Love in White Creed for women

I don't understand this one. If I don't see the pictures, I'd never guess what is in. Rice? well maybe yes, so kind of neutral smell, ok

Reminds me a little of deodorant or aerosol hairspray. Nothing special.

Too simple, soapy, it reminds me to a good fabric softener. For very young girls.

I really like this scent personally, though I always thought there was something about it that was trying to be sophisticated, yet still coming across like a suburban high school cheerleader's body spray in the early 90's. ..And I just realised! It smells exactly like the old school (maybe it still smells this way, if even still exists..) shampoo line, Finesse!! Can't believe I've worn it for years and just had this eureka moment lol

It doesn't light the World on fire, but it mellows out to a light, clean, doll like scent that works on my skin.

Very very soft, powdery, unusual and "cosy" fragrance. You have to try it on your skin, don't smell it from the bottle or a sample, it sets and opens very differntly on skin. I tried a sample and wanted to smell it again and again - it was so unlike anything I tried before. So I got a full botle. Girls, who hate it - you must have gotten a fake one. I can't believe what you're saying.

i just tested this, and I do get it now why everybody loves this fragrance. It is very pretty, uplifting, a bit different but a bit too formal. There is no play in the scent, it stays quite linear and the dry down is pretty functional too.

It appears, opinions are divided, and well, I straddle the fence here.

Love in White gets close to the finish line but it can not get across. I like it, but I don't love it.

And, I have to say something about the price, way out of line!!!

An oriental floral that is a bit to clean and not strong enough to my liking. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt since it rocks the celeb end (Angelina, Michelle Obama), but I'm of the mind that there are others that do it better.

Creed does use top notch ingredients, but which doesn't always translate to being used correctly. Maybe, it's something lacking which could take it to new heights (and I really respect Creed)

Sillage is good but longevity lacks. The bottle is attractive but too white for me taste.

The best fragrance EVER!!!!!!!

I had to try Love in White at some point. Given the Turin review in The Guide, I couldn’t resist. The review gives LiW the George Bush style benefit of low expectations. I was half expecting the devil in a bottle. Balance the low expectations from The Guide with the stratospheric expectations set by the Creed press mythology (yacht, 5 year world search, exotic ingredients…) and LiW could only wind up a head-scratcher. Turns out it’s a bit of a tempest in a teapot actually.

Floral blend, sweet synthetic woods. Loud, but otherwise not particularly remarkable for either its heights or its horrors. There’s something about a sweet yet acrid linear floral, though, that suggests personal product scenting. Shampoo or conditioner or the like. LiW seems designed along the lines of a hygienic or grooming product.

LiW wins by driving down the middle of the road and avoiding both high and low expectations.

Very subtle and almost not there. But it smells like a bad showergel or citrsuy soap. Not so pleasant.

Hi.

Naturally elegant and surprisingly pleasant.LOVE IN WHITE evokes prestige,a commitment to fashion, luxury,and the finer things that life has to offer.It has a distinctive scent and for those ladies out there that want a soft but yet special scent. Feminine,Fresh,Masterpiece,Elegant,Clean,Floral, Exquisite and Surprisingly Delicate Winner.

The initial burst of orange compliments rose the overtones of magnolia itself,always pitched at the right scale,garlanded by other white flowers and a subtle and soft base,retaining the perfect pitch of voice of a sophisticated,to-the-manor-born- lady who wants a soft spring&summer scent to accompany her most precious moments.Totally jasmine in the heart and vanilla in the base notes are more prominent here.

LOVE IN WHITE is not overwhelming,just subtle enough to grab the attention of others.This extraordinary perfume would make a great gift for any occasion.In my opinion it is the perfume you can wear on lunch dates or evening dates with close ones and sure you will be complimented for it.Anyway you can never go wrong with CREED perfumes if you are a real perfume lover.

Sillage?Lovely.

Longevity?Excellent on my skin.

7.5/10

I tested this in a department store the other day and really wasn't overly impressed at all! It's an inoffensive, very floral perfume which is nice but not exactly a standout and it doesn't smell dissimilar to floral scents I've either had or tried over the years. I also tried the Creed perfume in the bright pink bottle which I also thought was nice enough but really nothing special. Both of these perfumes lasted for only a dismal few hours on my skin so the longevity seems to be very poor. For the hefty price tags (over £100 per bottle here in England) I would expect these perfumes to be much more standout, unique smelling, long lasting scents but they're really not - and to my nose these two were the best of the selection of Creed perfumes at the department store where I tested them. I thought that all the others didn't smell pleasant at all ! !

