Creed · Aventus · EDP
Creed Aventus notes
Reviewed by Lucy Grant, co-owner and fragrance reviewer — 4 September 2026
What notes are in Creed Aventus?
Creed lists nine notes for Aventus: Calabrian bergamot, Sicilian lemon and blackcurrant leaf on top; pineapple, pink pepper and jasmine at the heart; birch, patchouli and musk at the base.
- Straight from Creed. These are the notes the house publishes itself, not a community database.
- Shorter than most lists. Creed names nine notes; popular pyramids add apple, rose and oakmoss.
- Birch carries it. Creed describes the birch as smoky and leathery, giving Aventus its structure.
- It is an EDP. Creed sells Aventus in 30, 50, 100, 240 and 490ml bottles.
Log the days you wear Aventus in Sentia and watch its cost per wear fall.
The pyramid
The three tiers, as Creed lists them
- HeadThe first minutes1/3
- Calabrian Bergamot
- Sicilian Lemon
- Blackcurrant Leaf Accord
- HeartOnce it settles2/3
- Pineapple Accord
- Pink Pepper
- Jasmine Accord
- BaseWhat is left hours later3/3
- Birch
- Patchouli
- Musk Accord
- Citrus2
- Fruit2
- Wood2
- Musk & leather1
- Floral1
- Spice1
Transcribed from Creed’s own product page, 4 September 2026.
The disagreement
Why this list is shorter than the one you have seen
Search for Aventus notes and you will usually find a longer pyramid. Those lists are community-compiled and have been added to for over fifteen years. Creed’s own page names nine notes, and that is what appears above.
Commonly listed elsewhere
- Apple
- Rose
- Oakmoss
- Ambergris
- Vanilla
Added by community databases over fifteen years. Creed names none of these.
What Creed publishes
- Nine notes
- Three tiers
- No apple, no rose
The list on this page, transcribed from the house’s own product page.
Neither list is a lie. A house publishes the notes it wants to name; noses detect things a marketing page never mentions. Where they differ, this page sides with Creed’s list, the one version anyone can go and check.
Notes are not the ingredients list
Directly below the notes, Creed prints something that looks similar and is not:
- Alcohol
- Parfum
- Limonene
- Water
- Linalool
- Citral
- Citronellol
That is the INCI declaration — a legal listing of solvents and named allergens, required on cosmetics sold in the EU and UK. It tells you nothing about how a fragrance smells.
Limonene is a citrus-derived compound that appears in a very large share of all perfume; it is on the label because a small number of people react to it, not because Aventus smells of it.
Do you actually wear it?
Knowing the notes is the easy part. What a notes list cannot tell you is how often this bottle actually leaves your shelf.
Sentia answers that with a tap on each day you wear it. The first 3 bottles on your shelf cost nothing, and pages like this one stay free to read.
Questions
Still wondering
- Why do other sites list more Aventus notes?
- Most note pyramids online are community-compiled and have accumulated additions over fifteen years. Creed's own product page lists nine notes. Where the two disagree, this page follows the house.
- Is blackcurrant the same as the apple note people describe in Aventus?
- No. Creed lists a blackcurrant leaf accord, not apple. The fruitiness most people notice is the pineapple accord in the heart, which Creed calls a signature of the fragrance.
- What is the difference between Aventus notes and its ingredients list?
- Notes describe what a fragrance smells of. The ingredients list is a legal declaration of allergens and solvents — for Aventus, Creed declares alcohol, parfum, limonene, water, linalool, citral and citronellol. They are not the same thing.
Aventus is already in Sentia’s catalogue with Creed’s own nine notes attached, ready to put on your shelf.