Virgin Island Water (2007)
by Creed

Hello smooth summery island-flavored scentness! It's me, your somewhat masculine but curious reviewer.

Let's get this straight - this is not a very masculine scent. My girlfriend took a whiff and exclaimed "oooh coconut", followed by "yeah, this one is for me .. oweee" then sat back and smiled - content with her judgement.

I gotto say though, I get what she's saying. It's a very good, fresh and summery frag, but I couldn't really imagine myself wearing it. It's just too light, too modest and without a certain "weight" I prefer.

As said, a lovely scent strongly flavored by coconut (that's basically what I'm getting 20-30 mins after application), but it's just not masculine enough for me. Wouldn't recommend blind-buying this, but you should really sample it if you're interested in smooth, creamy coconut blended with a tad of citrus.

29th January, 2012.

I really enjoy this stuff, as with most Creed's it's over priced, also the Longevity & Projection aren't the best. Even so it is my favorite light/fresh summer fragrance.

I do not at all think it smells anything like sunscreen/ Bath and Body Works.

20th January, 2012.

My first Creed scent, and as a former lover once said, it's what I would smell like anyway. it will continue to be a constant in my collection.

20th November, 2011.

It's the only Creed I own and I love it, maybe because I love coconut in perfumes, this is a carefree and young perfume.
The other day I smell the new Sara Jessica Parker NYC Pure crush and It remind me VIW.
I think if I did not have VIW in my wardrobe I would get SJP NYC Pure Crush, it's much more affordable than VIW.

7th November, 2011.

Coconut and Lime. While this is well made it is too much of a novelty scent to receive a thumbs up. I just can't see wearing this on a regular basis unless you live in the Caribbean.

26th October, 2011.

When I bought the vial, I wasn't optimistic, expecting it to be too sweet, too weak, too feminine, or too gimmicky (coconut!?)...I ultimately liked it enough to buy a decant. It's very transparent to begin with, with notes being hidden by the alcohol, but the alcohol doesn't burn. Lime rinds, coconut juice (not coconut milk!), light airy florals and grasses emerge, reminding one of a tropical drink...not necessarily an actual one (pina colada / mojito hybrid?) but a smell that one would easily ascribe to a tropical drink in a tropical place, even though the booze only enters in much later. It would fit in well with the Tommy Bahama line. On tissue paper, it's less sweet and more grassy than I recall on my shirt or skin, where it became a semi-sweet, creamy, but not heavy coconut. Either way it's very clean in a way that doesn't invoke typical soap, but maybe just hints at the tropical-scented bath products that your resort hotel has provided. Only once I'm pretty far along timewise do I explicitly smell the booze component, basically a limey rum, turning it back a bit toward mojito territory. The coconut is still going, though, and I'd say it projects farther, so most people smelling the base on you would smell primarily coconut. This scent is extremely well-composed...an example of an expensive brand bringing out an atypical fragrance that would have been aggressive, overblown and tacky, like a $3 air freshener, if it had been made just to be marketable by a designer brand. Instead, Creed has kept VIW quiet, restrained and realistic, thus making it way more wearable than the disaster that it could have been. Also very plausibly unisex.

16th October, 2011.