Spring Flower (1996)
by Creed

My first few sniffs of this had me saying “Oh, yawn, another fruity – floral – the last thing in the world I need to be smelling now…” So I lost interest until about ten minutes later when I realized that the textured, generic, slightly synthetic fruity – floral opening I had just experienced had turned into an aroma of delicacy and freshness. It’s not even fair to call the opening “fruity – floral” because the floral part of it is minimal. The fruit, however, are etherealized translucence. The peach, pear, and melon (I don’t get apricot or apple) are pristinely vaporous, and, while fruity fragrances are usually an annoyance to me, I can’t help but admire the clarity and quality of these accords. The heart notes pick up some floral elements – lily of the valley and water lily each with an edge of lemon blossom. It’s a very good floral accord – bright and clean… feminine but not girly. For the base I get cedar, vanilla, and powder.

Spring Flower performs beautifully on the skin… Its sillage occurs in wisps – I would say that this is a scent that should be smelled as sillage rather than close to the skin. Close to the skin Spring Flower smells more creamy. The wispy nature of its sillage is its true accomplishment and persona, IMHO.

I love, love, love Spring Flowers! Its fresh scent is very glamorous, and to me, somehow, very modern. Notes of peach, apple, melon, jasmine, rose, musk, and ambergris all blended so beautifully. Very different and distinct scent. I get so many compliments when I wear this ~ everyone wants to know what I'm wearing.

Spring Flower opens with blindingly bright, artificial fruit notes and not much flower in evidence. As the scent develops, it remains a mélange of citrus, watermelon, and aquatic notes. In fact, it reminds me a bit of Millésime Impérial, though far less poised and natural.

The fruit sharpens dramatically over the first half of an hour, becoming very tart, so that the whole thing smells like a lemon drop. Still nothing particularly floral in there! Instead, Spring Flower remains fake-fruity, with an unpleasant chemical edge, and winds up remarkably cheap smelling and generic. I refuse to believe that Audrey Hepburn ever wore this shoddy, synthetic mess.

Spring Flower by Creed = £173. The Impulse Body spray it smells of = £1.89.

I was hoping for tons of nice fresh flowers but I find this too be a pale musk, the ´clean´ type of white musk that is very popular at times. It´s a little sour as well with almost no flowers, I don´t get anything else that would redeem this fragrance for me either. It´s bland, unoffensive, uninteresting.

I like Spring Flower. Emphasis on like. Although, like another reviewer posted, I have something of a knock-off that I like better. The interpretation of the original has less of that metallic, sharp after smell. I probably like Spring Flower because it's apple and lily of the valley with just a hint of rose and musk. It does, however, go a little too sweet on me sometimes. I have to reserve this one for spring like days - the kind when the weather is warm but not hot. Not the most unique or complicated fragrance,but just okay for sometimes when I feel like wearing something girly and upbeat.