“This is as straight up as I can be. Honestly I’ve never smelled the original Creed. That being said my colognes are usually in the $100 range, the clone smells name brand and it lasts about 6 hours. It’s part of my regular collection. I would buy it again. I saw some reviews talk about batch numbers... I didn’t follow that just did a blind purchase. Here is the number that came with mine just in case someone is keep track.”