Hey guys,
I just did something I swore I'd never do... I paid (gulp) retail for a bottle of Creed.
I went to Neimans and tried out the new Creed Virgin Island Water. I'd been wanting to sniff it for a while and today I just had to get it done.
First impression on skin-- coconut all the way. I liked it. I like coconut.
I spent some time talking to the SA and trying out other scents while the VIW was on my wrist. Then a few minutes later, I got the lime (backwards I know--most people get the lime first). Holy crap! That is an AMAZING lime smell. Just like the smell of fresh cut limes on your fingers. The best lime I've ever experienced.
Then I get something milky. Besides the coconut. I can pinpoint this exact edible note as something I detected in B*Men (though VIW is nothing like B*Men-- there is just this one mutual note I'm getting). I also get the ylang ylang which does push this scent a little toward the feminine --which I bring up also because of the bottle that VIW comes in-- it's the "men's style of bottle, but on the top of the cap, the Creed crest is not inlayed in a round shape like all the others, but rather in a square "button" like the womens' I think. Strange. The bottle is really attractive and classy-- the only downside is the curse of the Creed "leaky sprayer" that causes the juice to sometimes run down the side of the bottle. usually this only happens with my newer bottles-- once I've had them for a while, this problem subsides. (Of course, getting this stuff all over your hands is refreshing--like squeezing limes.)
As many have pointed out before, the drydown and constant reappearance of notes at random is startling and unpredictable. Different facets of this fragrance come and go as if breezes were coming every five minutes from a different direction. I've NEVER experienced a fragrance with this phenomenon. I think the Creed boys really nailed the effect they were looking for with this one--It doesn't smell like a unidimensional fragrance. It smells like different smells coming from all directions.
The one "downer" about this fragrance is that sometimes there is that buttered popcorn note always kind of lingering in the shadows-- but it makes sense since coconut oil is what movie theaters use for their popcorn. So this aspect gives VIW its suntan oil aspect. Still though, because all the notes blow around in like hundred dollar bills in one of those game show cash booths, you're always getting different things. And it all balances out. Later in the drydown I start to get the ginger and rum notes. This is really a dynamic fragrance.
It was painful that I had to pay $225 retail for it since it isn't available anywhere else at a discount at the time, but I look at it like this-- I wear my Creeds more than anything else I have. They never go out of my rotation. Plus since Virgin Island Water is such a seductive fragrance and it smells like limes, rum and all that other drink related stuff--with me being a bartender, maybe it will pay for itself in bigger tips !
This is going to be really nice to wear on warm days outdoors. It's VERY different from most of the usual Creed line, but it's every bit as refined with attention to detail. A very solid and unique addition to my wardrobe.
Virgin Island Water rocks!
I just did something I swore I'd never do... I paid (gulp) retail for a bottle of Creed.
I went to Neimans and tried out the new Creed Virgin Island Water. I'd been wanting to sniff it for a while and today I just had to get it done.
First impression on skin-- coconut all the way. I liked it. I like coconut.
I spent some time talking to the SA and trying out other scents while the VIW was on my wrist. Then a few minutes later, I got the lime (backwards I know--most people get the lime first). Holy crap! That is an AMAZING lime smell. Just like the smell of fresh cut limes on your fingers. The best lime I've ever experienced.
Then I get something milky. Besides the coconut. I can pinpoint this exact edible note as something I detected in B*Men (though VIW is nothing like B*Men-- there is just this one mutual note I'm getting). I also get the ylang ylang which does push this scent a little toward the feminine --which I bring up also because of the bottle that VIW comes in-- it's the "men's style of bottle, but on the top of the cap, the Creed crest is not inlayed in a round shape like all the others, but rather in a square "button" like the womens' I think. Strange. The bottle is really attractive and classy-- the only downside is the curse of the Creed "leaky sprayer" that causes the juice to sometimes run down the side of the bottle. usually this only happens with my newer bottles-- once I've had them for a while, this problem subsides. (Of course, getting this stuff all over your hands is refreshing--like squeezing limes.)
As many have pointed out before, the drydown and constant reappearance of notes at random is startling and unpredictable. Different facets of this fragrance come and go as if breezes were coming every five minutes from a different direction. I've NEVER experienced a fragrance with this phenomenon. I think the Creed boys really nailed the effect they were looking for with this one--It doesn't smell like a unidimensional fragrance. It smells like different smells coming from all directions.
The one "downer" about this fragrance is that sometimes there is that buttered popcorn note always kind of lingering in the shadows-- but it makes sense since coconut oil is what movie theaters use for their popcorn. So this aspect gives VIW its suntan oil aspect. Still though, because all the notes blow around in like hundred dollar bills in one of those game show cash booths, you're always getting different things. And it all balances out. Later in the drydown I start to get the ginger and rum notes. This is really a dynamic fragrance.
It was painful that I had to pay $225 retail for it since it isn't available anywhere else at a discount at the time, but I look at it like this-- I wear my Creeds more than anything else I have. They never go out of my rotation. Plus since Virgin Island Water is such a seductive fragrance and it smells like limes, rum and all that other drink related stuff--with me being a bartender, maybe it will pay for itself in bigger tips !
This is going to be really nice to wear on warm days outdoors. It's VERY different from most of the usual Creed line, but it's every bit as refined with attention to detail. A very solid and unique addition to my wardrobe.
Virgin Island Water rocks!
