Air travel regulations limit the amount of liquids you may carry on board
Packing CREED for your next business trip or time-off getaway seems as natural as bringing your cufflinks or linen blazer. But with government restrictions on liquids in aircraft cabins, what’s the best way to bring CREED without having it confiscated and discarded by airport security?
For the travel enthusiast, CREED offers a selection of shatterproof, refillable, Italian leather-wrapped bottles (or atomizers) that can hold any of CREED’s more than 40 fragrances for men and women. Sized at 1.7 ounces, they are perfect for aircraft carry-on. In fact, one U.S. Olympic gold medalist is currently using this item so he can include CREED in his post-Olympic travel schedule that takes him to dozens of U.S. cities.
Typically, a 1.7-ounce CREED shatterproof travel bottle is purchased together with an 8.4 ounce decanter (or flacon) of CREED fragrance. Before departing on a trip, the shatterproof bottle is filled with fragrance poured from the decanter at home or by a CREED specialist at an authorized retailer. You’re then set to travel as the shatterproof bottle holds enough fragrance for weeks or even months.
CREED's 1.7 ounce leather atomizer
Like many items in the CREED line, CREED’s 1.7-ounce shatterproof travel bottles are widely imitated, but never duplicated. Counterfeits are plentiful, featuring defective sprayers, leaky canisters and artificial leather. So we advise clients to be sure to obtain the genuine article from an authorized CREED retailer: the CREED store at 794 Madison Avenue at 67th Street in New York, open seven days and reachable at 1-877-273-3344, www.creedboutique.com, Neiman Marcus (and www.neimanmarcus.com), Bergdorf Goodman (and www.bergdorfgoodman.com), select Saks Fifth Avenue stores, some Nordstrom’s stores, select Bloomingdale’s locations and in Canada, Holt Renfrew and Ogilvy.
Alternatives to CREED’s shatterproof bottles include carrying a one-ounce bottle of CREED — as some CREED fragrances, such as Love In White, Green Irish Tweed, Imperial Millesime and Silver Mountain Water are offered in a one-ounce size. Of course, one-ounce CREED bottles are made of glass by France’s fine Pochet glassworks, and with the rigors of travel, shattering is possible. This is why many travelers favor CREED’s shatterproof option.
Another possibility is to pack a CREED fragrance bottle of a larger size, for example, a 4-ounce bottle of CREED Tabarome or Royal Water, into your checked luggage. Many travelers do so. Yet given the tumult of baggage handling once the luggage leaves your hands, these CREED bottles by the Pochet glassworks may shatter as well.
A very attractive alternative is to bring along your favorite CREED fragrance in an alternative form, such as a hand-milled CREED soap in the beloved Spring Flower scent for women or CREED’s Himalaya soap for men — or by choosing one of CREED’s several non-alcohol stick deodorants that precisely match select CREED fragrances. All of these items are perfect at home, on the road or the gym.
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