Reviews of Silver Mountain Water (1995)
by Creed

“…inspired by the exhilarating crispness of mountain air and the purity of cascading alpine streams…” (Creed site). I find this to be a cool, even frosty scent. Citrus and green tea in the opening, lots of green tea. The blackcurrant buds give another green note. For me this scent is all surface, showing glittering sparkles but having no depth. Indeed, I find it tiresome after a while...like breathing air from a freezer. Much nicer cool-frosty scents are Blenheim Bouquet and Fath's Green Water.

it took a few tries . sometimes i get a slight ink smell.a very nice scent its mi with somethin slightly different. i guess the q is, would i pay that price for it? no.

"Um. Hi, Silver Mountain Water, thanks for coming. I suppose you're wondering why I asked you here today? Would you like any wine, anything? No? Uh... well, I guess I'll get right down to it. I see what you're trying to do, really. I get it, and I respect it, but, um... really, you're trying too hard. I know you want to be all silvery and all mountain watery, but I'm sorry, I just find you all metallic and sort of vulgar and gross. Maybe you could try to be a little more like your cousin, Millesime Imperial? Oh... now, don't cry, I'm sorry. Really, it's not you, it's me."

Having smelled SMW on a spray sample card at a local fragrance shop last summer, I was mesmerized by the warm (milky?) tea and black currant notes. Truly exhilarating! I filed the smell away for future reference, vowing to acquire this cologne as my first Creed when I felt I could afford to pay the high price. Imagine my joy when I received a 4 oz bottle a few days ago for my birthday! Well .. the joy turned to consternation when I sprayed it on my wrist to test the smell again. At first there was a kind of gasoline-like opening that (thankfully) disappeared after a few seconds and then I did encounter the wonderful scent I had smelled on the card last year. But .. it seemed much weaker than I remember and I felt troubled. The next day I decided to wear SMW and see what happened. Again, the slightly pungent gasoline smell followed quickly by a wonderful yet weak tea and black currant scent. I could smell it on my wrists for about 45 minutes to one hour. I'm assuming the same for what I had sprayed on my neck and upper chest. Very understated but nice for about an hour and then completely gone. Is it possible I got an older bottle? Perhaps not, since I've read elsewhere that SMW actually improves with age and develops much stronger presence and longevity. It is certainly not a fake as it was purchased through Fragrancenet.com and cost about $150. I'm really baffled .. maybe it just IS what it IS. But how does one account for the perceived difference in strength of scent from last year's spray card and now? The inquest continues ...

I give the scent I remember from last summer a thumbs up, but a thumbs down for the bottle I now own. Final verdict - a baffled neutral.

This review is under revision.

It is quiet an interesting smell. The blackcurrant note is something I havent come across before. I recommend wearing it during the summer. SMW is a very fresh scent. I only found it did not last very long at all. I can recognize it for 2-3 hours than only a subtle hint is left.

fresh and aquatic frag.i would recommend for summer and any ocassion.
its more suitable for womens.

A little disapointed a wonderful fragrance longevity terrible for the price and the hype of the creed brand i rather stick to more affordable and longer lasting fragrances

this smells too much like sean john unforgiveable for me. in fact I prefer it over SMW. CREED makes nice frags but they are too over priced and sometimes just not worth the money.

Hmm, I just ordered a bottle of this online and it is on the way. I regret waiting until now to check out reviews on it, since reading the comparisons to CK1 (I hate that, the slightest detection of it ruins my day and any further exposure results in a headache). I was also disappointed to read the reviews that said it could be considered a uinisex frag. Not a fan of those at all. Then, I checked out Creed's website (www.parfusmscreed.com) and it is indeed a unisex frag. Oh well, I just hope it isn't too feminine or CK1-like. Keep your eyes on Ebay for a bargain, SMW lovers.

Very nice, (damning with faint praise?) blackberries, cream and currant bushes, wears close to the body, but does only last 5 hours on me.At this price it should last longer, or am I missing the point?

Silver Mountain Water has a beautiful sweet / tart vibe going for it. It has light, delicate, and yet full accords and the interplay between the tart currents and violet, the smooth musks and patchouli, and the enticing green tea, forms an intriguing complexity rare in such a light fragrance. It’s not often that I find scents this light and airy or aquatic to be so satisfying and complete. I think this is a true achievement in the perfumer’s art. So very lovely but so very ephemeral. Unfortunately for me, Silver Mountain Water is neither silver nor mountain in longevity on my skin… My skin seems to suck it right in and it is completely gone in forty-five minutes. I want more longevity than that in my fragrances. Apparently many others do not have the longevity problem with this scent. In that case, it is a fragrance I would recommend testing. The person it lasts on is lucky, indeed.

This doesn't really work for me. I like the green tea but the blackcurrant just seems to be too heavy and dominant, and a little crass. In between the two notes, there is another inky or musky murky thing which to my mind clutters the composition. If this had been left empty and the cassis toned down a bit it would be a great and subtle scent. Nearly, but not quite.

putting this on a scent strip or on yourself is immediate intoxication and kind of minty with sort of eucalyptussy edge to it even

quickly it becomes an echo of itself and quite nice for awhile to smell, lifting your forearm up to do so.

when it's been on a long time, I don't like the scent, and that trace of it stays on a long long long time even after showering.

usually with most anything once it's almost gone on me I really don't mind it and kind of like it, but in this case, sadly, it's like a bad aftertaste for me that lasts a long time.

What might work is to carry a little atomizer and refresh it a lot! I"ll try that cause I already have decant en route.

A definite summer scent. While unlike Burberry Brit, it strikes me in the same way, in that the wearer must be confident in the ability to wear SMW without raising an eyebrow. Could almost be considered a unisex fragrance.

I like this scent. The tea and black currant notes are obvious. However, the tea note took on an odd twist for me. I spend alot of time outside in my job, and sweating. So I am reminded of my daily fragrance choices often throughout the day, as the body heat releases the scent. In this case w/ SMW, I enjoyed that reminder, for the most part. Every now and then, quite often in fact, the tea note reminded me of urine. I don't mean to disparage this frag at all. I like it, in fact. If I ignored the similarity, it smelled good. Overall, I feel like it's light, but with alot more depth to it than most light/citrus/ozonic scents. Top notes much more complex than the tea-ish base note w/ a splash of bk currant. Somehow strikes me as a winter day frag - but smells a bit like piss. My 2 cents.

This one is too much of a single note. You can find that note in Himalaya, that has it mixed in a nice bouquet among other notes. This fragrance really reminds me how great Himalaya is.