Tres Nuit has been on this site since the beginning, on six different rankings, with no review of its own — and with a description that pointed at the wrong fragrance. This review fixes that. Armaf Tres Nuit is not a budget Bleu de Chanel. It is a clone of Creed Green Irish Tweed, it is one of the oldest and most widely owned clones in the category, and it is one of the cheapest bottles we rank anywhere on this site. All three of those facts matter to what you should do about it.
Start with the note lists, side by side
This is the rare case where you do not have to take anybody's word for what a fragrance is copying, because the published pyramids do the arguing for you. Fragrantica lists Tres Nuit as iris, lemon and vervain on top; lavender, violet and spicy notes through the heart; ambergris and sandalwood in the base. It lists Creed Green Irish Tweed — launched in 1985, created by Olivier Creed and Pierre Bourdon — as iris and vervain on top, violet leaf in the heart, ambergris and Mysore sandalwood in the base.
Read those twice. Every note in the Creed appears in the Armaf, in the same position in the pyramid. Tres Nuit adds lemon, lavender and a vague "spicy notes" entry on top of that skeleton, and nothing else. That is not a coincidence and nobody involved has ever pretended it is. Armaf's own product page describes it blandly as "a citrus floral scent with notes of lemon, lavender, and sandalwood," which is true and tells you nothing; the note list tells you everything.
How it smells
Fragrantica files it as an aromatic spicy fragrance and its top-voted accords run powdery, violet, lavender, woody, iris, citrus, amber, aromatic, floral, warm spicy — in that order. Parfumo, which catalogs it as a fresh-green, lists the main accords as fresh, green, spicy, woody and citrus. Those two descriptions sound like different bottles until you wear it, at which point they turn out to describe different halves of the same wear.
The first ten minutes are the green half: a sharp, bright lemon-and-verbena opening with a faintly soapy edge, which is the part people mean when they say it smells like an expensive bar of garden soap. Then the iris and violet take over and it goes powdery — that is the second half, and it is where the Fragrantica accord list is right and the Parfumo one is understating things. From roughly hour one onward this is a soft, dusty, violet-and-iris skin scent over clean woods, and it stays there, more or less linear, until it goes. One long-standing Fragrantica reviewer describes exactly that arc: a "thicker violet/violet leaf/iris accord that drones in linear fashion until a lighter and slightly cheaper sandalwood and a bit of Ambroxan round it out." That is a fair and unflattering summary, and it is also most of what you are buying.
It is not sweet, it is not aquatic, and despite the name and the dark leather-wrapped bottle it is not an evening fragrance. One reviewer put the mismatch well: "Very Night" in a dark bottle suggests a fall and winter scent, and what is actually inside belongs at the front of the summer shelf.
How close does it get to Green Irish Tweed?
Closer than almost anything else at the price, and the gap is in the dry-down rather than the opening. We do not own a gas chromatograph and we will not print a decimal similarity score as though we did — the method is on our how we review page. What we can do is report what the people who own both say, and they are unusually consistent.
The most detailed comparison on the Fragrantica listing argues that the opening accord is "nearly identical to vintage Green Irish Tweed," that the dry-down matches the much-criticized late-2010s version of the Creed rather than the 1990s one, and concludes that "Tres Nuit is the best GIT clone ever made, and nothing else comes close." A second owner puts it at roughly ninety percent similar off a Creed sample. A third, who finds the original overhyped, calls it "slightly more powdery and less green than GIT, but as close as makes no difference." A fourth is more measured and probably most accurate: it "sits just below Green Irish Tweed in terms of quality and complexity (it's missing some of those green, leafy nuances)," but "performance beats both GIT and Cool Water."
Our own call sits with that last one. The structure is right, the opening is very close, and what the Creed has that this does not is a greener, more three-dimensional middle and a smoother sandalwood underneath. If you have never smelled Green Irish Tweed you will not notice anything missing. If you have worn it for years you will notice within an hour. Neither of those is a reason not to spend clone money.
Two honest caveats on the comparison. First, the Creed itself has changed: owners of 1990s bottles consistently describe the current formula as thinner than what they remember, which is a widely repeated community view rather than anything we can measure, and it means "how close is the clone" depends on which original you are comparing against. Second, Tres Nuit is not the only candidate — Fragrantica reviewers repeatedly name Rasasi Egra as a rival and at least one argues it is the better copy. We have no Rasasi Egra listing in our catalog and have not assessed it, so we are passing that on rather than endorsing it.
