Reviews of Spring Flower (1996)
by Creed

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.

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 got this as a gift. I think Creed has been overrated, overpriced for its quality. It's a sweet, aquatic, fruity scent. Something in it does not settle and subdue after hours of application on the skin, something in it gives me a headache, I just can't tolerate this one. Sorry Creed!

Recently I tested Cool Water Woman by Davidoff, ironically, this Creed Spring Flower graces my wrist only a few days later...and I'm not finding much difference between the two! My impression of CCW was "sweet fruity floral top with a woodsy ozone marine drydown". SF is actually even less than that! As VIBERT points out there is not much flower in evidence here...he's absolutely correct, I don't get any flower notes. What I do smell is a fruity opening with a somewhat sickly ozone/aquatic base. Unfortunately quite a disappointment for me.

I tried to love this one - I really did! After hearing so many wonderful things about Spring Flower, I couldn't not try it. But the bright fresh happy scent only lasted a few brief moments until I was overpowered by... what was it? At first I couldn't put my finger on it. It smelled familiar, but like a man's fragrance - and then it hit me: cK One! The scent that lingered with me was the masculine edge of cK One. Reading calchic's review tells me why - hedione. I agree - it is a truly evil note. It completely ruined Spring Flower for me and I am unable to wear it again for fear of smelling like a South Beach tea dance circa 1996. Oh well - fortunate are those who can enjoy Spring Flower!