Welcome to CREED’s official blog for the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, an experimental project for CREED’s 250th anniversary year.  Thank you very much for visiting.  We look forward to using this space to provide information on a range of topics our clients inquire about as well as posting other CREED news and information you will find useful.

CREED flacons get a final inspection by Erwin CREED before shipping to the US from France.

Today we thought we would start with the question, “What is a Millesime”?  It’s a great question we hear frequently.

The word “millesime”, of course, appears on many CREED fragrance bottles, such as Royal Water, Tabarome or Imperial Millesime.  The “millesime” designation means that the best crops from a particular year’s harvest — be it bergamot from Sicily or lemon from Calabria — were used in the creation of that particular bottle of CREED fragrance.  It is a mark of quality.

This raises a related question: Does CREED use 100% natural ingredients in its fragrances?  This is a great query as the CREED family, based in France, takes enormous pride in each year selecting the best natural ingredients for their creations.  Sixth-generation master perfumer Olivier CREED and his son, Erwin, travel to Bulgaria to meet rose growers, Parma to meet cultivators of violets, India to meet sandalwood foresters — indeed, they travel the globe — to personally inspect annual crops and choose the most fragrant for shipment to the CREED workshop in the French countryside.  (more…)