Excellsus First

Very similar to Aventus but not the same. And I do not care. Flavia Excellus has its own character, main note is sweet pineapple and with the rest of the notes is a masculine, warm, mid - sweet, woody, very nice fragrance with a very ok performance and a very good price!!

I received today this fragrance and I am about to test it. The first impression is very good. To me it's better than the famous Armaf Club De Nuit Intense Man because ti hasn't the harsh rotten lemon opening that characterizes that fragrance. I tried it on a paper strip almost 4 hours ago and still the perfume is strong ad very good. I will update my impressions in the future weeks; for now Flavia Excellus First seems a very good low cost fragrance, that has better performances than others way more expansive fragrances.

While this isn't a close clone of Creed Aventus, it does have some similarities. The pepper is quite prominent. I'd call this an Aventus twist, like a peppery, middle-eastern style Aventus inspiration. It's nothing special, and not much more than the $20 price tag. It's not even close to as good as CDNIM (the dry down) in matching the Aventus effect. I don't really see a need to own this when there are several good clones in the $20-$30 range out there.

i made an account literally just to review this. this is NOT creed aventus. the only semblance it has is the first 10mins, and even so its an extremely "screechy" synthetic citrus. it then develops into the smell of pure burnt leather, burnt wood, and tar. And unfortunately it has somewhat good performance and i had to wash it off with soap twice. i almost puked.