Virgin Island Water by Creed

belletresor

I wanted to like anything Creed, but am so glad I purchased a small decant to try before spending the huge $$ on this! It just did not excite me. I waited and waited for it to develop into something more noticeable but that never happened. I ended up washing it off and assuming my nose just isn't sophisticated enough to run with the Creed crowd!

I would say that it is "pleasant" and definitely has a nice, fresh, coconutty, tropical feel to it - not on the sweet side, more fresh like if you were breathing in the brisk ocean air and caught a whiff of coconut and citrus. Again, pleasant enough, but doesn't stand out in any way. Not that I want a *loud* fragrance or something that is overwhelming....it's just that it was so completely UNDERwhelming. Maybe my expectations were too high???

Wasn't horrible like the other two Creed scents I tried, but definitely did not knock my socks off....and for the price there is NO WAY I would spend that to be underwhelmed.

Migotka

Hoist the colours!

This was one of the most unexpected encounters for my nose with past few months. Used to the dullness of the ordinary, it was surprised by this mixture of past, adventure and voyage.

Virgin Island Water for me is a scent of a times when the profession of pirate was blooming. Smell of exotic cargo loaded onto the ships, aromatic spices and unrefined sugar. Smell of a tavern with the rum generously pouring from the wooden barrels. Smell of the tropics with their fresh air, salty water, hot sand. Smell of a coconum milk dripping from a nut that just fell down.

This fragrance does awaken in my such a longing for travel that I dont think I will be trying it out too often for the time being.

nathalieZ

it isa breezy, light citrusy scent, like a walk on the boardwalk...nice, ocean like , summery scent..I cant put my finger on it but it is very pleasant!!!

JeanMaurice

I bought my Creeds at:

fragranceNet.com

always REAL stuff (no copy) and at a fairly good price, if you compare other online sites.

By the way, lucky scent is good for sampling but their prices are WAY too HIGH! You can have Virgin Island Water 120mL (4 oz) for 145-150$ at fragranceNet.com, and 210$ at lucky scent. So for 60$ less you can have a full 120mL bottle!

HOTRODS BY JP

yes i agree with the person be careful where you buy from ,yes creed can be very exspensive,but if you get it from a,aouthorized seller then you got the real thing so be careful,i purchased this from neimanmarcus,and i so happy i did,i dont usaly like crisp clean fresh kida citrus scent but thi is different ,it comes out kinda crisp fresh, but the drydown is fresh littlesweet that i like lime coconut and other notes makes this fragrance rock,again creed has a hit this makes you smell very fresh and not to sweet just right i started with a,small bottle its almost gone,next will be a big bottle the best fresh,crisp scent that i have purchased,and i will pay the higher price knowing it the real,bottle of creed i give this 5 stars

JeanMaurice

Please don't buy any Creed on eBay. Almost ALL are fakes there!

Buy from a real internet shop.

JeanMaurice

Again, alomost all Creed I bought gave me 100% satisfaction.
This one is a chic, fresh, modern, all year long and one of the better fragrance of the 2000's!


9,5/10

poppy_vanderbilt

YES!..Finally a Creed perfume i love!...i was getting worried wondering what all the flack was about this perfumery because i didn't get it...but this is brilliant...i mean i can actually smell the ocean salt in this!...very unique for a fragrance but the smell might be very familar to some... kind of what skin smells like after a swim in a beautiful Caribbean Ocean...but no tropical fruits or sickly sweet coconut in this...nooo...just a faint hint of Ocean clean skin with a little lime and warm buttery sun...it even reminds me a little of aftershave used in an 19th century high end barber shop...they use to use a lot of lime in their mens products back then....Thank you Creed....oh and it's unisex..or if it isn't it should be.

MirabelleJee

Virgin Island water is a lime garden full of the trees with ripe fruits, some of the trees are blossoming.
It opens on my skin with strong fresh natural lime with a little sweetness on background. M-m-m! I adore this perfume.
Very long lasting on clothes with pleasant smell.

