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CHEZ PIERRE

Feels Like Summer

Feels Like Summer

Inspired by Virgin Island Water, Creed

50 ml glass bottle (Eau de Parfum)

9.300 Ft
127.700 Ft 9.300 Ft
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Inspired by: Virgin Island Water, Creed
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PRODUCT DETAILS

Feels Like Summer is an eau de parfum, 50 ml, made with roughly 20% fragrance oil, handmade in small batches, vegan and cruelty free. It costs €25, the same across our whole dupe range, whatever fragrance the original happens to be. Free shipping kicks in from €49, and delivery normally takes 2 to 5 working days from the day the order ships. The same delivery window applies whatever is in the basket.

Creed sells Virgin Island Water as an eau de parfum and ours matches that, so this is not a thin summer spray that gives up within the hour but a fragrance built to last past the opening. It is still fresh and citrus-led, though, so it sits closer to the skin than our heavier, woodier fragrances. That is the style rather than a shortcoming: more musk in the base would push it further, but we kept the fragrance light on purpose to stay close to the original.

You have 15 days to exchange Feels Like Summer if it misses the mark.

NOTES

Top notes

Lime, coconut, mandarin, bergamot

Heart notes

Ginger, jasmine, ylang ylang, hibiscus

Base notes

Musk, sugar cane, rum

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Feels Like Summer is our perfume dupe of Creed Virgin Island Water, one of the brighter fragrances we bottle and made for anyone who wants the beach-holiday feeling without waiting for an actual holiday. It opens on lime, coconut, mandarin and bergamot, moves into ginger, jasmine, ylang ylang and hibiscus in a heart some lists file under middle notes, then rests on musk, sugar cane and rum.

The coconut and lime pairing is what defines it, sharp and salty rather than sweet, closer to sun cream and sea air than to dessert. The rum and the faint cane-sugar sweetness only show up once the fruit has settled, and they give the drydown a warmth that keeps it from feeling like a one-note fresh spray. By then it smells like a full fragrance rather than a straight citrus splash, close to how the original wears once its opening notes fade.

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Perfume concentration

EDT, EDP or EXDP - what you are actually buying

The difference between these labels is not quality but how much perfume oil sits in the bottle. That decides how long the scent stays on your skin and how far it travels.

EDT Eau de Toilette 5 to 15% perfume oil

The lightest of the three. It opens fresh and fast, but fades after three to five hours. Pleasant in heat and at the office, as long as you top it up during the day.

Our choiceEDP Eau de Parfum ~20% perfume oil

The middle ground that became the standard. It lasts six to eight hours, one spray in the morning is enough, and the scent stays recognisable into the evening without filling the room.

EXDP Extrait de Parfum 20 to 40% perfume oil

The densest form, worn in drops, and it can last over ten hours. In return it loses that easy opening, and the price per bottle climbs the most.

Why we chose EDP

Every Chez Pierre perfume is made in Eau de Parfum concentration, with 20% perfume oil. That is not by accident.

An eau de toilette would mean carrying the bottle with you and refreshing the scent after lunch. An extrait would push the price up, and only someone counting hours would notice the gain. EDP sits exactly in between: one spray in the morning carries the whole working day, and the scent opens and develops instead of settling on the skin at once.

So we don't make lighter and pricier versions of the same scent. We make one, in the concentration where that scent works best.

How a perfume is measured

Longevity, projection and sillage

Three things describe every perfume, whatever the price or the name on the bottle. Once you separate them, it is easier to say what you actually want from a scent.

01

Longevity

How many hours the scent stays on skin

Measured from the moment you spray to the moment you can no longer smell it up close. It depends on the concentration, but also on your skin: on dry skin every perfume lasts less, so a dab of unscented cream before spraying helps.

02

Projection

How far it travels around you

Strongest in the first hour, it tells you how much space the scent takes up. Big projection is great for evenings and colder days, while at the office or in a meeting it usually gets in the way more than it helps.

03

Sillage

The trail you leave behind

Pronounced „see-yazh“, it means the trail a scent leaves behind you. It is the reason someone turns around as you pass. A perfume can last a long time and still leave a small trail, and the other way round.

Strong is not the same as good. A perfume with huge projection quickly tires both you and the people around you, while one without any trail stays your own private thing.

That is why every one of our perfume descriptions says how it wears, not only how it smells.

CHOOSE YOUR LIFESYLE

Feels Like Summer

Inspired by: Virgin Island Water, Creed

Feels Like Summer earns its name. It belongs to the warmer months, from the first hot week of spring through the end of summer, and it works especially well by water or in direct sun, where the coconut and lime read brightest. In winter it can feel thin, so save it for when the temperature actually calls for it.

Creed built Virgin Island Water as a unisex fragrance and that carries over here, one of the more versatile fragrances we carry for warm weather. Men and women both wear it, since it reads closer to fresh and citrus than to anything distinctly masculine or feminine, so buy it for him or for her without much worry. It is a solid alternative for anyone who loves the Creed original.

Choose our Inspiration

Creed is a French perfume house with a history going back over two centuries, a luxury name that carries real weight in niche perfumery, and Virgin Island Water is one of its best known warm-weather fragrance releases, built around the idea of a Caribbean escape without leaving home. It sits on the fresh, fruity side of Creed's catalogue rather than among the darker, woodier perfumes the house is also known for, closer to a citrus accord than to anything heavy.

Read reviews of the original and the coconut-and-rum combination is what people mention most. Most shoppers just call it Virgin Island Water rather than adding the Creed name every time, and that shorthand is what most perfume dupes and clones on the market are chasing.

Why choose us?

Feels Like Summer is our alternative to Creed Virgin Island Water, our own recipe rather than a mass-produced clone, made by hand in small batches to get as close as we can to that coconut, lime and rum combination. It is one of the summer perfumes we keep in the range all year.

We only make it as an eau de parfum, since anything lighter would lose the base notes and heart notes too quickly: a summer fragrance that disappears by lunchtime is no use to anyone. If it does not smell similar to what you expected, send it back within 15 days and we will sort an exchange.