Creed’s Windsor Fragrance: Scent of Empire for Kings and Commoners
8 January 2010 | By Anna Rudenko
Now you can smell the fragrance created especially for the kings. The Creed of Paris group, founded in 1760, decided to give its exclusive perfumes made for King Edward VIII in 1936 to common public. The limited Windsor edition includes only 320 bottles that can be purchased in the U.S. at the price of $400 and 70 flacons.
The scent has a rich palette of subtle aromas and is manufactured from ingredients, which were grown in the British Empire. This new perfume is a kind of retro trip made over the colonies, which King Edward ruled for just 10 months. He abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorced American, and so became the Duke of Windsor. As any noble man he had an exquisite taste and preferred only the best scents fitting his status.
The composition of the perfume consists of a number of notes including British gin, Jamaican lime, Scottish highland pine, Nuits de Young roses, Bahamian orange, Canadian cedar and Australian eucalyptus. The design of 1.7 oz. leather-wrapped bottles, which are numbered by laser and signed by sixth-generation master perfumer Olivier Creed, is stylish and full of dignity. “Royalty need not shout,” the Duke used to say, and the new fragrance surely embodies his philosophy.
