This is a tricky one to wear, just like Creed, it’s not really for everyday wear unless you work at a fancy car dealership 😂. You'd have to be doing a side-by-side shootout to really pick up differences, so for most people it will work just as well as Aventus but is much cheaper. Only one L'Adventure I haven't liked of the 4 I've tried so far and that's the standard white version for men. I don't get pineapple at all, more like sweet orange with earthiness that I'm finding out is not one of my favorite scent profiles to wear. Opening smells okayish, somewhere around the Aventus vein, but it is all lost within an hour, drying down into a weird synthetic powdery leather type of smell.

There these kinds of perfumes are brought for expensive money to the man (tourists), the lady wanted to sell me her top seller for the equivalent of 120 euros, I was not allowed to test this but because she had no tester? The combination of lemon and bergamot does a good job and imitates Creed's pineapple note very well. Great alternative to Creed Aventus, longevity is not good as CDNIM LE or Afnan intense, maybe 5-6 hours, but scent is very high quality.Working for a while from home because of the C-word, finally we had to do some personal business together today and I said to him to bring over the bottle just to put a couple of sprays on me for ye olde times' sake. The texture of the patchouli is spot on to the patchouli in Aventus, while CDNI is a bit more brash. The only compliment i got is when i got in a car after spraying 2 times is “who sprayed dettol “ , overall solid performance but not my taste . I am pretty happy with longevity and silage, but I am not a great fan of the lemon note so I will not go for a full bottle.

But there's no point to it because in just a few minutes this will be gone and you'll only have the CDNIM.I have many frags from niche, designer, and dupes and my last batch of unsolicited compliments were Tom Ford Noir Extreme, Mancera Cedrat Boise Intense, Mancera Red Tobacco, ALT Stallion (Layton), ALT Mohair (Green Irish Tweed) and now today, L'Aventure. In my experience, its more mass appealing than CDNIM since it doesn't have the heavy birch tar note. Hope Al-Haramain doesn't/stops reformulating their fragrances, because I experienced some differences between batches, especially with L'Adventure Blanche (the Silver Mountain Water clone).