Arc'teryx Cerium LT Hoody Review | Arcteryx Worth The Money? | How Down Fill Power Works | Eiderdown

I’ll be looking at if the cerium LT hoody is it worth it for price, how much I paid, overall functionality, what features and value does the jacket have compared to the cerium sv hoody. Before I go into the review, I’m going to briefly explain the 3 factors that apply to how down fill works to keep you warm and how those factors can help you identify a good quality down parka or jacket to help distinguish Arcteryx from other brands. I talked about how down fill works in greater detail in my canada goose and arcteryx cerium sv hoody video, so please check that out.

Down insulation traps body heat between the clusters of down within the coat to keep you warm. The less that is trapped, the colder you will feel. Ideally, you want the clusters of down to be bigger to retain more body heat, which translates to goose down. Duck down usually has smaller clusters and will retain less body heat. Beyond goose and duck down, comes fill power. Fill power is the number that you see ranging from 500-1000 when you first look at a down winter coat label as the first or second feature. It indicates the size of space one ounce of down is able to insulate when it reaches maximum loft. Fill power is a direct indication of the size of the down clusters in a jacket, which is why goose down generates higher fill powers than duck down. The fill power combined with the weight or the amount of down fill is what keeps you warm. Many companies do not actually list on the tag the weight of the down in a particular jacket. The last factor to consider is down to feather ratio. You’ll probably only see this on the inside tag of the coat rather than the label itself, but most commonly you’ll see 80/20, which is acceptable, ignore anything lower like 70/30. Ideally you want to look for 90/10 as the gold standard. If I had to rank the 3 down factors in order of importance, I’d probably say down weight is most important then down fill and then down to feather ratio. Arcteryx typically uses fairly high fill power with either 700 or higher, but the cerium LT and SV that I have both use 850 down fill. The latest version of the cerium SV for 2022 now uses 1000 down fill power. Arcteryx trade in program offers 20% back based on the original price of the item to use on your next arcteryx purchase.

So the Arc'teryx cerium LT Hoody is basically a cerium sv hoody, but with less down fill. There are very few differences between the LT and SV besides the weight of the down fill and more recently, the actual down fill power increasing from 850 to 1000 in the SV. Even though the cerium LT is technically a packable mid layer jacket, it's very slim fitting and closer to the body which helps you stay warmer than I’ve found when comparing it to other down jackets in general. Both of these jackets I’ve purchased are in a size small. By itself, I found the cerium LT to be pretty warm as a solo outer layer with just a t-shirt as your base layer, down to about the low to mid 30 degrees level even though it’s not quite as puffy as the SV with the limited amount of down fill. It’s super light to the point where you wouldn’t notice you had it on at all if it wasn’t just the slightest bit puffy to remind you of it. The weight of the entire jacket is quite a bit less than 1 pound at 11.8 oz and contains about 100 grams of down based on a size medium. The cerium LT hoody was $379 at the full retail price, but has now been rebranded as the Cerium Hoody which is not that much less than the cerium SV listed at $450. You can find deals on typically both the LT and SV, but generally the LT gets marked down more frequently during the holidays. As far as pricing, I actually ended up buying the last LT version at the outlet just before black friday including taxes for $284. I bought the cerium sv hoody for $494 a few years ago which has since come down in price and has a higher down fill, the beta sv I got for $429.


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00:00 - Intro
00:48 - How Down Fill Works
02:06 - Quality/Durability/Value
03:45 - Cerium LT Hoody Features
05:10 - Price Comparison
06:13 - StormHood/Sizing/Shell
07:39 - Summary/Eiderdown

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