Reviews of Silver Mountain Water (1995)
by Creed

I just got a sample of this in the mail. WOW! This smells like putrified celery and ivory soap! Absolutely disgusting. Bad from the bottle, worse on my skin.

Odd notes of ink and tarnished silver cascade across a breeze of weak tea and faint blackcurrants. A light scent with little longevity.

Too feminine, the black currant overpowers the pleasant teas scent, and yes it does have an inkjet toner like note in there somewhere too. Over-rated.

GIT is phenomenal and totally unique and my favorite for everyday wear, Taborome is mature and wonderful with the tobacco scent as is Chèvrefeuille with the lemon mint-basil - and all 3 have great drydowns and maintain their place, requiring only a SMALL amount to be effective, but SMW gives me a major headache.

Beautiful bottle and name, but this is very very unimpressive.

Maybe suitable as a female sport scent?

Yes, the infamous "ink" note, I often referred it as being some weird note in SWM that I can't get pass. Therefore, the reason for my thumbs down.

smw doesn't work for me. I guess I'm one fo the very few that don't like it at all. I don't get to enjoy the tea note , there is kinda ink smell in there.Noooo for me

"Everyone knew when he walked into a room. Perhaps it was the damp, used blackcurrant tea bags he wore under his arms." Maybe this is a generational thing: as an older gentleman, I want to smell sophisticated, interesting, and complex - not like something that should go from the teacup to the garbage. I don't get the SMW excitement ... but then again, I don't get the fuss folks make over GIT, either.

The petrol note disturbs me and I find the composition overall to be irritating. Interesting idea, but just doesn't work for me.

This scent makes me sick to my stomach.

Although Creed's masterpieces are among my all-time favorites, this one I did not like very much. I wore a sample and thought it was ok, at least unique. It starts fresh, with tea and berry notes, which are pleasant, but a little too feminine. A strong aquatic or woodsy underlying note would save it at that point, but instead the lighter notes fade and an overpowering decaying flowers/sweet floral scent clings mercililessly for days....defineitely will not attract women and despite being feminine, I would not want my girlfriend to wear it either. De Charlus's comment, below, was bang on in this instance.

This stuff is too sweet for me, very feminine, even got a headache smelling on my skin!

This was the lecture that the Baron de Charlus delivered to the Society of Perfumes in Paris concerning Silver Mountain Water: 'Ah, my friends, memories of morning silver and the bright metallic clatter of streams! Cold smile of fruits in the snow! And there, on the tea-wafted winds, a soltary high-flying bird calls to us from strage horizons! ... But then, alas, all this poetic fragility collapses into the odour of what the admirable Poppinj has called that "infamous Creed arse note". Whether it be civet or something else, I neither know nor care. I only know that it is foul. It is rumoured that certain ancient tribes would amorously smear themselves with excrement in the hapless delusion that this constituted an aphrodisiac. It would appear that the House of Creed, supposedly the epitome of European civilization and refinement, has unconsciously emulated them in this unfortunate protocol - and not just in one but in several of their scents.'