Green Irish Tweed

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History

Creed ties the scent to its tailoring past. Its official page refers to the couture heritage of Olivier Creed’s family. It also lists the colours of tweed: sea, wild waters, rocks, moss, heath, sky and rain.

The house cites a link with the Linton Tweed mill in Cumbria (United Kingdom), dating it to the 1920s. The name points to Ireland, the “Emerald Isle” of its marketing.

For years, Creed said the scent had been made for Cary Grant. The Perfume Society still repeats the story. Wikipedia notes that Creed’s advertising only linked the actor to the scent after his death in 1986.

Who made Green Irish Tweed?

Authorship is the most disputed point. Creed long presented Olivier Creed, the sixth generation of the family, as the nose behind its whole catalogue. Its product page, checked on 6 November 2026, names no perfumer.

Gear Patrol summed up the house position in 2024. Olivier Creed, it wrote, “made many believe he was the sole nose behind his brand’s vast catalog.”

In December 2021, American journalist Gabe Oppenheim published The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century (Solicitude). The book credits Pierre Bourdon with Green Irish Tweed. It also credits him with Silver Mountain Water, Millésime Impérial, Erolfa, Spring Flower, Original Santal and Fleurs de Bulgarie.

According to Oppenheim, Bourdon worked for Creed without credit from the early 1980s. He told the Fragroom blog in 2022 that Bourdon’s pay “consisted almost entirely (if not entirely-entirely) of bespoke suits from Olivier.”

Oppenheim adds that Michael Edwards and Luca Turin had already found that Bourdon “had a hand” in Green Irish Tweed. Jean-Christophe Hérault, Bourdon’s former student and the author of Aventus, confirmed the link to Gear Patrol in 2024: “The Creed house used to work with Pierre Bourdon, my mentor.”

Osmetheca therefore lists both attributions, as its Creed house page does: Olivier Creed per the house, Pierre Bourdon per the 2021 investigation.

The kinship with Cool Water (Davidoff, 1988), a Pierre Bourdon composition, runs through most readings. Wikipedia, drawing on Oppenheim’s book, calls Green Irish Tweed an early iteration of Cool Water. Perfume Shrine saw the same structure reused by Bourdon as early as 2013.

Fragrance notes

Creed publishes a three-tier pyramid on its UK page, checked on 6 November 2026. The house classifies the scent as “Aromatic Fougère, Green & Mossy Woods”.

This pyramid differs from the lists repeated by most competing pages, which include iris and ambergris. In 2013, Perfume Shrine placed iris at the top “as Creed lists it” and noted that geranium was missing from the official notes of the time.

The house does not say whether the gap reflects a reformulation or a rewritten list. Osmetheca follows the pyramid published today.

Scent profile

Green Irish Tweed’s scent profile follows the fougère family template. An aromatic, fresh top leads to a floral, herbal heart and a woody, mossy base. Per the house pyramid, peppermint and verbena open; lavender and violet hold the heart.

Its distinctive signature is greenness. In 2013, Perfume Shrine described a “bracing rush of green and citrus elements” followed by a classic fougère base.

Today’s base pairs sandalwood, cedarwood, Ambroxan and oakmoss. It explains why critics hear a link with Cool Water, released three years later.

“Pierre Bourdon’s compensation for creating Creed’s scents consisted almost entirely (if not entirely-entirely) of bespoke suits from Olivier.”Gabe Oppenheim, interview with Fragroom, 28 November 2022

Key characteristics

When and where to wear

Creed names no season or occasion. It calls the scent “as timeless as a sharp tailored suit”. Osmetheca has not tested Green Irish Tweed on skin.

The minty top and mossy base place it among the fresh fougères. It reads most naturally in daytime and in spring rather than in deep winter.

Similar perfumes

Five perfumes on Osmetheca put Green Irish Tweed in context, through the house, the fougère family or Pierre Bourdon’s hand.

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