I dropped my jaw off, when I found out that White in Love has been crowned as one of CREED's best sales for younger women! Say whattt??

IMO, it's so Davidoff Coolwater Women gone badly!!! With this price, I think you might want to stocked up Davidoff Coolwater Women for years, let it stinks and...Voillaaa, you've got yourself CREED's White in Love in bargain!! Such a joke..., LOL!!!

Absolutely the best fragrance i've ever worn!
Profumo meraviglioso..

This smells like a fabulous, rich, and stylish woman with lots of class!!! I plan to purchase one day!

When you have a brand like this that is supposed to be for kings, and queens and so on (not so exclusive I need to say, since I could afford it ;))....The scent was good, of course I could tell it is high quality hand-made, the smell lasted for a couple days in my t-shirt...and it smell like citric with rice. Nice.

I finally got to try this in a department store. My initial response was, oh it's an overdose of zingy florals. I changed my mind when the perfume had mellowed for about an hour and I was impressed by the enduring elegant iris. I'm not sure this perfume is really me, I wish it were, but this leaves me feeling a little cold and dispassionate. Still, I can't get that lingering iris note out of mind. I may have to revisit this fragrance in the near future...

Very soft and I agree with prettyliscious: delicate. It has this soft fresh laundry feel about it, but in a romantic and airy kind of way, not synthetic and blunt. It seems to match my skin very well and I could absolutely imagine myself wearing this on a breezy summerday, wearing -hard to guess- white. If you want a cheaper smell-alike, try Sea Island Cotton by Bath & Bodyworks. They both really have the same vibe, though the quality of love in white is much better of course (longlivity, depth, etc.; but what do you expect of such a pricey perfume!)

first sniff...Delicate... then as it settle down... I smell elegance, feminine... then the dry down smell change into an eccentric & exotic scent... the smell change as it last longer on your skin...very unpredictable and definitely not boring. Now I understand why Angelina Jolie & First Lady Michelle Obama love this scent. It makes you feel unique and special ... and I love it...

I think that they meant for men to wear this. I think I can pull it off and I might try… so refreshing and nice. I don’t get detergent at all.

This smells like a laundromat, soapy and watery. I like soapy scents but this is just too, too much! Then this weird, milk/rice/vanilla smell kicks in. Yep, it smells like that watery rice pudding they serve in hospitals. I don't smell any of the fruits and flowers others mentioned. This has longevity from hell: it never washes off, you have to let it wear off. Proof positive that a big price tag does not guarantee a great perfume.

unfortunate chemistry must be, it smells like detergent on my skin. :(((

Love In White

Difficult to review. Must be tested on skin. Disastrously different on paper; it must be heated. It has presence. The opening is intense and if you smell it too deeply at first, it becomes hard to get an impression of the main part of the scent which only takes a minute or so to come forth (Same thing that happens when you’ve smelled too many perfumes one after the other, it numbs the nose to the true scent). So for this review, I sprayed on my wrist, I held it far away from my face, I walked around while it settled so that my sense of smell would still be clear, and then I took it in.

Orange peel. Natural orange peel. Bitter, refreshing, and then there were flowers. But not just a few flowers. It was more like the strength you would get if you were surrounded. But it wasn’t bad, it was just a very full smell. And ten minutes later, the orange is still there with them, it is an interesting pairing, the orange and flowers.

I know that the reviews out there for Love In White are seriously divided, love it or hate it. But the thing about Love In White is that it isn’t quite as straight forward as some might be expecting. It isn’t light. It isn’t sickly sweet, either. It isn’t toxic or disturbing. But you have to like floral scents to appreciate this because flowers play a strong part in the heart notes and they do not dissipate for some time. You also have to like orange peel. If you’re not sure about that, smell an orange before breaking it open, because the orange note in love in white is very true to life, but maybe a tad warmer.

I was hesitant to try this because of the mixed reviews and the price, so I bought this sample and I may repurchase in something bigger. It does not disgust me (sometimes I have sickening reactions to perfumes, but so far I am impressed with Creed because I find their notes to be so natural) and it is actually wearable.

