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I was curious to see how much MI I've really gone through in the last few months, so I decided to scrape off some of the gold from the bottom of the bottle. Once it starts flaking off, it comes off really easily. I wouldn't worry much as long as it smells okay.
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As a side note in response to what Oolong said, most of the merchandise at TJ Maxx is in fact first-quality stuff, usually stuff that never made it to department stores, or got sent back from department stores to make more room for new merchandise (which is why most of the stuff is past-season). If it failed its quality check, it'll be sold with an "If perfect, compare at $xx.xx" tag. I don't know Ross' policy, but I suspect it's similar.

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I just read it in a forbes article. It says 22 k gold. King Faisal used to give solid gold bottles of imperial away as gifts.

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Hmmm....Creed's site says that the bottle comes in an "antique gold" glass bottle. Neither confirming or laying to rest either of our information. Any link to the forbes article?

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Here is the link to it. http://www.forbes.com//forbes/1999/1011/6409434a.html
Here is the article;
The Sweet Smell of Excess
Carleen Hawn, 10.11.99
NAPOLEON III WORE a scent that smelled like leather, and not just any old leather, either. Russian leather. Spain's Alfonso XIII wore a scent with a faint woody odor called Green Irish Tweed. Winston Churchill's personal perfume, dubbed Tabarome, smelled of tobacco. All these scents have one thing in common: They were made exclusively for their wearers by the House of Creed, which started doing this sort of thing for England's George III in 1760, and has kept on doing it straight through to such modern royalty as JFK and Marilyn Monroe.
If you regard most ordinary store-bought scents as nothing more than Brut by a fancier name, be advised: The House of Creed will infuse, say, the essence of hard disks, stale coffee and telephone wire into an exclusive perfume for any cyber-gazillionaire willing to shell out up to thirty grand and wait six months.
The deal is, Creed will brew up a batch of 10 liters. That's more perfume than anyone can wear in a lifetime, but you could hand out bottles to 300 friends. For five years, Creed promises not to sell the perfume to anyone else.
After that, your pool man can wear it--if he pays the $160 Creed charges for four ounces of Imperiale Millesime, the fragrance commissioned by Saudi King Faisal. It comes in a 22-karat gold-plated flask. All but two of Creed's 32 over-the-counter perfumes started as exclusives, including the Royal English Leather scent it made for George III.

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Hmmm...how very interesting.

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The gold (paint?) is not peeling but it ís a bit chipped at some places of my bottle. I wouldn't bother too much about that since you can't really expect a solid gold bottle for that price
As long as it smells nice

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This is a little off-topic, but does anyone know how many parts of 1ml a full spritz of the 4oz Creed bottles is. Perhaps 1/5 of 1ml?
Which would mean a 120ml bottle would be good for 5*120 = 600 sprays. I'm not sure though that is just my suggestion. Anyone ever tried to measure?

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I have also read two other articles that stated it is 22-k gold.

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If you use a conductive paint, and then electroplate with a very fine layer of gold, then you have a '22carat' bottle. But in its own right, it won't be worth a lot!!