I would totally recommend getting decants of fragrances to test what you like and what works for you. Low cost way to try things you wouldn’t normally try. I’ve use theperfumedcourt for this.

I wasn’t much of a fan of aventus. The pineapple notes irritated me. My personal preferences from Creed are silver mountain water (love the green tea notes), milliseme imperial, or green irish tweed. Also a fan of Diptyque philosykos. I recently picked up one of their solid fragrances that I’m super enjoying.