The dry-down is lightly spiced. Vanilla is so subtle, blending into what may be the sandalwood. Fresh, warm, like fresh laundry and orange.

I am liking this fragrance. It keeps changing all the way through, and it clings to the skin in a way that isn’t like other perfumes. It almost blends with the skin, it becomes very personalized. It doesn’t smell like I sprayed on synthetics and they’re just shooting off of me until they disappear. No, this is just so... unpredictable. It blends with the heat of my skin, with my chemistry, it is comfortable.

I had high expectations for this fragrance (largely based on Angelina Jolie being reported wearing it). And I was spectacularly disappointed. The opening "freshness" that everyone speaks of is, to me, very similar to Cool Water by Davidoff. To my nose, it is light and aquatic, slightly floral... like flowers left to soak in a bucket of water. And then this cloying, heavy note rears its ugly head. Is that the rice? If it is, I'm staying 10ft away from anything with that note. The bearable aquatic freshness would float around me and then I would turn my head or wave my arm and that horrid cloying note would smack me in the face like a wet rag.

People, my recommendation: don't waste $245+tax on something that smells like a gross combination of "Cool Water" and rice. There are plenty of beautiful fresh fragrances out there, no need to torture yourself with this one.

I was surprised to enjoy this one as I usually dislike fragrances with vanilla in them. Instead of vanilla in the drydown I got patchouli, which I love in small doses.

ho letto che Angelina Jolie indossa questa fragranza

I had an accident. I sprayed Love in white and Tuberose indiana at the same day by mistake; and it became total suprice! Love in white changed into this warm and cosy aromatic scent. I now use them together quite often. The Best in wintertime!

I was enchanted by ComfyCat's passionate review and I can certainly attest that I too consider this to be the epitome of cleanliness.

I am thwarted from further appreciation however by my skin chemistry which is determined to turn this jasmine/orange combination into washing powder (a la Pure Poison all over again).

To be fair, Love in White is much closer to the dreamy bubble bath spectrum than brutal industrial detergent and I *am* able to pick out a hint of narcissus, albeit a highly sanitised one. But there is no milkiness or vanilla for me here, just soapy white florals.

Thanks to dear Sherapop I had the pleasure of testing Love in white and other samples from Creed.Instantly when I smelled this on my skin a picture came on my mind,running up a hill with beautiful wild flowers,cyclamens,lilies of the valley,narcissus,jasmine along with rice vanilla powder.Love in white is the corridor to innocence.

Very weird on my skin; a massive, almost unbearable squeeze of orange oil, followed by dense cheval cheese and clotted cream, loads of salt mixed with baking soda and then--BOOM--PETROL, petrol, gas, oil, turpentine---just a weirdly astringent, exhaust-like smell. Smells like a vintage gas station in Florida. I love other Creed scents, so I can't imagine this is how it reads for everyone. It must be a case of bad compatibility with my body chemistry. Good luck!

A floral, oriental scent love in white features
top notes of orange zest then blending into
rice husk, iris, white jasmine, magnolia,
daffodils and rose. Finishing of with
sandalwood, vanilla and ambergris. White
perfume is a delightfully luxurious scent of
rare and high-quality ingredients from five
continents: Orange Zest from Spain; Iridescent
Rice Husk from Tonkin; Iris from Egypt; White
Jasmine from Italy; Daffodils from the French
Rivera; Magnolia from Guatemala; Bulgarian
Rose; Vanilla from the Island of Java;
Ambergris and Sandalwood from India....

This scent made my hands smell as if I had been squeezing oranges all morning to make juice! This is an appealing sensation, but it's a lot less expensive to just stick to the oranges, isn't it? (plus you get the vitamin c boost!)

Longevity was quite disappointing, unfortunately- a 1 cc sample just wasn't enough to fully experience this fragrance- it just doesn't seem to have enough oomph-

Some people must have some classy laundry powders! I loved this at first sniff. The Iris is dominant to me and lovely it is.

I hated this scent the minute it came out, probably because I had high expectations for a mellow, romantic, creamy, dreamy floral.
Instead I found a disturbingly pungent, like high-pitched concentrated detergent powder for clothes.
It's probably a well done blend like almost all Creed and it probably changes a lot according to different chemistries. Maybe on Mrs.Obama it smells divine. On me it smells terrible laundry & ironing with synthetical floral spray for ironing.
I find some resemblance with MR Essence, another disturbing
"laundrette" type of scent. What's the hype about laundrettes?
I can't stand soapy scents.
Old soapies smell like a mixture of dirt and soap. New soapies smell just pungent soap, extra-clean, extra polished, no sensual skin scent or round feminine drydown. Is it a new way of being politically correct? Aseptical, cleaned, exfoliated, perfect woman. Perfect woman, perfect mom, perfect co-worker, only killing me with her perfume.

