Silver Mountain Water (for men)

andyray

I love the blackcurrant, but where's the silver mountain?...

I seem to recollect that this fragrance was released in the mid-90s, and when GQ magazine did a feature on Creed, Silver Mountain Water was mentioned as (alledgedly) it was the fragrance worn by David Bowie. (Perhaps other Fragrantica members will confirm or deny this).

At this time, and having already entered my 'Creed' phase of perfume wearing and development, by way of Green Irish Tweed; Bois de Portugal; Orange Spice, etc., I was suitably impressed by yet another gem from this House.

Silver Mountain Water had all the hallmark Creed qualities: the Millesime strength and its new, white, house bottle; the big title with its connotations of landscape, feeling, mood and enigma; and so on and so forth.

Revisiting it a decade-plus later, it still carries a real punch and is an intriguing and wonderfully opulent perfume.

It appears to have relatively little pyramid of chord demarcation: the theme or heart is announced almost from the word 'go'.

For an aromatic fragrance I find it incredibly heavy: it's more a post-Jacomo de Jacomo spicey/oriental perfume in my opinion. Moreover, it is the blackcurrant and violet notes that sweetly dominate this fragrance, rather than any 'silver/water' effect.

Indeed, I've not been up that many mountains in my life, so any sense of 'cool', 'cold', 'icey', must be engendered by the title itself and the associated ideal or images of what it must be like 'up mountains'.

There is also a paradox, namely, that the dominance of the flower/blackcurrant heart notes aren't really what I would typically associate with mountains, water, or the colour, silver.

Hey ho! I'm perhaps being a bit picky and pendantic...

The bass notes go on and on..and on...and this is almost when the fragrance becomes interesting for me, as there's a luscious, warm blackcurrant patchouli vibe that emerges, and I assume it's the green tea note that confers a degree of freshness in the perfume's twilight moments.

I rather like Silver Mountain Water as a perfume, though not necessarily on me. I suspect that it might actually be more at home on a woman's skin as it's almost too rich, and the proximity of its sheer power, on me, tends to obscure any nuances and finesse of what is an unusual and very well-made fragrance.

Andyray

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Hooked on it the first time I use it. Never want to buy other perfumes anymore

Leo

The best cologne from creed...
I do love it... love it so much...

You can smell the ice of the peak of the mountain.
It freezes you..

A fabulous cologne!!