The Bleu de Chanel mix-up, and what we got wrong
Until this review, our own catalog described Tres Nuit as the budget answer to liking Bleu de Chanel but not its price, and it still sits at the top of our Bleu de Chanel dupes ranking. That framing is wrong, and we have corrected the product entry sitewide with this review. Bleu de Chanel is built on citrus, ginger, nutmeg and a smoky incense-cedar base. Tres Nuit has none of those things. The reason the two ended up next to each other is real but much weaker than a dupe claim: both are quiet, clean, unobjectionable bottles that fill the same slot in a wardrobe, and Fragrantica's own "people who like this also like" panel puts Bleu de Chanel eau de parfum in Tres Nuit's list alongside Green Irish Tweed, Prada L'Homme and Dior Homme Intense.
Practically: if you want the Bleu de Chanel profile cheaply, Tres Nuit is the wrong bottle, and Armaf's own Club de Nuit Blue Iconic — grapefruit and lemon into a woody-amber base — is the closer structural match, with the longevity lottery that comes with it. If you want a clean green scent for an office, Tres Nuit is the better fragrance of the two and costs less. Both are ranked below.
Performance
Moderate, and genuinely inconsistent between people. Parfumo's community rates longevity 6.8 out of 10 across 458 ratings and sillage 6.7 across 455, against 7.5 for the scent itself on 506 ratings. The individual reports spread much wider than those averages suggest. One careful reviewer logs strong projection for two hours, reduced projection for another two, occasional whiffs out to five, and a skin scent that disappears around hour eight. Another gets about four to five hours and describes the projection as similarly restrained to the original's. A third reports no more than five. A fourth insists on seven to eight hours and days on clothing, and is annoyed that the community voted the performance moderate.
Our published scores — 6 for longevity, 6 for sillage, 6 for projection — sit deliberately at the cautious end of that spread. Buy it expecting a half-day fragrance that you may need to reapply, and note the one thing almost everyone agrees on: it holds far longer on fabric than on skin.
The maturation claim
This one is unusual enough to be worth its own section, because an uncomfortable number of owners report the same thing independently: a fresh bottle smells harsher and more synthetic than the same bottle a year later. One reviewer says it "smelled way too synthetic and harsh" on purchase and that "after almost 7 months, it has gotten better and is quite beautiful." Another, eight years in, says it was rough out of the box and much better after a year. A third describes the synthetic funkiness disappearing between one spring and the next.
We cannot verify this. We have no way to compare a sealed bottle against a settled one under controlled conditions, we are not going to pretend otherwise, and the simpler explanation — that people acclimatize to a scent they own — cannot be ruled out. What it does mean practically is that if your bottle arrives smelling sharp and chemical, the reports suggest shelving it rather than returning it. That is community consensus, clearly labeled as such, not a finding of ours.
The bottle, the name and the EDT/EDP question
The presentation is the weakest part of the product and the community says so plainly: Parfumo rates the bottle 6.4 out of 10 across 478 ratings, the lowest score on its listing and well below the scent. Owners call the leather-wrapped flask awkward to hold and spray, and one long-time Armaf buyer calls it one of the house's best fragrances and one of its worst bottles in the same sentence. None of that affects how it smells, but if you are buying it as a gift, know that the box is the cheap part of this purchase.
There is also a genuine labeling muddle worth knowing before you order. Armaf's own product page calls it "Tres Nuit Pour Homme Eau De Parfum (EDP)" and so does the Amazon listing we link; Parfumo catalogs the same fragrance as an eau de toilette. We have followed the manufacturer and the retailer and list it as an EDP. If you want that label to mean something before you shop, our concentrations guide explains what the percentages actually buy you — and why a clone at eau de parfum strength can out-last a designer eau de toilette.