I certainly appreciate the abundant controversy circulating about Creed LOVE IN WHITE, for it is a curious creation indeed! The opening is to my nose an entirely masculine scent. It must be an olfactory illusion, but I smell something like juniper and/or pine and/or fir!

This aromaticity slowly evolves over about an hour to produce one of the most scrumptious and compelling drydowns ever. I could develop a serious addiction to this stuff: it's a clean floral-woody combination which I find delightful to breathe in.

Had I given up after, say, thirty minutes, my evaluation would have been negative, since I am not that fond of the version of soap here presented--a bit too close to the CLEAN line for my tastes. However, patience really pays off in this case.

What I absolutely do not comprehend is how LOVE IN WHITE could not be listed as a unisex scent. My first reaction was, in fact: "What an odd name for a masculine scent!" I imagine that the detractors were disappointed by the disparity between their expectations of a perfume with such a name and what LOVE IN WHITE really is. On the other hand, there must be plenty of guys around who have been pleasantly surprised by this utterly unique and refreshing composition! With great staying power, too!

Nice! For me this scent is indeed clean, creamy, soapy, floral, fresh and crisp all at once, with the magnolia being in the centrestage and a few soft notes just gently floating around her.
I would not call it oriental, but rather "green floral". It is elegant and confident and assuring somehow, but also really light and carefree and I can imagine that it is a match made in heaven for someone like Michelle Obama. A perfect scent for a very well to do girl next door (OK, more than "very well", but still - someone with the "nextdoorgirly" charm :-))! However, I am puzzled as to why would Angelina Jolie - the woman with reputation of a slightly dark natured man eater/vamp with insatiable appetite - would chose to wear this perfectly innocent (for some even boring) fragrance...
I would purchase this if it cost one quarter of its real price, because to buy a fragrance for this money, I would have to be crazy about it. This one - I like.

Put me in a dress and call me Michelle Obama. I don't care - I WILL have this fragrance. This is simply beautiful. This is between feminine and unisex (leaning more towards feminine). The sillage is moderate and the lasting power is pretty decent. This is very clean, yet creamy. The predominant notes are magnolia, rice and vanilla, though I can detect the orange. I think that the iris is more of a "texture" for this composition. As for the comparisons to soap, that's a plus in my opinion. In fact, show me the soap that this smells like and I'll buy tons of it!!! Any man who enjoys Prada (Amber Pour Homme) could/should appreciate this one. It's a must-have...

This perfume in my opinion is lovely and very classy. I smell flowers and soft vanilla. However, I prefer Love in Black. Creed in my opinion are masters of perfume, their notes always smell fresh and beautifully blended. The only problem is that their perfumes are very expensive.

this really smells like detergent or a vile floral musky shampoo, is vile, one of the worst that creed have ever made, horrible...soft floral detergent + shampoo + nothing = love in white.. creed have better, better, offerings.....

Light-hearted yet grounded and well blended... Full of white florals and airy nuances w/ sandalwood and vanilla for depth. Very well done!!!

Oh how to describe heaven. I just found it in Love in White. It is sooooooooooooo good. It smells like white flowers, mixed with some tropical notes. For me Love in white is beautifull blended and I love it.

I really cannot understand why people are so negative about this lovely sexy and unique fragrance. It is just amazingly. The bottle is also amazing. I get compliments all the time and my man loves it.

I got this as a present from my boyfriend. It is so nice. I find it stylish, soft, very sexy and a bit different. It is love (in white) for me........ and let's face it, who does not want to smell like Angelina Jolie ?

I got a few samples of this and I LOVE it! It smells so pretty! Not sexy, but just very pretty...perfect for the coming spring. I want a bottle but I don't like Creed's pricetag lol

i sooo want to try this!! i am going to find a sample or decant.

i read that Angelina Jolie wears this, so i ordered a sample..its quite nice, a powdery floral and i can smell the vanilla after a while which makes it quite nice and not so shampooey! i would consider buyng this.