Brumen

hibiscus? no no no.....tiaré or gardenia tahitiensis the tropical flower mixed in coconut oil to produce monoi oil. And i don't feel rhum and sugar, but citrus notes, lemon peel exactly that reminds italian "limoncello"

it's a great scent and i love it, last hours and hours, for day, for night, 4 seasons....it's a CREED.

KJanicki

It's not subtle. It's not an ethereal dream. This is a fun vacation fling. This is meeting a tanned hottie on a carribean beach. His skin is salty, hebuys you a lime dacquiri, and you dance the night away with him while wearing creamy tropical flowers in your hair.

mirror

Lovers and haters. That's what I tought when I read the other reviews. Unfortunately when this happenes it is impossible to get your own picture based upon such strongly sided reviews.
Therefor I will try to keep mine as neutral and unisex as possible.

First off it is a caipirinha inspired fragrance. Inspired because when one smells it they will not feel any urge to drink it. It is clearly recogniced as perfume. Whatsoever it might make one or another think of caipirinha.
Although Virgin Island Water is much more than caipirinha let's start from there:
Imagine the taste of caipirinha as a fragrance, add some musk, unsweetened coconut and last but not least bergamot.
This will get you very close to the smell keep in mind that in this case those ingredients together build a new whole. If you don't know the ingredienty you will hardly be able to detect any of them (most possibly only the citrus).
When your brain can't connect the smell to a specific ingretient it will connect it to personal things; experiences, memories, emotions... It will take the closest it can find and for every person this will be a different one.
Now it is no surprise that some will find it masculine, some feminine, some find it sweet although it isn't and some compare it to toilet air freshner while others feel like they are sitting on a tropical beach.
My advice is try before you buy. Especially because it is not exactly cheap.
But I do recommend to try it to find out your individual and personal connection. You might end up loving, finding a new signature fragrance but you might just as well hate the picture your brain draws for you...

shamus1

What the hell is this?! A COCONUT fragrance?!! This is just awful. Who would ever spray this on their skin?? It smells it would be more appropriate as a bathroom/toilet spray for when a guest stinks up the place. But why pay $120 for that?! Come to think of it, why not go to your local supermarket, pick up an aerosol can of Glade air freshener and spray that on yourself - it'll smell the same and cost about 1/25 the price.

Inselaffe

For the four hours that VIW existed, I was intoxicated by its seraphic melody of tropical notes. The opening fusion of citrus and coconut sets the tone for its entire lifespan, and the only evolution involves the citrus gaining the ascendancy after the first hour. As a warm weather fragrance, this is almost peerless, but there are obvious caveats. Given its price and brevity, this remains a luxury item, an indulgence. Nevertheless, for its sheer joie de vivre, I lovingly applaud it.

Unikko

This is my new love! Great blend of tart lime and soft coconut and very long lasting too. Not too sweet not too masculine, just a perfect tropical mix that makes you believe you are on a tropical island. And let me add that I'm not usually a fan of coconutty of fruity perfumes. This one is different to your usual sweet-fruitpunch-tropical-island-perfume.I bought the giant 120 ml bottle, and it's well worth of the price.

donny54

Fragrance as sweet as a candy. The scent last just half an hour. After it seems just like a bath cream.
If you want some fragrance that really make you feel on a tropical beach try REM or... much, much better ETOILE DE REM. Even if I'm a male and Etoile is a fragrance for women I wear it often and many, many males like it and want to know its name. SHHHH... it's a secrete!

drummerboy1986

Ok I love this fragrance, but unlike Issey miyake, I just finished this bottle, and I don't konw if I'm going to get this again....not sure.

drummerboy1986

I love this stuff. I don't normally do this but when I tried this at a perfume shop, I already had on a fragrance and just so happedned it was Tommy Bahama: set sail south seas, and it didn't clash, it went together nicely. This is definitely a good buy. I STRONGLY recomend this.

KJanicki

This is my "pretend I am on a Caribbean beach" fragrance, when I am feeling trapped in Toronto. It smells even better on my husband.