What it costs, next to what it is copying
The per-milliliter table below is the honest version of the price conversation. Our daily tracker pulls each number from Amazon and the table goes blank rather than show a remembered figure, so what you see is what the listing says today. Fragrantica's price panel also showed gray-market discounters carrying Tres Nuit for single-digit and low-twenties figures on the day we checked, which is worth knowing — we only link to Amazon, so Amazon's is the price we can stand behind.
| Bottle | Size | Price | Per ml | Close to Green Irish Tweed? |
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| Armaf Tres NuitThe opening is very close; the dry-down is powderier and a grade coarser than the Creed. | 100 ml | $21.35 | $0.21 | Closest at the price |
| Armaf Club de Nuit Blue IconicA Bleu de Chanel-shaped citrus-woody. Here because Tres Nuit is so often mistaken for one. | 105 ml | $36.59 | $0.35 | Not a clone |
| Creed Green Irish Tweed Atomizer Set (3 × 10 ml) — the originalCreed's own three-vial travel set — the honest way to own Green Irish Tweed without the counterfeit risk. | 30 ml | $204.00 | $6.80 | The real thing |
#ad · Prices are live from the Amazon Product API, as of Oct 4, 2026, and per-milliliter is calculated from them. Where we have no verified live price we show a dash rather than a number that has rotted. Closeness calls are our editorial judgment, not lab measurements.
When it works
Daytime, spring and summer, and any room where being noticed would be a problem. It is quiet by design, it reads as clean and grown-up rather than sweet or sporty, and at one or two sprays it is about as unlikely to offend anyone as a fragrance gets — which is why it holds its place on our office ranking and is the budget pick on our job-interview ranking. One Fragrantica owner calls it a fragrance for someone who does not want to smell like they are wearing a fragrance, which is both a compliment and a warning depending on what you wanted.
It also makes an unusually safe blind buy for a beginner, for the boring reason that it costs almost nothing and almost nobody hates it. If this is your first or second bottle, our first cologne guide covers the wider question of what to put next to it.
The honest caveats
Three, and the first is the one that catches people. Iris and violet are skin-chemistry notes, and when they go wrong on someone they go badly wrong. Fragrantica carries a steady trickle of reviews from people who love iris fragrances generally and find this one turns unpleasant on them specifically — one puts it as "it starts great but quickly turns revolting on my skin," and another says it smells great on a tester strip and not at all on skin. At clone prices that is a survivable mistake, but it is a real one, and it is why our testing guide exists.
Second, the synthetic edge. Even admirers mention it: sprayed heavily in one spot it can read chemical, and at least one owner who likes the notes individually concluded the whole thing smelled cheap and would not rebuy. Spray less than you think you need.
Third, it is not interesting. Fragrantica's 4.11 out of 5 across 3,573 votes is a strong score for a bottle at this price, and the fragrance it is copying scores 4.29 across 12,467 — but nobody buys Tres Nuit to smell distinctive. It is the fragrance equivalent of a well-made plain white shirt, and if what you actually want is something with a signature, our signature scent guide is a better place to start than this bottle.
Tres Nuit against the alternatives
Creed Green Irish Tweedis the comparison, and we list the house's own three-vial travel set rather than a full bottle on purpose. A heavily discounted "full bottle" of a Creed from an unknown marketplace seller is one of the most reliable counterfeit traps in fragrance — the same logic we apply on our Aventus review. Thirty milliliters of the real thing is enough to wear for months and settle the question for yourself, at a price that is still many times this entire bottle. Buy it if the answer matters to you; skip it if it does not.
Davidoff Cool Water is the fragrance most first-time Tres Nuit buyers compare it to unprompted — several reviewers note that Cool Water and Green Irish Tweed share a perfumer in Pierre Bourdon, which is why the whole group smells related. Cool Water is minty and marine where Tres Nuit is green and powdery, and owners who have both overwhelmingly report preferring Tres Nuit. It is also no longer the pocket-change bottle its reputation suggests on the listing we track, so it is not on this page as a cheaper alternative; check the live price on our Cool Water review before assuming it undercuts anything.
Armaf Club de Nuit Blue Iconic is here for the reader who arrived looking for a cheap Bleu de Chanel and found this page instead. It is the genuinely Bleu-shaped Armaf: grapefruit and lemon into ginger, melon and a woody-amber base. It is also the least predictable bottle on this page — owner longevity reports run from two hours to seven — so treat it as the riskier of the two Armafs, not the upgrade.
Who should buy it
Buy it if you want the Green Irish Tweed idea and have no intention of spending Creed money; if you need a quiet, clean, green daytime bottle for an office, an interview or a hot afternoon; or if you are early in this hobby and want a cheap bottle that will teach you what iris and violet smell like on your own skin.
Skip it if you came for Bleu de Chanel, because this is not that; if you need dependable eight-hour performance, because the reports do not support it; or if iris and violet have gone wrong on you before. The wider field of cheap clones that genuinely last is ranked on our longest-lasting clones page, and the full Armaf range is ranked on our best Armaf page.
