parfum Men's Fragrance on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Editor powerfuldoppler for finding this deal.

Fragrance Notes:
  • Top: Apple, Blackcurrant, Pink Pepper, Bergamot
  • Middle: Jasmine, Pineapple, Patchouli
  • Base: Oakmoss, Cedarwood, Birch, Ambroxan

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Written by oceanlake
  • About this Deal:
  • About this Product:
    • Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars at Costco based on over 2,500 customer reviews.
  • About this Store:
    • If you don't have a Costco Warehouse Membership, you can sign-up here
    • You can view Costco's return policy here.
  • Additional Notes:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Costco Wholesale has for their Members: 3.3-Oz Creed Aventus Eau de Parfum Men's Fragrance on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Editor powerfuldoppler for finding this deal.

Fragrance Notes:
  • Top: Apple, Blackcurrant, Pink Pepper, Bergamot
  • Middle: Jasmine, Pineapple, Patchouli
  • Base: Oakmoss, Cedarwood, Birch, Ambroxan

Editor's Notes

Written by oceanlake
  • About this Deal:
  • About this Product:
    • Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars at Costco based on over 2,500 customer reviews.
  • About this Store:
    • If you don't have a Costco Warehouse Membership, you can sign-up here
    • You can view Costco's return policy here.
  • Additional Notes:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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razer145
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I know people are going to jump in with their hate toward expensive colognes, but this is the best price I've ever seen for Aventus. We get it, you prefer $12 Amazon scents, and that's perfectly fine, but just as some people buy designer clothes when $3 boxers will do the trick, some people enjoy more expensive scents. Both are fine, stop projecting.
Ralre
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Can it take me higher?
leonxl
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what's your source of this being watered down? Did you test a current and previous version side by side?

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In for 2! Thanks OP!
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Quote from balla123 :
Which is the Amazon one
Ode de toilet - brown note
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Quote from razer145 :
I know people are going to jump in with their hate toward expensive colognes, but this is the best price I've ever seen for Aventus. We get it, you prefer $12 Amazon scents, and that's perfectly fine, but just as some people buy designer clothes when $3 boxers will do the trick, some people enjoy more expensive scents. Both are fine, stop projecting.
it is corporate owned and mass produced much like any designer fragrance. They also historically don't credit the perfumers that work on their lines, falsified a history of their family members being master perfumers, and many fragrances are literally based on designer scents. It finally came out in the Ghost Perfumer that GIT and Cool Water smell so similar because per Bourdon literally created both based on the same formulation with minor changes. He was also responsible for most of their other success for a couple decades, never with proper credit. Herault has never gotten full credit for Aventus itself because Erwin and Olivier Creed are allergic to honesty and integrity. Meanwhile explorer, l'aventure, cdnm, supremacy silver, PE America, and about a thousand others have copied Aventus because creed don't actually use naturals like ambergris, oud, etc like they claimed, so it's trivial to replicate most of their line.

Personal fragrance in general is fairly onerous in the pricing regime as the scents are primarily developed by oil houses with perfumers widely pushed to develop new creations based on proprietary aromachemicals their employer controls through trade dress. Room sprays, detergents, candles, etc are literally scented with the same chemicals because the same fragrance and flavor businesses develop the majority of them. Markup over the cost of the scent compounds in a bottle is generally around seven times and up for department store brands, and is only worsened when powerhouses in the space like LV or L'Oreal pump it even higher based on the false cache of the slapped-on names of their equally mass produced clothing and accessories.

Anyone flexing with expensive toilet water from Costco of all places really needs to relax.
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Quote from razer145 :
I know people are going to jump in with their hate toward expensive colognes, but this is the best price I've ever seen for Aventus. We get it, you prefer $12 Amazon scents, and that's perfectly fine, but just as some people buy designer clothes when $3 boxers will do the trick, some people enjoy more expensive scents. Both are fine, stop projecting.
I love expensive colognes -- lots of great houses and scents out there that are much more expensive than Aventus. Lots of dudes also love Aventus, so I don't think that's the problem here. While newer batches are a little better, anything from Creed over the past few years have just been pretty weak in the longevity to the point that people go for the clones for the fact that some of them just last longer. Creed also has some consistency issues with their fragrances shifting a bit from batch to batch. With that said, this is a great price if you're wanting the original.

A lot of the clones really aren't that close, they'll get 'in the ballpark' of the originals (scent wise) but generally you'll be able to tell the difference from a higher (priced) fragrance and the dupes. I own a lot of the originals of scents and have a decent collection of 'dupes' and feel that much of the hype towards them are just people trying to justify their purchase.
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Thanks OP!
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Can confirm. New batches do not have the same strength nor duration as previous years... don't blind buy.
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Quote from KhurramQ :
The new batches only last a hour with over 10 sprays and I have 150 fragrances in my collection.
You're spraying 10 sprays of Aventus ?! Nose blind much?
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Waiting for the tariffs shill to tell you it will be 5x the cost next year.
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ugabugaDec 07, 2024 03:10 PM
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Great scent that over the last decade has been reformulated to death. Newer batches are reported to be weak with little projection and lasting power.

Very popular and cloned a million times so won't be unique smelling as it's DNA can be smelled all the time.

Great price though if you want to add it to the collection.
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xo151Dec 07, 2024 03:15 PM
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Ordered! Going to return the one I bought (still unopened) for $270 earlier in the year. Thanks OP!
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Quote from Smyrhna :
Lowest Ever. Should be FP by morning.
I got mine 5+ years ago with some Walgreens or CVS deal for like $120
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ewjacoDec 07, 2024 03:18 PM
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Creed is dead to me. I prefer Rocky anyway.
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patgwashereDec 07, 2024 03:19 PM
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Armaf has their club de nuit intense man usually around $30.
It is a knockoff of this cologne.
Most people say it is exactly like it and also lasts longer.
I have it and love it

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Quote from asifgunz :
Lemme save you 80% of the cost , and far better performance. Afnan Supremacy Not only Intense. And if you're feeling lucky, Armaf CDNIM (there are several, you want EDP).
Zara Vibrant Leather is another cheap alternative. Smells almost identical to my Aventus 21N01.
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