Love in White shocked my imagination of love and in white! What I got from it is pure bathroom/kitchen horror!

The start is really sharp, a little bit faint fruity, like a really bad 80's cheap shampoo. Really synthetic in a bad way.
Then it soon becomes greener, and less the sweetness, the notes seem alright, but the combination smells really like celery plus cold cooked rice. Somehow I felt like to vomit.
Then the dry down, it's much better only in comparison with the terrible top and middle horror. It's slightly milder due to the vanilla, but unfortunately I can't stop but making some scent association with dust, chalk and glue.

I really don't think Oriental Floral is the right group for Love in White. It's more like a failed synthetic floral green to me.
If you are looking for something white, romantic, sensual, maybe had Shalimar or something similar in you mind when approaching this one; well, my suggestion is: run away from this Creed perfume, seriously.

The narcissus doesnt agree with me...it gives a sharp beginning to the scent..it is very floral in my opinion..like marc jacobs almost...

I have this and this smells just like detergent to me.I just didn't like the bottle is adorable.I just don't get Creed its all hype.

Love in White was my signature scent between 2005 and 2007. It has the loveliest drydown I've ever seen in a fragrance! I'm not a fan of the aquatic top notes, but they do settle shortly after and complement the rest of the composition beautifully. I like to spritz it on spots that stay covered by clothing during the day, specially on my back. My skin warms it up and the scent gets soaked by the fabric, so I get wonderful wafts throughout the day. It feels like my own private paradise. For some reason, it seems better suited to cooler months, as I tried wearing it during the Summer and it felt "off". It's a tenacious scent, but it also seems to lie close to the skin. Simply stunning.

Found a gently used bottle of Creed Love in White at a good price and snapped it up, unsniffed. I can tell this is a quality fragrance, but it just really wasn't right for me.

The first wearing revealed an abundance of fresh aquatic and "detergent" (for lack of a better word) notes that dried down eventually to something soft and slightly musky. I gave it a couple more wearings just to see if I changed my mind. It just seemed a little unbalanced on my skin, and a bit sharp.

I had the best results when I layered it over an orange-scented body lotion. The extra orange softened the more synthetic detergent aromas and made the fragrance much more wearable.

Pretty, but alas, not for me. It's on its way to a fellow Fragrantican who can hopefully wear and appreciate it better than I could.

How can a fragrance feature both a unique milky green orange zest note yet still be boring?? Some femme fatales here are a bit too much in love with their guerlinade-loaded Guerlains and can't get enough of the same old same old when its a house they idolize. Love in White has a healthy does of white flowers but it also unique in that it features the best rice note in a fragrance which together with an orange top note and a woody vanilla base turns it into something special. A modern hit and fairly unique. Compared to recent synthetic messes like Hypnotic Poison and Insolence its a total success.

Horrid (beautiful bottle, even with a bow (!), but has pungent celery seed overtone (green?) with underlying stinch of dusty-stank, sweet, nose-pinching powderiness that, well, really bothers me. Did I say "Horrid?" Oh, yes, I did.

I agree; the bottle is pretty but the scent? It's clean, I'll give you that. Smells to me like those little paper wrapped soaps in hotels....a cheaper hotel at that. Maybe I should try mixing it with something "warm", like Omnia or even plain musk?

Worst purchase ever. Totally agree with Aeternitas. I keep saying it smells of old soap. Cheep old soap, and gives me a headache whenever I open the cap.

stinks too smelly like an ashtray

The bottle is a keeper and looks decorative on my dresser but the contents is a miss. I admire the House of Creed but this one is a disappoinment. I think the combo of rice and magnolia create the unpleasant creamy blend. It's Blah!

fresh, oriental, and if I didn't mix the bottles with men's version of some'mountain water' could be unisex.. Innofencive. The price should have been be at least less by third. Simply can't justify the smell for this price. Though nice, but 'flat' scent

Don't believe the hype! To flowery and strong and not well put together.

I'm bored by this Creed fragrance and slightly nauseated. It smells like faint detergent and cheap unscented soap. There's also a strange milkiness in it, which must be the vanilla and rice. I do not smell the orange or iris, just the magnolia, rice, and vanilla. It's a very dull, boring unoriginal perfume and is not worthy of a Creed bottle! If you would, however, like to wear this fragrance, it's best for summer.